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Weirdness and more weirdness! What a steampunk novel could be if directed by Quentin Tarantino on a Spike Lee joint. Chock full of striking images, such as these, acchhh! slake-moths!
Mieville has a way of getting inside your head, clamping on like a leech and sucking all of your mental juices , until you're ready to implode from the onslaught of mind-warping prose. It will take all your will power to pull yourself away and breathe in clear, clean air. Makes one wonder how the real-life Mievi ...more
Mieville has a way of getting inside your head, clamping on like a leech and sucking all of your mental juices , until you're ready to implode from the onslaught of mind-warping prose. It will take all your will power to pull yourself away and breathe in clear, clean air. Makes one wonder how the real-life Mievi ...more
I really liked this book. Great writing, great plot...but I had to dock it, because IMHO there was WAY too much description. Could have used editing!
Great book!
China Mieville's New Crobuzun is bursting with details - neighborhoods, architecture, slums & dumps & filth, dirtbags, and twenty types of corruption and villainy. A lot of grit, like say Neal Stephenson's London, but at least you don't have to keep looking at the map to figure out what's going on.
I gave it 4 stars because there was a shift in word usage about halfway through the book. Every noun got an adjective - the sack was "vile", the torpor "horrible", &tc. It wasn't Lovecraftia ...more
China Mieville's New Crobuzun is bursting with details - neighborhoods, architecture, slums & dumps & filth, dirtbags, and twenty types of corruption and villainy. A lot of grit, like say Neal Stephenson's London, but at least you don't have to keep looking at the map to figure out what's going on.
I gave it 4 stars because there was a shift in word usage about halfway through the book. Every noun got an adjective - the sack was "vile", the torpor "horrible", &tc. It wasn't Lovecraftia ...more
Started my love affair with Mieville's writing. <^_^>
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Feb 15, 2010
Boden Steiner
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