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Liked It0 of 1 members found this review helpful “fantastic. mieville always entertain” see full review » see other reviews » |
Didn’t Like It“OK once again I suffered through one of Mieville's books which I really want to get and like and . . . .didn't. he's too hard-core fantasy for me and uses lots of big words (seriously). I need a pocket dictionary for his books. Its the themes I like - this one about revolution, workers' rights,...” see full review » see other reviews » |
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“A difficult, definant read, it pulls you into it's world of remades, golums and gods. Horrifying but human at once, I'm turning every page and losing sleep”
Sarah B wrote this review Saturday, November 14 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“I really do enjoy China Miéville's works, but all the ones I've read do get plodding at certain points. Also, the socialist message of the story got a little irritating toward the end.”
David F wrote this review Tuesday, October 13 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No“Definately hard work - needed a week holiday to complete it but Mieville creates a weird and imaginative world; not greatly likeable characters yet you still care about what happens to them.”
Cheryl K wrote this review Sunday, August 2 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“I'll review it later”
Naju wrote this review Monday, June 15 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Mieville conjures up the freakiest monstrosities I've ever read. But the behavior of humans in his stories is always more "monstrous" than that of xenians. Charles Dickens, meet H.P. Lovecraft.”
apokalypsis wrote this review Saturday, February 28 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No0 of 1 members found this review helpful“fantastic. mieville always entertain”
Billy wrote this review Monday, December 22 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No“OK once again I suffered through one of Mieville's books which I really want to get and like and . . . .didn't. he's too hard-core fantasy for me and uses lots of big words (seriously). I need a pocket dictionary for his books. Its the themes I like - this one about revolution, workers' rights, xenophobia, power-struggle. . .but yea, I got only a third of it if I'm lucky.”
Derecka M wrote this review Tuesday, October 21 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“By far the least engaging of China Mieville's Bas-Lag novels, Iron Council suffers from an overdose of politics, a pretentiously disjointed narrative, a lack of tension, and, worst of all, far too many last-minute-out-of-the-blue lucky turns and rescues. It is still written in rich prose and with a feeling for language which is quite unique, and it is still a decent book. However, it is no longer exciting. Perdido Street Station, though longer, is a more thrilling and more coherent accomplishment. The Scar, after a slow start, becomes a world of fascination on Armada. Iron Council, sadly, never quite grips. A lengthy novel-within-a-novel-style flashback jars badly, and a relatively cheap double-gender-bluff that could only happen in books stand out as narrative mistakes. On the whole, I would say this is the most flawed of Mieville's grown up novels. (His young adult novel, Un Lun Dun, sadly, being a disaster)”
Robert H wrote this review Friday, May 2 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No“China Mieville has always done incredible works of world creation. Iron Council is filled with references to the Bas Lag universe that are thrilling and amazing, leaving the reader with the feeling that they're exploring the world for themselves. There are some really awesome scenes in this book, which is sort of marred by the fact that there are incredibly strong socialist undertones throughout the book, leaving the reader to feel as if Mieville has sacrificed plot for politics at some points.”
Albert L wrote this review Saturday, March 15 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Definitely my least favorite of the Bas Lag books. There's some cool stuff going (Judah's ability to create Golems, Ori and Spiral Jacobs, the Jack Half-a-Prayer puppet-show and how Mieville works in stuff from his other books seamlessly, the Iron Council itself, and all the socialist politics) but there's a chunk in the middle of the book that just completely bogged it down for me and the sidestory of Spiral Jacobs and Ori became way more interesting to me than what was happening with Cutter and Judah.”
DK Thompson wrote this review Monday, September 17 2007. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
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