Perdido Street Station (New Crobuzon, #1)

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Beneath the towering bleached ribs of a dead, ancient beast lies the city of New Crobuzon, where the unsavory deal is stranger to no one not even to Isaac, a gifted and eccentric scientist who has spent a lifetime quietly carrying out his unique research But when a half bird, half human creature known as the Garuda comes to him from afar, Isaac is faced with challenges he has never before encountered Though the Garuda s request is scientifically daunting, Isaac is sparked by his own curiosity and an uncanny reverence for this curious stranger Soon an eerie metamorphosis will occur that will permeate every fiber of New Crobuzon and not even the Ambassador of Hell will challenge the malignant terror it evokes. New Read Perdido Street Station (New Crobuzon, #1) [ author ] China Miéville [ Kindle ePUB or eBook ] – kino-fada.fr To paraphrase Pratchett,There s a saying that all roads lead to Ankh Morpork New Crobuzon And it s wrong All roads lead away from Ankh Morpork New Crobuzon, but sometimes people walk along them the wrong wayA stunning image of New Crobuzon from A word of warning if you read only for the story and plot, this book is not for you Yes, there is an interesting storyline with mystery and danger and love and betrayal but it is neither the strength nor the focus of Perd To paraphrase Pratchett,There s a saying that all roads lead to Ankh Morpork New Crobuzon And it s wrong All roads lead away from Ankh Morpork New Crobuzon, but sometimes people walk along them the wrong wayA stunning image of New Crobuzon from A word of warning if you read only for the story and plot, this book is not for you Yes, there is an interesting storyline with mystery and danger and love and betrayal but it is neither the strength nor the focus of Perdido Street Station What the book is really about is the city of New Crobuzon itself, and Mieville s amazing boundless imagination knows no limits when it comes to creating a living breathing creature of this surreal, phantasmagorical placeI turn away from him and step into the vastness of New Crobuzon, this towering edifice of architecture and history, this complexitude of money and slum, this profane steam powered godNew Crobuzon isthe sun...Lots of people like to accuse China Mi ville of writing with a thesaurus open next to his laptop How else to explain the frequent appearance of ossified, salubrious, susurrus and inveigled within the 623 pages of Perdido Street Station Ok, so you can maybe argue that if you write a 250,000 word book, probably less than six of those words should be palimpsest, but really, I just think he s a smart guy who carefully controls his prose.So the language in The City The City is strip Lots of people like to accuse China Mi ville of writing with a thesaurus open next to his laptop How else to explain the frequent appearance of ossified, salubrious, susurrus and inveigled within the 623 pages of Perdido Street Station Ok, so you can maybe argue that if you write a 250,000 word book, probably less than six of those words should be palimpsest, but really, I just think he s a smart guy who carefully controls his prose.So the language in The City The City is stripped down and spare, because he is riffing on detective novel tropes Kraken is littered with pop culture references as he turns modern urban fantasy upside down And Perdido Street Station is dripping with ichor grotesquely ornate nouveau Victorian prose because that s the kind of book this is dude clearly read ...This Steampunk meets New Weird meets Cyberpunk meets Fantasy novel has so many themes, that I m not even going to try to give it full credit with some sort of synopsis I m rather just going to talk about various aspects of the book as I go along with my review.The way I felt when I finished the novel, I wanted to give it 7 stars For a few reasons, I m having second thoughts.Let me start off the bat with some aspects that niggled me.Firstly, certain aspects of the world building Mieville used This Steampunk meets New Weird meets Cyberpunk meets Fantasy novel has so many themes, that I m not even going to try to give it full credit with some sort of synopsis I m rather just going to talk about various aspects of the book as I go along with my review.The way I felt when I finished the novel, I wanted to give it 7 stars For a few reasons, I m having second thoughts.Let me start off the bat with some aspects that niggled me.Firstly, certain aspects of the world building Mieville used a few mythological creatures and creatures tropes from popular culture as a template for creatures that he made his own, which he gave his own unique twist to...My friends call me Senex The Old Man because of my taste in fantasy, or they would, if I had any It s often been noted that I ll give at least four stars to any fantasy from the Italian Renaissance, and yet rarely givethan two for anything written since the nineteen sixties Some have accused me of a staunch prejudice in period, but lo it is not so.I really love the fantasy genre, but the corollary of this is that I hate most fantasy books, because of how they mistreat that which I l My friends call me Senex The Old Man because of my taste in fantasy, or they would, if I had any It s often been noted that I ll give at least four stars to any fantasy from the Italian Renaissance, and yet rarely givethan two for anything written since the nineteen sixties Some have accused me of a staunch prejudice in period, but lo it is not so.I really love the fantasy genre, but the corollary of this is that I hate most fantasy books, because of how they mistreat that which I love Whenever I am called to task for loving old books and despising new on...I feel like I ve been reading this book forever It s long, largely unstructured, and I never became particularly invested in any of the characters, so it just dragged on The best thing I could say about it is that it s diverting One of the quotes on the back describes it as phantasmagoric, which seems accurate All sorts of crazy random things, soul devouring moth creatures, interdimensional homicidal spiders, creative reconstructive surgery as state punishment That s all amusing to a degr I feel like I ve been reading this book forever It s long, largely unstructured, and I never became particularly invested in any of the characters, so it just dragged on The best thing I could say about it is that it s diverting One of the quotes on the back describes it as phantasmagoric, which seems accurate All sorts of crazy random things, soul devouring moth creatures, interdimensional homicidal spiders, creative reconstructive