I loved the city and the city and was a book with a similar style require. An Internet search resulted Finch, set another detective story in an imaginary universe. His impressive blurb and VanderMeer's numerous award nominations led me book publishers request. Unfortunately this book pushed my tolerance of the bizarre until to the border and I ended up is more than a little confused.
Finch is in a world dominated by the fungus. The "grey caps ' are mushrooms with the ability to go but the cities drop with networks of mushrooms, to influence the Sporen can, many evil people." The central figure, Finch, is a detective who is asked, the double murder of a gray hat and a person to investigate. The research is very different from our world and includes the dreams and the lives of others by eating their see everything ' memory bulbs ' struggling with huge mushrooms. It was all too weird for me. I never really understood the physical laws of the universe and my constant confusion meant that I not could connect with the story.
The writing style took a long time to get used to. The sentences were often cut off and this gave the text one feel nervous.
If you looked outside you had seen a dome like haze over the northern part of the Bay. Green Orange discharge as sunspots. It had just watched. It looked and not known what to say. What to do. The House barricaded. Spent the rest of the night with weapons within reach.
The pace was fast, but little interest held numerous Chase scenes for me. I wish that the plot had been slow so I would have a chance to understand a little better, the motivations of characters.
I also think that I was a disadvantage of not read VanderMeer's two earlier books set in the same world. Although all three books are independent, I am sure that one would have led me, the book that far more appreciate greater environmental knowledge.
Overall, this book was too confusing for me - I need to keep in mind my fictional worlds on more fundamental principles!
Recommended, who wants to read something else.
Have you found something similar to the city and the city?
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