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Perdido Street Station by China Miéville

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Perdido Street Station (New Crobuzon, #1)
by China Miéville (Goodreads Author)

Natalie's review

Feb 11, 11

4 of 5 stars

bookshelves: sci-fi, horror, fantasy-adventure, adventure-fiction

Read from February 01 to 11, 2011

Perdido Street Station is taking me straight to the GR Books that Should be Made into Movies List!

China Miéville should should play the Tansell role and work on the screenplay and monster design with Guillermo del Toro.

Because the movie needs to have lots of action to match the book Guy Ritchie or maybe Matthew Vaughn should direct, del Toro could co-produce, and play Motley during filming, and spend tons of time on the monsters that way?

David Bowie should play Andrej.

Andy Serkis could play Lemuel.

Paul Bettany could play Yagharek.

Parminder Nagra could play Lin.

I am not quite sure who is right for Issac? It will be tricky to cast him correctly -young enough, portly enough, bright enough, virile enough.

Jodie Foster would be a good Derkhan.

James D'Arcy should play David.

It would be a hell of a movie!

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“My sustenance is information. My interventions are hidden. I increase as I learn. I compute, so I am.”
― China Miéville, Perdido Street Station

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02/02/2011	page 208	33.0%	"Sort of like Günter Grass meets Neil Gaiman? Am I getting that wrong or right? Hmm. Fits what i know of Miéville but there is something more here too. Maybe it is the honesty of the female expatriate voice? Not sure if I ever heard that in Grass or Gaiman quite like I can hear it here?"
02/05/2011	page 384	60.0%	"This is an imaginatively overwhelming story -it pushes the limits of the reader's imagination to realize and orient themself to the sensory details and boroughs of Miéville's Bas Lag world."
02/05/2011	page 384	60.0%	"What makes it all work is something Miéville said in an interview with Lou Anders back in 2005 "In all the books, there is some kind of moral or political resolution, but it always comes at a cost" That cost, coupled with Miéville unapologetic admission that "I’m in this fucking business for the monsters" keeps this boat rocking and me turning the pages!"
02/07/2011	page 449	70.0%	""My sustenance is information. My interventions are hidden. I increase as I learn. I compute, so I am.""
02/09/2011	page 491	77.0%	"I keep expecting to finish this book and I don't! Parts five and six are dragging for me even though there's plenty of action. Weird. I seem to be able to only get through 20-490 pp at a time in this part of the book before setting it aside. I'm only 9 pp from parts 7 & 8 Crisis &Judgement so theoretically the page turning will pick up around there!"