The City & The City
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- ISBN13: 9780345497529
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- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE LOS ANGELES TIMES, THE SEATTLE TIMES, AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
When a murdered woman is establish in the city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks to be a routine case for Inspector Tyador Borlú of the Extreme Crime Squad. To investigate, Borlú must travel from the decaying Beszel to its equal, rival, and intimate national, the vibrant city of Ul Qoma. But this is a border crossing like no additional, a journey as psychic as it is physical, a seeing of the unseen. With Ul Qoman detective Qussim Dhatt, Borlú is enmeshed in a sordid underworld of nationalists intent on destroying their neighboring city, and unificationists who dream of dissolving the two into one. As the detectives uncover the dead woman’s secrets, they start to suspect a truth that could cost them more than their lives. What stands against them are murderous powers in Beszel and in Ul Qoma: and, most terrifying of all, that which lies between these two cities.Amazon.com Review
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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
This book is one of the six Nebula Award nominees for books published in 2009. A total of five of the books are available as eBooks from the Kindle store, while one of them is available from Baen Books.
I’ll read and review this book sooner or later, but since it’s not currently available for the Kindle standard fee or less, I’m leaving this review as a placeholder. Whenever I get around to it, I’ll replace this review (and the one star rating) with a more accurate review. But, until then, I’ll treat this eBook the way the publisher treats the readers.
The six nominees (in Kindle format) are as follows:
The Windup Girl – available from Baen Books’ Webscription service
The Like We Share Lacking Knowing
Flesh and Fire: Book One of The Vineart War
The City & The City
Boneshaker
Finch
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
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