City of Saints and Madmen
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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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This was very hit or miss for me. The stuff that I liked I REALLY liked, but there was just too much that didn't do it for me. The whole appendix, though a nice idea and great worldbuilding, had nothing that really intrigued me. Still a big recommendation. A lot wasn't to my personal taste, but there is so much interesting in this, be it story-wise or artistic choices, that it's worth to take a look at.
Description
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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This was very hit or miss for me. The stuff that I liked I REALLY liked, but there was just too much that didn't do it for me. The whole appendix, though a nice idea and great worldbuilding, had nothing that really intrigued me. Still a big recommendation. A lot wasn't to my personal taste, but there is so much interesting in this, be it story-wise or artistic choices, that it's worth to take a look at.