Miéville ’s merits populate the internet, so there is not much need to repeat what can easily be found elsewhere. The City & The City follows the efforts of a local detective unraveling a murder in true noir fashion but within the fascinating conjoined urban landscape of Miéville’s main character; ...
Oh my. Where to begin? I'm still not quite sure how I feel about this book. What attracted me to it in the first place was the premise: two cities in one place, but what separates them? It is largely because the answer to that question is so unclear that my response to this book is somewhat muddle...
More compelling as a concept than it is as a mystery. Though the central conceit is rather confusing at first, once you work out the logistics (and get used to Mieville's thesaurus-assisted writing style -- contumely, ossified, topolganger), it's really a lot of fun just to inhabit his world and con...
Too opaque for me. I want to try Un Lun Dunstill, but this is the second or third adult book I've tried, so I think I can safely say he's not my cuppa.
Best book I've read in years. It reads like Science Fiction, but it's not. It takes a while to figure out what's really happening in this story, but improbable as it is, there is nothing here that couldn't happen in any city in the world. China Miéville is a truly amazing author.
LEFTOVER--Only half-way through, but many thanks to Donald (re the author and this book in particular) and Brad--this is damn intriguing.AND ON TO THE NOW--finished. (And cut all that personal malarkey.) I believe I've posted the occasional snotty aside about the fantasy genre here, making some sw...
Why: Nancy Pearl describes it as "a police procedural set in neighboring, nearly identical cities. The catch is, these cities – Beszel and Ul Qoma – co-exist in the same physical space, and their separation ultimately depends on how well each city’s citizens do in ignoring the existence of the othe...
I was completely swept up in the plot of this book. The premise of the two cities geographically located in the same place but separated by learned and enforced psychological boundaries is absolutely fascinating and provides a new way to think about separations of class, race, ethnicity, etc. that ...
A well-written crime novel with a singularly fascinating central premise; the idea of two cities sharing the same physical space with a shadowy group overseeing daily life to ensure their complete logical separation from each other.The idea that two people could live right next door to each other 'g...
I had a lukewarm response to Mieville until I read Un Lun Dun. Prior to Un Lun Dun, I had read Perdido Street Station and The Scar. I enjoyed them, but they didn't really knock my socks off. Un Lun Dun I enjoyed more. I picked up this book on the strength of Un Lun Dun, and due to the fact that ...
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