Comments on: Plot summary, courtesy of Publishers Weekly

By: Philippe Mongeau

Philippe Mongeau — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 00:02:14 +0000

Just got this book from the library, can't wait to read it.

By: David

David — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 20:00:32 +0000

This book is a masterpiece, I delighted on its mixture of the banal and the utterly weird, and the sometimes casual acceptance of the characters to the ongoing weirdness. It was touching, clever and occaisonaly shocking. I got it as a free download for the stanza app, you can bet I'm going to buy some of Doctrow's other works. Great!

By: discontinuuity

discontinuuity — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 07:09:11 +0000

This is by far one of the strangest books I've ever read. Even after reading almost halfway through it, I was expecting some plot points to be delusions by one character or another. The ending still isn't totally clear to me; I don't know exactly what happened or who to blame for what, but I suppose that doesn't matter as much. The description of grass-roots technology was interesting, but I think this world needs more far-out or surrealist fiction like this. Reminds me a bit of "The Persistence of Vision" by John Varley: "strange" people cut off from society, trying to make sense of the world.

By: katie.

katie. — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 06:07:05 +0000

I bought the book at Borders.. I'm only on page 60-something. And I love it. Mostly because it's almost impossible to completely understand. It sort of reminds Me of Danielewski's House of Leaves. In it's oddness. Great job!

By: Joshua

Joshua — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 22:25:28 +0000

Ah, man, so many words to read... who has that sort of time and dedication? I wonder if my Powerbook's mic will record a decent audiobook format... Probably not...

By: LinhThan

LinhThan — Mon, 27 Jun 2005 18:24:23 +0000

It sounds interesting. Thanks the author,thanks for your kind of distribution. I will translate this into Vietnamese and will be gratefully to have your signature there. Contact me ,please.

By: Phronk

Phronk — Tue, 21 Jun 2005 06:10:47 +0000

This is either the best book in the history of the universe...or just too weird for its own good. I think I'll read it, since it's free 'n all. Thanks!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 20 Jun 2005 08:08:32 +0000

erm. this got published. lol