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A review by jenibo
Kraken by China Miéville
3.0
Mieville never fails to impress me with his vocabulary and imagination; but this latest (that I've read) foray into new territory was ultimately uninteresting, I found. After a while, I was just tired of the endless machinations of the fantastical plot and the special talents of the myriad of characters.
As I read, I was sometimes comparing Mieville to Murakami, the Japanese master, and both have the same limitations, I begin to think: unbelievability seems to foster disengagement.
He's certainly prodigiously talented, but sometimes Mieville is just a bridge too far over into his own world. I found this to be true of The Last Days of New Paris, too. Very clever, but just a bit overwrought, the castles in the sky that he builds just a bit overdone.
As I read, I was sometimes comparing Mieville to Murakami, the Japanese master, and both have the same limitations, I begin to think: unbelievability seems to foster disengagement.
He's certainly prodigiously talented, but sometimes Mieville is just a bridge too far over into his own world. I found this to be true of The Last Days of New Paris, too. Very clever, but just a bit overwrought, the castles in the sky that he builds just a bit overdone.