
City of Saints and Madmen
The Ambergris Series, Book 1
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Narrated by:
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Bronson Pinchot
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By:
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Jeff VanderMeer
In City of Saints and Madmen, Jeff VanderMeer has reinvented the literature of the fantastic. You hold in your hands an invitation to a place unlike any you’ve ever visited - an invitation delivered by one of our most audacious and astonishing literary magicians.
City of elegance and squalor. Of religious fervor and wanton lusts. And everywhere, on the walls of courtyards and churches, an incandescent fungus of mysterious and ominous origin. In Ambergris, a would-be suitor discovers that a sunlit street can become a killing ground in the blink of an eye. An artist receives an invitation to a beheading - and finds himself enchanted. And a patient in a mental institution is convinced he has made up a city called Ambergris, imagined its every last detail, and that he’s really from a place called Chicago.
By turns sensuous and terrifying, filled with exotica and eroticism, this interwoven collection of stories, histories, and “eyewitness” reports invokes a universe within a puzzle box where you can lose - and find - yourself again.
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Monotone reading
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I did not care for the book, it seemed overly wordy for the sake of wordiness. (I just made up those terms) I neither hated or loved this title. I would also go further and say , it's on me for picking it,not on the author. I'd check out another Vandermeer book in the future.
Not my jam, but not the authors fault.
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Good book, okay narrator
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good but odd
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one good short story in a vat of refuse
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It felt like the reader was bored reading the book most of the time. And the stories came at you out of nowhere with no explanations for most thing like you just have to accept everything going on, which hard to do when you have no information or the semblance of background.
Don't read this. it's not worth it.
Not good.
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Unendurable...
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