The Gone-Away World is a book that I enjoyed thoroughly, yet wasn't excited by. I'm not sure why - it had many of the attributes that I usually love. A certain sense of surrealism, of humour, of a meandering storyline, and threatening things just out of the edges of my vision. Yet I finished it feel...
I can understand that some would give up after the first couple of pages — it's a pretty weird, possibly juvenile, introduction to the story.But it turns out to be surprisingly similar to the last book I read, Zendegi: a well-thought-out investigation into what it means to be human. Zendegi asked t...
Opening: "Chapter One. Where it all began; pigs and crisis; close encounters with management. The lights went out in the Nameless Bar just after nine."This is a book which is extremely hard to describe. It is a comedy, except when it's not. It's a treatise on the foolishness of war, except when it's...
Another miss for me. Plenty of lovely witty lines and the kind of delight in distraction--in narrative hijinks--I usually love. But I found myself stuck, slogging through, which is symptomatic of my recent attempts (and thus probably no good diagnosis of this novel's actual merits).
It's hard to describe this book in more detail than what's on the cover blurb without giving spoilers. In theory, it's a post-apocalyptic science fiction/adventure story, but it's really about friendship, loyalty, doing the right thing, and ninjas.This is one of those books where it's the way it's w...
The book is full of dense, well written prose. It's a good book, but the density of the prose did slow down the pace.I really liked the narrator and his slightly bizarre world. I liked his relationship with Elizabeth and Master Wu and I loved Evangelist. I liked the story a lot less after the Fight ...
Wow. WOW! I never, ever had the foggiest idea what would happen next, and it was great! It was kinda rough to get into it, but once it had me I just couldn't stop. I felt like I had to earn the right to find out what happened in the end by paying close attention to the lengthy tangents of seemin...
Everything about this book is entertaining. I don't think I've ever been as entertained in my entire life. I carried this book around with me everywhere and probably embarrassed myself reading it in public places, but it's the kind of book that you never want to stop reading. The Gone-Away World has...
The narrator's tone is a cross between that of Pushing Daisies, Spider Jerusalem, and Kurt Vonnegut. Trippy, stylized, rambunctious and weird, with a highly political undertone. Years ago, mankind's most fearsome weapon was invented: the Go Away bomb. Simply put, it removed its targets from exis...
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