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elizagrant 's review for:
The City & the City
by China Miéville
strikingly bureaucratic, though to be expected when the worlds of SCIENCE FICTION and DETECTIVE FICTION collide. Author asks you to suspend your disbelief in the uncovering of the murder mystery that you are already suspending as part of the premise, which feels a little silly (spoiler: two cities coexist in the same geographical space but it’s apparently ludicrous that there could be a third ).
Anyway I guess it was a pleasant surprise that it didn’t turn into an obvious commentary on class as it could have been (this city is the RICH city and this one is the POOR one), and I liked the way the world was built so that the cities had a place in the international economy and imagination. but it was written like it REALLYYYY wanted a movie adaptation.
Anyway I guess it was a pleasant surprise that it didn’t turn into an obvious commentary on class as it could have been (this city is the RICH city and this one is the POOR one), and I liked the way the world was built so that the cities had a place in the international economy and imagination. but it was written like it REALLYYYY wanted a movie adaptation.