Perdido Street Station
China Mieville
The metropolis of New Crobuzon sprawls at the centre of its own bewildering world. Humans and mutants and arcane races throng in the gloom beneath its chimneys. A stranger has come, with a pocketfull of gold and an impossible demand, and soon the city is to be gripped by an alien terror.
Posted by krin5292 (29 weeks ago ) I have to admit I was nervous about approaching this book again. I had started reading it years ago, but didn't get far. This time, I kept going, and I'm glad I did. Perdido Street Station is a intensely descriptive book filled with so much detail about New Crobuzon and its inhabitants. Woven throughout is the story of Isaac and his quest to help Yagharek fly and what that quest ultimately leads to. It'll be a while before the images of this book leave me and I look forward to reading the next book in the series, The Scar.
Posted by Rokkitnite (1 year ago ) Set in the city of New Crobuzon, Perdido Street Station starts out rangy, beguiling and atmospheric. The language is rich and complex whilst remaining readable, and the plot rattles on at a fair old click.
Then, about halfway through the book, Mieville nose-dives into purple prose. Strong nouns and verbs give way to surfeits of adjectives and adverbs and the story bifurcates into a morass of irrelevant subplots and deeply unsatisfying deux ex machinas. China Mieville is a decent editor away from being awesome.
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