Review: The City & the City
Editorial Review - Bookreporter.com - Stephen Hubbard"Nothing is still like the dead are still. The wind moves their hair, as it moved hers, and they don't respond at all." It begins with a murder. Or, more precisely, the discovery of a murder. On the scene is Extreme Case Squad Inspector Tyador Borlú. The woman who lays at his feet turns out to be the product of much more than a typical murder, but rather one of a bizarre and deadly conspiracy that ... Read full review
Review: The City and the City
User Review - Michael - GoodreadsSo glad this one reeled me in and threw me up on the bank all spinning with dizzy pleasure. I was headed for disappointment 100 pages in. The fantasy of the setting was intriguing at first: two cities ... Read full review
Review: The City and the City
User Review - Carol - GoodreadsThis book is unlike any I have read before and I glad to have come across it. It forced it's way through my eyes, into my imagination, forced me to sit and ruminate and conceptualize in ways I ... Read full review
Review: The City & the City
User Review - Cecily - GoodreadsMieville is the sort of author I expect and want to like, but I didn't feel the love with "The Scar" (http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...). This second foray into his works was far more rewarding ... Read full review
Review: The City and the City
User Review - Allen Blair - GoodreadsMy first, and absolutely best, China Mieville book. I had started looking into speculative fiction, weird fiction, call it what you will, and read an NPR review of Embassytown by China. I couldn't get ... Read full review
Review: The City & the City
User Review - Brad - GoodreadsMy first reread of The City The City was an experience as convoluted as the grosstopography of Beszel and Ul Qoma. A chapter read, four chapters listened to; three chapters read, two chapters listened ... Read full review
Review: The City & the City
User Review - Jacob - GoodreadsJanuary 2009 (Before) Don't want to sound shallow, but...that shade of blue (referring to this cover) really doesn't make me think of China Miéville. The UK editon looks much better. (Although it does ... Read full review
Review: The City & the City
User Review - Nataliya - GoodreadsWow. Okay, I'm definitely fangirling for China Miéville. I love his limitless imagination, the skill to effortlessly make an unbelievable premise feel real, and ability to turn any setting and place ... Read full review
Review: The City & the City
User Review - Tracy - GoodreadsI was kind of blown away by this. Hadn't read any of China Mieville's books. I did love it. It had this twisted plot...weird concepts (two cities co-exist within the same space on an Earth that is for ... Read full review
Review: The City and the City
User Review - Richard - GoodreadsWhen I finished this I first gave it four stars, but as I thought about it and pondered what I had to say here, that rating kept nudging up. Oddly, I think I liked this book more than it deserves ... Read full review
