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Iron Council (New Crobuzon, Bk 3)
Iron Council - New Crobuzon, Bk 3
Author: China Mieville
Following Perdido Street Station and The Scar, acclaimed author China Miéville returns with his hugely anticipated Del Rey hardcover debut. With a fresh and fantastical band of characters, he carries us back to the decadent squalor of New Crobuzon -- this time, decades later. — It is a time of wars and revolutions, conflict a...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780345464026
ISBN-10: 0345464028
Publication Date: 7/27/2004
Pages: 576
Rating:
  • Currently 4.2/5 Stars.
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4.2 stars, based on 17 ratings
Publisher: Del Rey
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
Members Wishing: 3
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ver0nika23 avatar reviewed Iron Council (New Crobuzon, Bk 3) on + 15 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
This is my favorite of Mieville's work. The story is enchanting, yet topical, and beautifully written. One of the few books my DH and I agree on. Can be read alone, but reading Perdido Street Station helps to define the races of characters, locations, etc.
reviewed Iron Council (New Crobuzon, Bk 3) on + 232 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
Lot's of people recommended the book but I couldn't get through it.
althea avatar reviewed Iron Council (New Crobuzon, Bk 3) on + 774 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
I had eagerly anticipated reading Mieville's latest - but while I certainly enjoyed returning to the world of New Crobuzon, I have to admit that I did not like this book nearly as much as either 'The Scar' or 'Perdido Street Station.' Of course, I love both of those books, so my expectations for this one were very high. Still, I felt that the concepts in this book overwhelmed the story - the characters and events were secondary to Mieville's thoughts about repressive societies, social economics, the motivations of revolutionaries and seditionists, crime and punishment, the destructive cost of 'progress' etc. Not that these are not interesting topics - and admittedly, his other novels may also be more about milieu than about character.... but I just didn't get into this one as much.
The setting of this story is conceptually interesting - a train, which is taken over in a workers' revolt, and which becomes an itinerant legend, laying tracks before itself and taking them up afterward... Meanwhile, seditionists in New Crobuzon ready for revolt...
This would be a good candidate for a book club discussion - there are a lot of political parallels, a lot of comments on human nature... a lot of ideas.
I'd definitely recommend it - but only to those who have already read The Scar' or 'Perdido Street Station.'
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