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The Gone-Away World (2008)

by Nick Harkaway(Favorite Author)

4.17 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0434018422 (ISBN13: 9780434018420)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

William Heinemann

review 1: Great fun. Feels like an author's cut that needs a stiff edit. Too many digressive monologues and paragraphs, even pages of schoolboy observations that could get tedious and nearly cost it two stars. But it feels churlish to mark down a book that managed to successfully get evil ninjas fighting special forces trained gong fu practitioners for the fate of an imaginatively sculpted world. At its best it read like a successful collaboration between Terry Pratchet, Neil Gaiman and Bruce Lee.
review 2: I will have to read this again. A dystopian future when the world as we understand it has `gone away' and people fight to retain what is left of the world we think we know. Or do they? I found the over detailed descriptions sometimes confused the understanding of an ... morealready complex plot and therefore I need to return to this story at a later date when I can give it more attention. The fact that I am willing to reread it however does indicate that that it is well worth extra time. less

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