Un Lun Dun, (Paperback)

from PghDragonMan

If I had not read Neil Gamin's Neverwhere, I would probably be more impressed with Un Lun Dun by China Mieville. The concept was not entirely original and Mieville's style is nowhere near as captivating as Gaiman's, yet I never felt bogged down in the story. It did not quite captivate me either. ...

from lalalibrarian

Wow! UnLundun (unlondon) is connected to real London and is absorbing all the Smog, but in UnLundun the smog is intelligent and it has an evil plan... Deeba and her friend Zanna are drawn into UnLundun b/c of a prophecy, but then things go completely wrong, but not really. This book was very Wond...

from cajela

Ostensibly this is a kids' book, but older readers will enjoy this very much too. Featuring a girl hero and any number of truly strange companions (don't call them sidekicks!), it's an account of a quest to save the world. Or perhaps two worlds. Un Lun Dun is a world parallel to and offset from L...

from GingerbreadMan

I remember reading "The Neverending Story" at age nine or so. Brimful of fantastic detail, tons of engrossing strangeness of a sort I didn't even know existed in books, a nail-biting fairytale motored adventure that had the pages turning themselves. And at the same time a book so thick that it tr...

from phoebesmum

Sprawling, ambitious, overlong YA fantasy that owes a (happily, acknowledged) lot to 'Neverwhere', to name but one. Parallel-London is a fairly commonplace concept, but this managed to be reasonably inventive and original. The writing style is much flatter than I'd expected from this much-hyped a...