City of saints and madmen6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() The style was clever, but the story wasn’t as enjoyable as the first one. The footnotes made me laugh, but it was kind of irritating to go back and forth between text and footnotes. ‘The Hoegbotton Guide to the Early History of Ambergris’ - This was slightly drier, masquerading as a sort of history pamphlet. The ending was weird, and clever, but also kind of predictable. ![]() It was also the most straightforward short story - not masquerading as anything else. I kind of felt overwhelmed, a bit thrown in at the deep end, but I did like the descriptions. ‘Dradin, In Love’ - This one was richest in very visual descriptions of the city. Ignoring the appendix, there are four stories: The writing and descriptions are quite rich, and you build up a very clear mental image of this city. It’s an interesting collection of stories with all kinds of different tones and styles and genres, even, all centred around the fictional city of Ambergris. I felt the cities were characters in both books - more clearly so in this book, where there’s no single recurring, central character. The comparisons between Perdido Street Station and this book are obvious. The… bittiness annoys me: I do like short stories/novellas, but this isn’t the easiest collection to read. I intend to finish it some day, but it’s not the kind of book I feel like I can sit down and just blitz on through. ![]() City of Saints and Madmen, Jeff VanderMeerĬonfession: I didn’t actually read all of the appendix of this. ![]()
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