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The City & the City

China Miéville

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Jan 29, 2010 Jenny (Reading Envy) rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: read2010, hugo-winners-or-nominees, sci-fi-fantasy, secret-agents-and-detectives

Definitely an interesting concept but Mieville was too caught up in also trying to write a crime novel to flesh it out as much as I would have liked. Some of the grammar in the dialogue makes me feel like I'm just reading typos, and the flow isn't really there.

I love the concept of having to constantly unsee things in the other city, it makes you wonder how much control a government can have, in the end. I would have liked to see much more exploration of Breach and all the implications it has. ...more

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Mar 24, 2011 travelgirlut rated it really liked it

Brilliant! I think the world in this book is pure genius. I love reading books that are unique and make my mind whirl. On the surface this book is a murder mystery, but don't hold that against it. There's so much more to this book than just a simple murder mystery. I'm not going to say anything about the story because I think it made it that much cooler that I didn't know about it going into it. Discovering the world as I went along was very exciting. So if you like sci-fi that is different than ...more

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Apr 06, 2011 Brittany rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: fantasy

This book confused me. I'm pretty sure it was meant to, but that doesn't help much. I'm confused as to how literally I'm supposed to take the two-city division, I'm confused as to what it symbolizes, I'm confused as to how it works or even got started, and I'm confused as to why I found it so hypnotic. This is basically a whodunnit, but I couldn't put it down. There weren't any kraken or horses or naked mole-rats, but it's still compellingly readable (though puzzling). I enjoyed reading it, and ...more

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