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City of Saints and Madmen (Ambergris #1)

Jeff VanderMeer

Paperback | Pages: 704 pages

Rating: 3.86 | 5123 Users | 455 Reviews

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Title	:	City of Saints and Madmen (Ambergris #1)
Author	:	Jeff VanderMeer
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 704 pages
Published	:	December 18th 2007 by Bantam (first published 2001)
Categories	:	Fantasy. Fiction. Short Stories. Horror. Weird Fiction. New Weird. Science Fiction. Steampunk

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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 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’s 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 puzzlebox where you can lose–and find–yourself again.

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Original Title:	City of Saints & Madmen: The Book of Ambergris
ISBN:	0553383574 (ISBN13: 9780553383577)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Ambergris #1
Literary Awards:	World Fantasy Award Nominee for Best Collection (2003), Tähtifantasia Award (2007)

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Jeff VanderMeer is a very clever, very talented guy. But I feel that sometimes, he lets his cleverness get in the way of a good story.City of Saints and Madmen is his first visit to the city of Ambergris; a city unlike anything I can think of in the modern world, that plays mix and match with references of geographical locations and eras that should have logically never met each other, and yet blend together artfully in this strange place. The book is constructed as a collection of stories of

Sometimes it doesn't matter what you hear about a book, all the promise described in glowing reviews--it doesn't matter who suggests it, on what authority or with what arguments. Sometimes, you're still going to come out the other side disappointed, confused how this could possibly be the book you had heard about, trying to reconcile the words of friends and fellow reviewers with what you have found on the page.I'm there again. There's something in it reminiscent of the moment after a car

I'm struggling with how to think about this book. 3 stars is inadequate to express how I felt about many of the individual stories contained in the collection. By themselves, they were very good - atmospheric, creepy, well-written, well-imagined, etc.As a whole however, I'm not sure it worked for me. It's supposed to be a collection of stories about the city of Ambergris. It's a city filled with mysterious mushroom people, artists, a festival that involves squids and slaughter, and mystery.

DNF at 26%I can appreciate the obvious beauty of the writing but there is absolutely nothing making me want to keep turning the page. I find the characters repulsive, the setting baroque and the writing overly concerned with it's own "trickiness".

*WARNING: This is not really a review, but City of Saints and Madmen requires something else entirely, and there may be a spoiler or two, but considering the book's form I doubt that will matter.*Dradin, In LoveAs Dradin experiences the rain, I am straining with the brightness of our first sunny day reflecting off the silky pages of City of Saints and Madmen, and I am struck by the sensuality of the experience a mere forty pages into VanderMeers opus. The weight of the book is comfortable in my

Jeff VanderMeer is a self-proclaimed "New-Weird" writer.The New Weird genre as we see it in Vandermeer, started off with the works of authors such as Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft. A more modern example of another New-Weird author, would be China Miéville.Most people may know the first two authors mentioned as horror writers, and it is true that Vandermeer's stories contain a flavor of horror, though many of them are too humorous to be classed as horror. The stories also contain a whiff of

This book is an adventure in the house of mirrors where stories and people touch and slightly distort and echo back.I struggled a bit with parts of it (mainly the rather boring religious elements) but the rest of it was just so interesting. I especially loved the last story about the copywriter in search of the perfect sentence while being haunted by dwarfs.Oh I hear there is another Ambergris book too!