I think it's safe to say that Mieville fever has spread pretty far across goodreads, and I was reluctant to pick up one of his books for that same reason.Surely no author could live up to that hype?Well, this book was pretty enjoyable, but I'm not quite raving about it. Still, a pretty safe starter ...
I'd seen some of Ceridwen's reviews of China Mieville, and recently was looking at his page here on goodreads where I saw an interview with him where he discussed this book a bit and the things he had to say about trying to write a mystery story intrigued me so I bought this. I didn't know what to e...
Wow. Okay, I'm definitely fangirling for China Miéville. I love his limitless imagination, the skill to effortlessly make an unbelievable premise feel real, and ability to turn any setting and place into a true protagonist.SOME SPOILERS MAY HAVE CREEPED IN SOMEHOW, SO BE WARNEDThis is my first non-B...
So I was teaching a big lecture class on human trafficking today and a student made an observation about walking around in one's life and seeing but not seeing other people. I asked, "How many of you have read Miéville's The City and the City? Not a one raised a hand. I am almost recovered from my s...
holy son of a mother... This book was messed up. The plot, of a murdered women was excellent but the story surround it was not. There were not only grammatically issues within the book but WAY too much swearing. Not only that, there were things that were not explained and you as the reader just had ...
The City and the City starts like most crime novels with the discovery of a murder victim; in this case a young woman in the vaguely Eastern European city of Beszel. Inspector Tyador Borlu of the extreme crime squad is called in to investigate, and a lead soon points to Beszel neighboring city-state...
It's a lengthy derridean joke, right?Copula Hall pulls us into Margins of Philosophy regarding the "supplement of copula," which opines that the "fusion of the grammatical and lexical functions of 'to be' certainly bears an essential relation to the history of metaphysics and to everything coordinat...
After being on my to-check-out authors list for quite a while, I finally decided to pick up this book during my London book shopping spree.Despite being shoved into the sci-fi department at the bookstore, 'The City & The City' is more of a detective/thriller novel with some thought-provoking ideas o...
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