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The City & The City | Where to Start With China Miéville
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- čas přidán 11. 04. 2018
- Do you keep hearing about China Miéville but never know where to start? Have you been eyeing the BBC's adaptation of The City & The City starring David Morrisey, and wondered where the books fit in?
Book Break special guest host Stevie Finegan, from the channel SableCaught, is here to introduce you to this legend of 'New Weird' fiction and give you four of the best books to start with.
Let us know your favourite China Miéville novels in the comments below!
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The best author in the world
I still remember the first time I read his Bas-Lag series (Perdido Street Station, The Scar & Iron Council), which simply blew my mind as I absorbed his riff on modern fantasy. Of the three, I think The Scar was the strongest in terms of character development, world building and adventure. I would love to see a Syfy mini-series of these books done well.
I disagree... I would not like to see it down as a TV series or movie. I don't think it could be done right. It's a cerebral read and I feel like that's where it best belongs.
Thank you for this lovely introduction to Miéville. I loved Embassytown for the way he slowly turned language into a character. I'll be looking for BBC's The City and The City straight away.
Finished City and the city a while back and it was truly an excellent book. As a non-native speaker though I found the language a bit hard. As I had to look up a couple of words for each page, reading felt a bit like going to the gym mentally haha. Difficult while reading, but rewarding afterward.
Brilliant intro to a fantastic author. And I can't wait to see what the Beeb do with The City and The City. Have you read Un Lun Dun? It's one of my all-time favourites, with extreme librarians!
Great video. Nice selection of places to start. I obviously started in the wrong place, so will try and start again with one of these. Thanks Stevie.
Great video! I just started Perdido Street Station and I'm loving it so far. This is the first fiction book I'm reading of his after reading October, which was fantastic.
Im fron Indonesia and i am reading perdido street station
Hi from France, I'm a fan of Miéville's and eagerly await This Census-taker (or "Celui qui dénombrait les hommes" in FR ... such a weird title, I love it!) and October (all of his works are translated into french, that's neat!).
Perdido St Station still is my favourite too, though... the first book I read from Miéville, and such a slap in my face... my imagination is still bruised somehow! That guy is a pilgrim of the weird, & we are lucky that he comes back with gifts! Cheers!
I adore Stevie's videos! I Always feel like I'm learning so much and now I've come away with a long list of books to read.
Charlottesreadsthings Yay! @sablecaught was a wonderful host! She really knows her stuff ☺️
I just worked what would have been the most boring nightshift, but I read this book. I BLEW through the pages! It was amazing!
what a lovely voice you have. I started with the Scar. Earlier this month I listened to the Perdido Street Station audio book and just re-visited the Scar. The Iron Council is the next on my list :)
Yepp, I'm already a Miéville fan and you did mention my favourite. I'm just not sure whether it's 'Perdito Street Station' or 'Embassytown'.
Muy two favorites are Perdido street station and muy second is Embassytown...But t'he Trilogy Basslag of China Mieville iis simple Amazing Trilogy... Brutal . I adore all this books, all t'he fantasy of t'he all of these good books and t'he extraordinary of Mieville's write.
The city was my favourite book read last year. I just received the DVD and binged them at one sitting, on a feverish sick day at home. I agree that the adaptation was marvelous and they did the book justice. Only the smoking difference was a bit on the nose.
Earlier, I was suggested Embassytown, but got only to maybe 100 pages. It was a hard read and it didn't grab me. Maybe I'm into more of a vanilla books?
I really need to read a China Mieville book sometime! He's on the (never ending) wishlist of authors to buy at some point.
Ailsa Floyd I hope this gave you some idea of where to start, Ailsa! He's definitely a time commitment but so so worth it.
dont wait
Thank you so much for introducing me to such an interesting sounding author! I can't wait to pick up one of his books now, you've really sold them! Also can't wait to check out your channel haha
Hope you enjoy! (Both my channel and Miéville's weird and wacky works.
The Scar and Railsea are my favorites; Railsea is an easy read but spectacular.
Perdido Street Station definitely should be a Netflix series.
I just started Perdido and just read 100 and I can tell it’s globo to be one of my favorites !
I have Embassy Town, its on my desk between The Social Animal by David Brooks and Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller.
she is moderating this incredibly well!
Loved This Census Taker. A fantastic new direction from Mieville. I'll always love The Bas-Lag trilogy but Mieville's writing seems to have gotten more intriguing with this kind of more sparse, spare writing style.
Good review! I thought it was a pretty good stab at a TV adaptation. And a shout out for Ted!
Have you read Kraken?
perdido street station was 581 pages as an ebook for some reason and i was wondering why it took so long 😂
Uh, that adaptation sounds solid and definitely something I want to watch rather than read :D
But ever since I've heard of Embassytown, I wanted to pick it up as I did not quite get into Kraken. But I want to try that again at some point since the plot was just so deliciously out-there!!
Kraken is crazy out there! But it's wonderful - hope you do pick it up again!
The book is always different,that s it.They are just two completely different way of expression,if you expect from a movie to be exactly the same as the book you will always be disappointed.Annihilation is a great movie cause for large part takes the distances from the book as big part of it wouldn’t work transformed in images.Kubrick,Tarantino,Scorsese took many of their plot out of books but what made those movies great wasn’t the story itself but the images that they created for those stories
There’s no link for her channel included here. And I don’t find a channel called Sable Court. What is the name of her channel, please?
MuskPumpkin it’s SableCaught. The link is there :) where it says “Check our Stevie’s channel”
What's the climax of this novel?
cracking video thank you, the name was thrown at me today and i had no clue where to dive in, solved.
Happy to help!
Very strange book. A murder mystery with a big difference. I had to reread the first half before finishing it because of the bizarre setting. I couldn't work out how the two cities interacted. It's worth sticking with though. If you can get your head round the weird setting you'll enjoy it if you like whodunits.
hiiiiiii, you gain a fan br, sorry my english LOL
Does anyone have a link to her channel? I can't find it.
It's in the description box :)
@@BookBreak Found it - thank you! :-)
just didn't get some of the changes they chose to make for the tv adaptation. Also notably budget limited
Kraken!
China Mieville isn't like Ian M. Banks is he? I hate Banks' sci fi books, whi is he similar to?
I mean to say 'who' is he similar to?
Calling Embassytown as scifi or space opera is like calling wine is more than 80% water!
Hmm. Interesting. So, meaning that it's true but not a good way to describe it?
@@bmoneybby Yes!... There is lot on linguistics, other worlds, alien-human relationships, anthropology (for alien civilizations) ... it is very difficult to classify a book as 'Embassytown.' More often it finds classified as 'New Weird' but again, that too is just not the complete picture.
@@Arkapravo awesome. I rented it about an hour ago from my online library. I loved Story of your Life and love sci fi but I've never read mieville so I'm not sure what to expect. You liked the book?
@@bmoneybby It is one of the best, probably a must read for students of linguistics.
@@Arkapravo that sounds like a space opera to me
So uni paid of then
A slightly disappointing adaptation for tv. Not enough budget and too many odd changes (always a bug bear).
I'm quite radically right wing but I have a lot respect for mieville.