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Un Lun Dun (Hardcover)

by China Mieville (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 528 pages
  • Publisher: Children's Books; First Edition edition (6 April 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0230015867
  • ISBN-13: 978-0230015869
  • Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 14 x 4.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
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21 of 23 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Great fun!, 5 May 2007
By P. Forbes (London) - See all my reviews
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Having just read the disappointing Iron Council I was happily very impressed with Un Lun Dun. It's supposed to be a children's book but me at 43 years old truly enjoyed this fantastic fantasy adventure. It's 520 pages long (in hard back) but it's so exciting that if you pick this book up you'll fly through it in no time. This is the first book I've ever read that at the end of it I wanted to start it all over again! China Miéville is a real great talent. For the adults out there I also recommended his Bas Lag novels "The Scar" and "Perdido Street Station", which is one of my favourite novels of all time. But those novels are definitely not for children. I've given "Un Lun Dun" Five out of five. Go get it.
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26 of 30 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic fun!, 4 April 2007
By kehs (Hertfordshire, England) - See all my reviews
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Deeba and Zanna discover a wheel in a basement, Zenna turns it and realizes that something weird is happening - London is being switched off! Zanna and Deeba are two best friends and they find themselves in the world of UnLondon, a place where London's discarded things somehow end up. UnLondon is under siege by the sinister Smog (a poisonous cloud) and is waiting for its saviour to arrive as prophesised by their magic book that can speak. Guided by this book the girls have to try and put an end to the poisonous cloud. A crew of UnLondon locals, the likes of which you will have never dreamed, joins them in their quest! UnLondon is more than a little unusual but an absolute wonder to read about.
If you love Neil Gaiman (especially Neverwhere), Terry Pratchett and Lewis Carroll then this book will be a particular delight for you
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Subversive, original and very entertaining, 3 May 2008
By quippe (London, UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Un Lun Dun (Paperback)
China Mieville's brilliant YA fantasy subverts the traditional genre elements, notably the ideas that only a person ordained by prophecy can defeat a Big Bad, fantastical worlds only accessible through special portals and that pretty blonde girls have to be the hero.

When Zanna and Deeba realise that a broken umbrella is watching Zanna one night, they follow it and find themselves in the parallel world of UnLondon. There they discover that Zanna is the Shwazzy, the only person able to defeat the Smog, a cloud of noxious gas intent on dominating and destroying both UnLondon and London. But just as Zanna's embraces the role she's unexpectedly incapacitated. Someone has to help UnLondon if it is to survive, and Deeba volunteers. But she's not the Shwazzy, so what good can she possibly do?

Mieville's imagination blew me away. His UnLondon is familiar to Londoners (double-decker buses, markets, even a version of the London Eye) but he mixes it with the surreal - cannibal giraffes and houses constructed from rubbish amongst others. He uses puns to great effect and I'd recommend this book for the binjas alone. Politics also plays a big part in the book, with London's government being tied to what's happening in UnLondon. There's a distinctly anti-authoritarian feel to the text with the motivation of political leaders and even the book of prophecy all being questioned and found wanting.

Mieville illustrates his own text and the drawings are evocative and help flesh out his world. Deeba's a very human heroine, brave because she needs to be and prone to self-doubt and I particularly liked the scene where she refuses to jump through the normal prophecy hoops. Her helpers are well written, particularly Hemi the half-ghost boy who sees shoplifting as extreme shopping, Jones the bus conductor and I loved Curdle the milk carton. My only quibble is that where Mieville kills members of her team, those members haven't quite been in the book long enough for it to have a big emotional impact.

The slow build-up might put off some readers, but the chapters are kept short and there are some wonderfully written scenes (my favourite being one with a Black Window spider, which is very creepy). Mieville leaves an opening for a sequel and I would love to see more of the world he's created. Teens reading this will want to read more of his work.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic!
I know that this is a horribly over used phrase, but Un Lun Dun really is a `rollercoaster ride' of a book - It's bizarre and weird, funny and clever. Read more
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1.0 out of 5 stars Awful- couldn't finish!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful and great fun
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5.0 out of 5 stars So thick a haze o'erspreads the sky
"So thick a haze o'erspreads the sky,
They cannot see the sun on high"
(from The Inchcape Rock - Robert Southey)


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Published 9 months ago by Amanda Richards

4.0 out of 5 stars not much to add other than my own support of this book
i would probably give it a 3.5 stars if it was available, but this is still a good book. more weird from mieville, though as it is a chiefly a children's book, much less graphic... Read more
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Published 20 months ago by David Brookes

3.0 out of 5 stars OK but it drags a bit
There are some great ideas in the book - the binjas being my favourite, but it feels like a bit of a mish mash of ideas and characters from other books. Read more
Published 20 months ago by L. Hogan

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