surgery as state punishment That s all amusing to a degree, enough to keep boredom at bay while waiting in line or riding the train.Which is not to say that this is a work of complete and utter novelty All kinds of fantasy and scifi tropes, sentient parasite societies, machines acquiring intelligence, hawk people, oppressive government, blah blah There are also passages like this The glass was painted opaque It vibrated minutely in eldritch dimensions, buffeted by emanations from ... my dear Perdido Street Station,perhaps it is fated not to be or perhaps i need to grow a bit , until i am able to understand and appreciate your unique charms but for now, i am just not ready please don t take this personally i promise that i shall try you out again sometime, perhaps soon too many people love you, and they love you too, too much for me to give up on you altogether i will admit that my first impression was off putting the way you talked and gestured and sought attent my dear Perdido Street Station,perhaps it is fated not to be or perhaps i need to grow a bit , until i am able to understand and appreciate your unique charms but for now, i am just not ready please don t take this personally i promise that i shall try you out again sometime, perhaps soon too many people love you, and they love you too, too much for me to give up on you altogether i will admit that my first impression was off putting the way you talked and gestured and sought attention only created annoyance but still, i was determined to soldier on, knowing of the wonders that many others have enjoyed in your embrace i thought that there must be something there, some quality underneath all of the affectation and all of the almost desperate attempts to dazzle and to provoke i felt confident that beneath all of the ruffles and ribbons and silky trifles and shi... WARNING This review probably contains some but not many spoilers, so you may not want to read this if you haven t read Perdido Street Station yet This review also contains plenty of vulgarity Please don t read this if you do not want to see the f and other words Thanks.Me reading my review I decided to read this on SoundCloud, since BirdBrian has turned me into a recorded voice madman You can listen right here if you d like.I fucking hate moths Seriously I hate them They freak me ou WARNING This review probably contains some but not many spoilers, so you may not want to read this if you haven t read Perdido Street Station yet This review also contains plenty of vulgarity Please don t read this if you do not want to see the f and other words Thanks.Me reading my review I decided to read this on SoundCloud, since BirdBrian has turned me into a recorded voice madman You can listen right here if you d like.I fucking hate moths Seriously I hate them They freak me out You know how Indiana Jones hates snakes That s how I hate moths I hate them so much that the...A brilliant page turner.First of all, any book that begins with a quote from Philip K Dick is alright in my book and promises a great story to come This promise was kept, with interest Perdido Street Station by China Mieville is to steampunk weird fiction as Neuromancer was to cyberpunk it is the definitive benchmark An urbane, nightmarish fantasy, Perdido Street Station is similar to Mieville s The City and the City but where the later novel was Monte Python absurd, PSS is Charles Dicken A brilliant page turner.First of all, any book that begins with a quote from Philip K Dick is alright in my book and promises a great story to come This promise was kept, with interest Perdido Street Station by China Mieville is to steampunk weird fiction as Neuromancer was to cyberpunk it is the definitive benchmark An urbane, nightmarish fantasy, Perdido Street Station is similar to Mieville s The City and the City but where the later novel was Monte Python absurd, PSS is Charles Dickens steam punk chic, blending elements of brilliant characterization with fantastic settings and all under the umbrella of Mieville s outrageously creative imagination Mieville makes frequent and entertaining use of simile and metaphor to color his landscape, but may turn a little too often to the thesaurus though th...DNF at 11% Go me and stuff.Yet another overhyped book with a cult following bites the dust Yay I obviously read this one wrong Or maybe I read it right but didn t enjoy it because I d mistakenly purchased the Swahili version and read it back to front and upside down This is the most plausible explanation, since I don t belong to the People of Despicable Book Taste Horde PoDBTH and always read books right Had I bought the English version, I m pretty sure I wouldn t have noticed how exc DNF at 11% Go me and stuff.Yet another overhyped book with a cult following bites the dust Yay I obviously read this one wrong Or maybe I read it right but didn t enjoy it because I d mistakenly purchased the Swahili version and read it back to front and upside down This is the most plausible explanation, since I don t belong to the People of Despicable Book Taste Horde PoDBTH and always read books right Had I bought the English version, I m pretty sure I wouldn t have noticed how excruciatingly boring the story is Or thought that reading the book w...Finished I am stunned 5 star stunned After having read The City the City I new I was in for something special, but I had no idea is was going to be anything like this Perdido Street Station is a rich steampunk fantasy novel The world is unique and filled to the brim with creative ideas and details Every sense is involved when wandering through it If you want to read this, don t be faint of heart The visuals are sometimes shocking and early on there are animal experiments, then no Finished I am stunned 5 star stunned After having read The City the City I new I was in for something special, but I had no idea is was going to be anything like this Perdido Street Station is a rich steampunk fantasy novel The world is unique and filled to the brim with creative ideas and details Every sense is involved when wandering through it If you want to read this, don t be faint of heart The visuals are sometimes shocking and early on there are animal experiments, then no spoiling things happen to corpses and boy, do they stink There are beasts of hell and sewers no, not the harmless kind, these are filthy with slick walls, slime, mould, full of rot and shit If you are prone to nightmares, here you are supplied with lots of material Is it ...

Perdido Street Station (New Crobuzon, #1)
  • English
  • 21 March 2018
  • Mass Market Paperback
  • 623 pages
  • 0345459407
  • China Miéville
  • Perdido Street Station (New Crobuzon, #1)