Kraken

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There are many books written by authors with incredible imaginations but unfortunately not all manage to remain within the necessary constraints and the resulting output is not always accessible, and often unreadable. Billy may spend more of the story than we'd like being staggeringly overwhelmed, but we can't deny that the circumstances (ludicrous piled on unbelievable piled on Doomsday) would be enough to knock anyone off their feet. I would like to thank Goodreads and Del Ray for sending me an uncorrected proof of Kraken through the Goodreads First Reads program. Again, this seems like a misunderstanding of how cults view the world, or else, more likely perhaps, just a failure to apply any real-world psychology to the setting. Un Lun Dun tho, is very much Mieville trying to do Gaiman YA, it reads a little like Coraline, and is very cute.

There are conspiracies galore, gods created by belief, and the psychotic duo of Goss and Subby, who remind me both of Croupe and Vandemaar of Neverwhere fame and of The Domino Men. I guess I'll still have to choose my next Mievlille carefully, but I will certainly be looking for one or more, based on this excellent story.I think most would agree Miéville’s strongest asset is his formidable imagination and here he gives it free reign to populate London’s theological underworld with all manner of bizarre cults, weird creatures, and unusual magic. Kraken was an enjoyable read, but I felt that almost every facet of the story, from character to plot to world building, didn’t quite add up.

I suppose this is the China Miéville version of a fun and accessible novel, although this is still Miéville so it never quite abandons traces of horror and his characteristic dense prose.

We got pieces of chaos nazis, a bit of Read Or Die, but everything else was pure extrapolation and imagination, as far as I could tell. The inventiveness of some of his creations was just so off the wall that this book had me hooked all the way through. Something that no one I've ever read does as well as Pynchon, to whom this book is, among other things, a tentacular pulp homage. Kraken does not suffer in this regard as Miéville always remembers the reader and always remains within the all-important boundaries.

You've probably read the blurbs: The impending apocalypse is kicked off when a giant squid is abducted from the Natural History Museum in London. I most definitely feel like is one Miéville that you can re-read for more meaning, if only you can stand the story. Of course, Miéville actually takes his cults-as-normal conceit a step further and has them all mix and associate.Para el conservador del museo, Billy Harrow, será el primer paso de un salto sin red hacia un Londres de cultos enfrentados, magia surrealista, apóstatas y asesinos. For the past few years I've been hearing the name China Miéville without ever having read any of his works. An inexplicable event has occurred at the Natural History Museum, London—a forty-foot specimen of giant squid in formalin has disappeared overnight.

This becomes particularly glaring at the very end of the book (if you are spoiler-averse you should skip this paragraph).But there’s an important difference: established religions have the weight of tradition and, to varying degrees, society behind them. First, we are asked to believe that removing Darwin would prevent evolution from ever being discovered, which is nonsense.