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City of Saints and Madmen
City of Saints and Madmen | Jeff VanderMeer
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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 youve ever visitedan 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 beheadingand finds himself enchanted. And a patient in a mental institution is convinced hes made up a city called Ambergris, imagined its every last detail, and that hes 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 puzzlebox where you can loseand findyourself again. From the Trade Paperback edition.
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City of Saints and Madmen | Jeff VanderMeer
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First three books of the year.
[COSAM] As a work of world-building, this book was awesome. The interactions and written histories, itineraries and other pieces of writing that build off the first three stories made it worth pushing through the first tale.

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City of Saints and Madmen | Jeff VanderMeer
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Ever since I read the tagged book, I think of it every time I see a mushroom. Normally I don‘t get mushrooms in my lawn, but this June my city went from historic drought conditions to double the average monthly precipitation. My very neglected lawn is jumping for joy. Or just growing mushrooms for joy 🍄

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City of Saints and Madmen | Jeff VanderMeer
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Aaaaaand finished! Took me long enough, but I certainly was in no hurry.
A really tangled, complicated book, City is in exercise in how much fun VanderMeer can have writing.
Ambergris is both a believable and an incredible setting, the world has been so solidly built that I find myself confusing Ambergrisian history with real history.
Overall, excellent.

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City of Saints and Madmen | Jeff VanderMeer
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The idea of a book so rigidly formatted is just....so mystifying to me. I want to read it. What‘s that like.

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City of Saints and Madmen | Jeff VanderMeer
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I‘m reeeally enjoying the format of fake history book, complete with rambling footnotes. Brings me back to when I would read Terry Pratchett novels in high school...

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City of Saints and Madmen | Jeff VanderMeer
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Aaaaand with that I move onto this book which I‘ve been meaning to read for a while. I have another shipment of books coming in so I‘m hoping I can make a dent in this before they arrive.

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City of Saints and Madmen | Jeff VanderMeer
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I have to admit, I started my #freakyfriday stack early. I'm a slooow reader and there are so many good books on @kait.corum 's list. And this one is 700 tree-book pages!

But, I'm 75% done with this and I just love how Jeff VanderMeer's mind works. There are so many layers.
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kait.corum Glad you're enjoying it! I've never read another author who makes fungi so menacing, but there he is. The squid stuff is one of my favorite parts, if I recall correctly. 7y
vivastory I love this book. I've been meaning to read the rest of the series. 7y
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City of Saints and Madmen | Jeff VanderMeer
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City of Saints and Madmen | Jeff VanderMeer
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It took a few restarts and my head in the right place and focused but I finally go to enjoy it. This book is complicated but deep and it's a rabbit hole that I surely enjoyed

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