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mmetzdorf 's review for:
Perdido Street Station
by China Miéville
This is 4-star book that flirted dangerously with a 3-star review with every passing extraneous page. Though the characters and dramas were fresh and strange, I got quite tired of the lengthy descriptions of architecture and mandibles. At some point, the world had already been built and Mieville was just playing too much with his own creativity. There's a deus ex machina bit to the climax of the story that I didn't like so much and this book still earned about a 4-star review but it was at least 250 pages too long and I found it difficult to finish.