You don’t have to be crazy to read this book, but it helps.Nah, I jest. The basic idea of this book is not hard to understand, but it is a springboard to an extraordinary level of weirdness. The book is set in two cities that occupy the same geographical space. Imagine two cities existing side by si...
Tyador Borlu of Beszel's Extreme Crime Squad is assigned to the murder case of an unknown woman. To find her killer, Borlu must go to the neighboring city of Ul Qoma and team with Qussim Dhatt of the Murder Squad. Can the two detectives from different cultures figure out who the victim is and why ...
I watch a lot of cop shows - Law & Order, CSI, NCIS - and in all of these shows, there is invariably an episode or two where the FBI or some other entity comes into a case to argue about the jurisdiction. Of course, the mystery then takes 5 times longer to solve because no one can legally do any sle...
I found it hard to get started with this book. Part of it was my incredulity with the premise that a city can exists in the same space as another city. After reading other GR reviews, it turns out that this is a common aspect of Mieville novels. The other part was that I was a Mieville virgin, in...
The City and The City, is an amazingly rich and detailed book, when it is describing its two main characters: Besźel and Ul Qoma. The human characters in the book are largely flat and two dimensional. I never got into them or got emotionally attached. The same cannot be said for the cities (Besź...
I've known about this book for a couple of years and hesitated to read it. I was afraid it would be a disappointment. In a a way it was, but that's not because this wasn't an extremely well written story. It was fascinating and original. However - I suppose I'd been expecting to find out a little mo...
I find myself with a case of writer’s block regarding the writing of this review. I’m not sure what I want to say about The City & The City.I suppose my blockage results from a feeling of anticlimax more than anything else – I was expecting more based on the hype and rave reviews surrounding the boo...
by China MievilleOpening line--"I could not see the street or much of the estate."From the front flap: "When a murdered woman is found in the city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks to be a routine case for Inspector Tyador Borlu of the Extreme Crime Squad. But as he investigates, ...
I feel like I should have liked this book more - I might have if I hadn't been listening to it. As it was I found it very confusing and I'm still not sure exactly what was going on. Maybe someday I'll get the physical (or e-) book from the library and read it.
My pick for "best book I've read this year."The City & the City got nominations for both the World Fantasy Award and the Hugo Award; it won both the Arthur C. Clarke Award and the British Science Fiction Award for 2009. Regardless of this, I will still argue that this is neither a fantasy or a scien...
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