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Title	:	Kraken
Author	:	China Miéville
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 509 pages
Published	:	June 29th 2010 by Del Rey (first published 2010)
Categories	:	Fantasy. Fiction. Urban Fantasy. Science Fiction. Horror. Mystery. Science Fiction Fantasy

Kraken Hardcover | Pages: 509 pages

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With this outrageous new novel, China Miéville has written one of the strangest, funniest, and flat-out scariest books you will read this—or any other—year. The London that comes to life in Kraken is a weird metropolis awash in secret currents of myth and magic, where criminals, police, cultists, and wizards are locked in a war to bring about—or prevent—the End of All Things. In the Darwin Centre at London’s Natural History Museum, Billy Harrow, a cephalopod specialist, is conducting a tour whose climax is meant to be the Centre’s prize specimen of a rare Architeuthis dux—better known as the Giant Squid. But Billy’s tour takes an unexpected turn when the squid suddenly and impossibly vanishes into thin air. As Billy soon discovers, this is the precipitating act in a struggle to the death between mysterious but powerful forces in a London whose existence he has been blissfully ignorant of until now, a city whose denizens—human and otherwise—are adept in magic and murder. There is the Congregation of God Kraken, a sect of squid worshippers whose roots go back to the dawn of humanity—and beyond. There is the criminal mastermind known as the Tattoo, a merciless maniac inked onto the flesh of a hapless victim. There is the FSRC—the Fundamentalist and Sect-Related Crime Unit—a branch of London’s finest that fights sorcery with sorcery. There is Wati, a spirit from ancient Egypt who leads a ragtag union of magical familiars. There are the Londonmancers, who read the future in the city’s entrails. There is Grisamentum, London’s greatest wizard, whose shadow lingers long after his death. And then there is Goss and Subby, an ageless old man and a cretinous boy who, together, constitute a terrifying—yet darkly charismatic—demonic duo. All of them—and others—are in pursuit of Billy, who inadvertently holds the key to the missing squid, an embryonic god whose powers, properly harnessed, can destroy all that is, was, and ever shall be.

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Original Title:	Kraken: An Anatomy
ISBN:	034549749X (ISBN13: 9780345497499)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel (2011), The Kitschies Nominee for Red Tentacle (2010), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fantasy (2010)

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Four and a half squidshttps://clsiewert.wordpress.com/2015/...Enter that room and you breached a Schwarzschild radius of something not canny, and that cephalopod corpse was the singularity.I rather get why Miévilles normally fantastic fanish fans dont like Kraken much. I will note that Ive had intermediate success with Miéville, finding a couple of his works quite memorable and some quite putdownable. Kraken is one I enjoyed muchly, primarily due to its absurdity, the absence of didacticism, and

Kraken marks a digression for Mieville from his familiar madcap style. Where before we had come to expect moody, slow-burn plots interrupted by sudden action, and just as suddenly back to introspection, we now get a story that is dramatic, unbroken, and streamlined in punchy chapters and theatrical quick-cuts.His vibrant, poetical asides into mad science and techno-thaumaturgy have been toned down: no longer a virulent undercurrent, twisting and shaping his world, they have become curiosities

This book is crazy.Now, either China Miéville writes your kind of crazy or he doesn't. If you read this book and think "This is crazy...but it kind of makes sense," then you're good to go. However, if you have to ditch it after 100 pages because all you can think is "WTF?", then this book is not for you.What makes it difficult is that Miéville tends to plunge you into his crazy world and hopes you'll hold on long enough to start to enjoy the ride. He's not big on info-dumping or exposition.

DNF at 25 %I started with high expectations and I really wanted to like this book.The story sounded really good: A giant squid, a museums curator protagonist, London, magic, all kinds of cults, theft and murder, the end of the world and lots of weirdness.Unfortunately the execution just did not speak to me.I dont think its a bad book, but it is definitely not my taste.

Kraken gave me a severe case of goodreaditus, an unpleasant condition whereby as you are reading a book you are constantly thinking not about the book itself but how you are going to review it. For example I thought maybe I could borrow the voice of Cher Horowitz from CluelessHere's the four-one-one on Billy Harrow. He's like a squid janitor, he's single, he's 24 or something, quite old, and he earns minor duckets for a thankless job. What that man needs is a good healthy boinkfest.

"Now look," said Billy, in an uncertain approximation of his reasonable voice. "What's all this about? Can't someone tell me?""Oh, for fuck's sake," replied Collingwood in disgust. "Someone's been trying to tell you for most of your sodding life. You just won't listen, will you? But if you want something more explicit, there's always Goodreads."She opened a grubby-looking Apple Powerbook with a Hello Kitty sticker on the lid and began typing."What's Goodreads got to do with it?" whispered Billy,