The City and The City was my first Miéville book to make it to my TBR pile, but I’ve got Bad News. It’ll be awhile until my TBR stack will see another Miéville… I’ve found it wanting, mostly. It seemed like an ambitious exercise that was poorly executed. For the most part, it’s a withered novel, and...
The City & The City: A Review in Three Parts Part I – CSI: Beszél I picked up The City & the City because I've been trying to explore genres lately. Here was an author, highly spoken of, whose novel was part sci-fi, part fantasy. I had high hopes. What I found when I opened The City & the City w...
This book has been causing thoughts since I finished it a couple of days ago. About cities, and what we see and don't see. And how those kinds of seeing are conditioned. And then something happened yesterday that was both funny and a little frightening, illustrating exactly how much I might be miss...
Mieville is the sort of author I expect and want to like, but I didn't feel the love with "The Scar" (http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72921519). This second foray into his works was far more rewarding, and my third, Embassytown, was even more so (there are some interesting parallels, too, which...
A good detective/whodunnit set in a fantasy/sci-fi (I couldn't decide which) parallel contemporary eastern European city/country.Might be a bit slow for some.
DAMN YOU GOODREADS!!!!I just wrote (in my opinion) a brilliant review, and now it's gone, lost, unsaved, vanished, disappeared, dissipated, nonextant, FINITO and I do not have it in me to rewrite. I'll try and recapture it tomorrow. DAMN YOU AAAHHHHHHJust, just read the book. In the meantime.
Debo reconocer que tengo varios problemas con este libro. Siempre sabes lo que va a pasar y cuando no lo sabes es porque no estás entendiendo nada. Pero es obvio que Miéville usa clichés y voltea el género de cabeza completamente a propósito. Al final, no puedo dudar que me atrapó y me entretuvo muc...
China's a bit hard to pin down, isn't he? I'd heard so much about his mastery of fantasy-centered weirdness, so I was prepared for my mind to travel to uncharted, otherworldly realms. The City & The City does give us the fractured city of Beszel-Ul Qoma, a setting the likes of which I've never encou...
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