The Last Days of New Paris (Hardcover)

from CorbettBuchly

Another amazing novel (novella) by Mieville. Here, the author "paints" a fascinating world in which artists' surrealist works and imaginings come to life in a strange world of magic. My only small complaint is that the protagonist seemed to lack a strong emotional motivation to pull us through th...

from booklove2

I had a dream of battling Nazis in other dimensions and struggling with my plethora of choices on what to read, I wanted to read something "new weird". This choice was creepily like the dream. The plot of this one sounded too good to resist as soon as I heard about it (and whoa is it dreamlike in...

from jen.e.moore

I absolutely adored this - Surrealism? Meditations on the value of art to society? A cameo by Jack Parsons? Fighting Nazis? Perfection.

from A2Seamster

I loved this book so much that, after listening to the audiobook, I read the Kindle version.

from lavaturtle

I love some of China Miéville's books, and don't really care for others. This was in the latter category. This is a strange book. The narrative structure is haphazard and rambling. There's rarely enough of one scene for the reader to get invested in it before the story lurches to another scene, i...