Chris's review of Perdido Street Station
Perdido Street Station by China Miéville
I picked this up a while ago, but hadn't read it pretty much because it was a massive, 800+ page tome of urban fantasy, and the last time I got into that, I wound up in City of Saints and Madmen by Jeff Vandermeer. While Vandermeer's book wasn't a bad one, it was a tough slog in places.
Anyway, I needn't have worried. While this books is remarkable huge, it's a swift read - well-paced, interesting, creative and clever, which are all good things to have in a book.
But what's more, this book made me wish something unusual - it made me wish that I'd spent the last ten or fifteen years of my life studying and practicing fantasy art. I mean damn. Every fantasy writer comes up with weird ideas for the denizens of their world, and a lot of them are good and interesting, but Miéville has gone to some unexpected places - women with beetles for heads, walking ca...more
Anyway, I needn't have worried. While this books is remarkable huge, it's a swift read - well-paced, interesting, creative and clever, which are all good things to have in a book.
But what's more, this book made me wish something unusual - it made me wish that I'd spent the last ten or fifteen years of my life studying and practicing fantasy art. I mean damn. Every fantasy writer comes up with weird ideas for the denizens of their world, and a lot of them are good and interesting, but Miéville has gone to some unexpected places - women with beetles for heads, walking ca...more
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