The Mirage
Format: kindle
ASIN: B005HF9CCU
Publish date: February 7th 2012
Publisher: Harper
Pages no: 451
Edition language: English
Ruff’s first novel Fool on the Hill is one of my favourite all-time books while his Bad Monkeysis an acid trip of a read. (In a good way.) But I wasn’t sure how The Mirage would land. Well, he did a brilliant job. I love books featuring alternate histories or even just alternate cities. Ruff took th...
Mocno obawiałem się tego tytułu będąc negatywnie nastawiony do świata arabskiego. Natomiast recenzenci dawali dobre noty tej publikacji, wiec dałem jej szansę i nie zawiodłem się. Bohaterowie pomimo tego, że są arabami, okazali się być za razem ludźmi, a sama fabuła mnie wkręciła niczym śrubokręt śr...
The best parts of Matt Ruff's alternate War on Terror world are when the story seems like a waking dream: characters sense their version of events is not quite the reality, yet the scenes are infused with details too vivid to be anything less. These parts, especially during the first half of the no...
This novel was...bizarre. I thought the premise sounded extremely interesting which is why I checked it out from the library, but the execution fell flat. It's not that the writing was bad (I thought it was actually quite good, actually, which is why I kept reading even after I realized I wasn't int...
Do you remember where you were when the towers fell? Mustafa al Baghdadi does. He was busting whiskey smugglers on the Tigris River when he saw the planes, hijacked by Christian fundamentalist insurgents, crash into the Tigris and Euphrates Twin Towers, ultimately bringing them down. That act, on...
Log in with Facebook 
