This book led me down paths of assumption and then told me I was wrong, oh so wrong about my assumptions. The narrator tells us a story of his childhood with Gonzo Lubitsch, a childhood that had a number of twists and turns that ends with him in the Army doing covert work, an end that has the world...
Outstanding book. It was witty and smart, and always threw me in new directions as I read it. Once I understood that the book went back in time after the opening sequence and then caught up to the opening then continued forward, my initial confusion was gone.A bit lengthy at moments, but everything ...
Kurt Vonnegut Jr! T. Coraghessan Boyle! Joseph Heller (maybe)! Tom Robbins! and now it appears that Nick Harkaway can be added to the list of humanistic, cynical, insanely creative authors who truck in wild & wooly tales that blur the boundaries between reality & fantasy and are filled with enormous...
It is probably good for both of us that GR reviews have a character limit. For me, so there is a limit on my copyright violations. For you, so you won't have to read every line that I found amazing, remarkable, thoughtful, or funny. It took me two reads to compile my thoughts on The Gone-Away World,...
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...
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