If you were to sequentially lay out the events that transpired in PopCo, it wouldn't look like there's a lot going on.On the surface, it's the story of Alice Butler, a developer of children's codebreaking games for a multi-national toy company PopCo, who goes to a conference and gets chosen to devel...
When Ariel Manto, a PhD student working on research on though experiments comes across a book called 'The End of Mr. Y', a book she thought she would never find, a book so rare it is almost only known as a legend, on a second-hand book shop, Ariel has no idea how much her life will change because of...
The best: The cover art is quite cute & fetching.The rest: You know, I love metafiction, modernist books, mind-bending topics, surrealism, etc..., so I thought this might be a fun book. It's not. The characters are messed up & that's just not fun or interesting to read about page after page. I'm 182...
Scarlett Thomas's The End of Mr. Y is one of the books I absolutely fell in love with, on nearly every level, but it was the only book of hers I could get my hands on for years. So when I saw that they'd republished Going Out (and Our Tragic Universe, which I'll be reading next), you can imagine my ...
The author claims that she didn't want this to turn into a "shaggy God story" - but that's exactly what it is. I loved the characters, the philosophy and the science, but the ending was desperately disappointing. I'll be intrigued to see what Scarlett Thomas comes up with next though...
The stories in this collection range in quality and direction, which is usual for the early short stories of a well-known author. "Kew Gardens" is the best blend of Woolf's execution of ideas, although there isn't much story development present. However, there is coherence that binds it together. "A...
Ariel is a perpetual grad student with an attraction to danger and a penchant for self-harm. Her love of literature gets scary when she tangles with a cursed book - the End of Mr. Y. Her adventure takes her to another dimension of this world, and another dimension of her compassion for mice.
I think I`m too stupid for this book. I don`t know..I don`t get it. But regardless, this book is not as good as it`s trying to be. Does that make any sense?
This is one of those frustrating novels that leaves you immensely impressed yet somewhat disappointed. The impressive part is the way the author combines the mind-boggling philosophies of Heidegger and Derrida (yes, frigging Derrida!) into a fantasy regarding alternate realities, mind travel, and ev...
Have you ever been at a party and been cornered by that special breed of person who thinks they are the best read, most highly evolved intellect on the plant and their one goal in life is to convince you and anyone else who will listen of this (in their mind) indisputable fact. This book is the lite...
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