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The City and The City by China Mieville
antickmusings.blogspot.com - 7/9/2009
The City and The City by China Mieville
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The cliche goes that books are like a conversation -- they speak to each other and to the reader, some telling jokes, others grabbing the lapels and pleading, a few lying languidly back and rolling out unlikely tales. The City and the City , in that company, is that one guy at the party who ...
mumpsimus.blogspot.com - 7/6/2009
The City and the City by China Miéville
— mumpsimus.blogspot.com — If The City & The City is not my favorite China Miéville novel, that is only because... I encountered Perdido Street Station at exactly the time I was ready for the riches it offered, and so the powerful, unforgettable experience of reading it ... (more) The City and the City by China Miéville

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