The City and the City
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When the body of a murdered woman is establish in the extraordinary, decaying city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks like a routine case for Inspector Tyador Borlu of the Extreme Crime Squad. But as he probes, the evidence starts to point to conspiracies far weirder, and more deadly, than anything he could have imagined. Soon his work puts him and persons he cares for in danger. Borlu must travel to the only metropolis on Planet as weird as his own, across a border like no additional.Amazon.com Review
Amazon Best of the Month, June 2009: The city is Beszel, a rundown metropolis on the eastern edge of Europe. The additional city is Ul Qoma, a modern Eastern European boomtown, despite being a bit of an international pariah. What the two cities share, and what they don’t, is the deliciously evocative conundrum at the heart of China Mieville’s The City & The City. Mieville is well known as a modern fantasist (and urbanist), but from book to book he’s tried on different genres, and here he’s fully hard-boiled, stripping down to a seen-it-all detective’s voice that’s wonderfully appropriate for this tale of seen and unseen. His detective is Inspector Tyador Borlu, a cop in Beszel whose investigation of the murder of a young foreign woman takes him back and into the world across the highly policed border to Ul Qoma to uncover a crime that threatens the delicate balance between the cities and, perhaps more so, Borlu’s own dissolving sense of identity. In his tale of two cities, Mieville makes a world both fantastic and unsettlingly familiar, whose mysteries don’t end with the solution of a murder. –Tom Nissley
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I stopped reading this book around page 40 because of the nearly constant use (every additional page) of foul language. Too terrible. The thought intrigued me, but the language got in the way.
Foul Language: The foulest kind. Every additional page.
Sex: Unknown.
Violence: The book starts out at the scene of a grave murder. Otherwise, unknown.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
GAve up, read first part and end, just does not work,,only printed because of leader cachet!
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
This is probably the weirdest book I have read in a long long time. Since I don’t care for science fiction, dark fairy tales, and the like, I was painstakingly disguested with myself for spending the time to read The City in its entirety. But, in defense of the content, I stayed with it because the book club of which I am a member, recommended it. I wanted to find different selections to make regarding my reading and I certainly did! For readers who delight in this venue, I suppose they thought it was a fantastic fantasy.
A murder takes place in one of the two make judge cities and a ‘detective’ from each city is assigned the case. The two cities are twin cities, but each with a distinct flavor of its own where ‘neither the twain shall meet’. The over ruling power is a nebulous unseen ’something or additional’ which keeps both cities in line.
I read over 200 pages before there was any action what-so-ever. Prior to that, it was description upon description about the two cities. There are way too many books out there that I would delight in before ever going to another one by this leader.
I know the point of the tale, I guess, but man oh man, don’t waste your time!
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Well if you’re feeling evocative for the excellent ancient days of persons pleased Cold War years and long for a divided Berlin, then you might take heart in this novel. Otherwise steer clear of this mess where the object is to beat around the bush plot-wise for as long as possible. The cool kids might like this writer, but that’s only cuz they’ve been told he is cool to like.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
The concept is fascinating, the tale is compelling, and the setting is vibrantly realistic…but this book drowns under a sea of vile profanity. The leader shows a commendable mandate of language, coining the marvel portmanteau “toppleganger” to clarify the unique geography of his setting, but he shows a baffling propensity to slot in unecessary and incomprehensible profanity everywhere.
I did not do a proper analysis, but it’s safe to say that the average distribution of the “F-word” is more than once per page–and it may be more than two per page. Espeically confusing is the use of the aforementioned F-word to stand in for the deity in profane references: as in “what in the name of F___?!”
I establish the profanity numbing and distracting. It represents of use of foul language that far exceeds any of my real-life experiences with English language communication. The dialogue is worth wading through for the sake fo the tale, but it is nearly unreadable. The bizarre profanity swamps an otherwise wonderful novel.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5