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davemeister28 's review for:
Perdido Street Station
by China Miéville
There are good--great, exciting, thrilling--ideas in this book. But the author seems to spend too much time world-building (for my tastes) and tells a story that (while okay) is not the story I would have liked to have read. Added to this, the writing is unpolished and contains tropes and mannerisms that annoyed me (an editor by trade), but which I am sure 95% of readers will not be fazed by.
I was excited to read China Mieville before reading Perdido Street Station, and now I am less so, but I will certainly look forward to sampling one of his later books. I know Perdido Street Station was just his second or third novel, and I hope and suspect that his later ones increase in quality.
I was excited to read China Mieville before reading Perdido Street Station, and now I am less so, but I will certainly look forward to sampling one of his later books. I know Perdido Street Station was just his second or third novel, and I hope and suspect that his later ones increase in quality.