A fairy tale steam-punk masterpiece, set in snowy New York City in a Belle Epoque that never was. There's a charming thief, a story within a story and a horse that flies. It's a great big hulking huge book and it took forever to read, but only because the writing was so exquisite that I had to stop ...
The book gets 5 stars, the audiobook gets 1.Go buy the print book, but do NOT listen to this sing-song, idiotic, evisceration of a truly splendid novel. The only way the narrator could be worse is if he dressed up in purple tights and sang it to a Gilbert and Sullivan score. What a horrible disappoi...
A little too deep-thinking for my taste, but the writing and imagery was beautiful. I think that if I appreciated cities at all I would have gotten a lot more out of it. Anyway, it's still a great book.
I didn't like this book! In fact about 2/3 of the was through I asked myself why, why am I reading this? I couldn't care less about any of the characters. So I didn't finish it, and that is really unusual for me. I absolutely adored the author's book A Soldier of the Great War. What a let down this...
A fairy tale, steam-punk masterpiece set in snowy New York City, in a Belle Epoque that never was. There's a charming thief, a story within a story and a horse that flies. It's a great big hulking huge book and it took forever to read, but only because the writing was so exquisite that I had to stop...
The language of this book is lyrical, complex, elevated, and dense. Sometimes too much so. Poetry is sparse on the page for a reason. Its hard to read 700 plus pages of such extremely evocative language and actually stay engaged with it. At times I found myself getting irritated by just how much...
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