Books by Jeff Noon
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review 1: So glad he's back, noon's ideas are so imaginative they will touch everything you see evermore. I read this really quickly and have read a lot since but the imagery and idea of this are so original and meaningful and relevant they cut through everything else. Not a huge fan of th...
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review 1: Über Gelb habe ich einmal den schönen Satz gelesen:The novel resembles nothing as much as an episode of Scooby Doo, written by William Bourroughs.(in: Andrew M. Butler: Cyberpunk. Pocket Essentials (2000))Und das stimmt: Die Stash Riders sind eine Scooby-Gang, mit einem ekligen D...
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review 1: Jeff Noon's "Pollen" is written in a very nebulous, stream-of-consciousness POV. It's one of those writing styles that requires you to chew on them for a bit until you figure out how to activate the flavor crystals.The world is dense and brimming with layers, hybrid human/animal/...
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review 1: First of all, I think it's unfair to compare this to Lewis'in Carroll's Alice. This may be written like a sequel but it's been written in a completely diffrent era. This book is very good, if you liked the other Alice books you will like this too (unless you are a nostalgia lover...
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review 1: This is one of my all time ever favourite books. I must have bought it at least four times, because I have this terrible tendency to give it away to amazing people that I think will appreciate it. In fact, right now there are two copies on my bookshelf sitting next to each other ...
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review 1: So here's the second Dystopian novel I read. Well! it was definitely lot better than 'Harm'. However, I felt it was a lengthy and a tad boring at some points. Still, I liked it. I liked reading it. I might not go and tell my friends to read it for sure. But sure it served the pur...
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review 1: Wildly inventive, music brought to words, words transliterated into musical sound. If you can imagine such a thing! Verbal dubs, reverb and remixes all dance across the pages. The plot is a bit weak, Noon's usual obsessions with trying to recapture a girl long lost but preserved ...