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EAN: 9780385408127 ISBN: 0385408129 Label: Doubleday Manufacturer: Doubleday Number Of Pages: 362 Publication Date: October 02, 1997 Publisher: Doubleday Studio: Doubleday Editorial Review: Product Description: Manchester is gripped by a new lottery game - "Domino Bones". Every Friday night, Manchester stills as the bones tumble into the winning combination. But there is only one real winner - the company that is taking over the city's dreams. Only a band of students can save the city from takeover. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - excellent bookNoon's Vurt is one of my all time favorite books. Nymphomation is a prequel of sorts to Vurt, which explains what led to the dreamdrug-world obsessed universe of Vurt. Rating: - PLAY TO WIN!After reading Vurt I wanted to know more about the world of dystopian Manchester. Many things are not explicitily explained in Vurt such as Vaz, and the origin of the Vurt feathers. Nymphomation steps in and answers these mysteries (sort of). What I liked about Vurt and Nympho was that Jeff Noon explains the basic properties of some of these items while still leaving enough to the readers imagination and their own interpreation. On to Nymphomation. While this book is not as good ... Read More Rating:  - Science (?) FictionNymphomation takes place in a dystopic future version of Manchester, England, where the populace is in thrall to strange new lottery based on dominos. It's a bleak place where anything and everything is corporate-sponsored, including the schools and the cops, and the air is filled with bio-mechanical advert bugs called blurbflies. A group of renegade mathematicians and hackers thinks there's something fishy about the whole domino system and especially the so-called jealousy killings of lottery winners, ... Read More Rating: - jeff noon is always worthwhileNoon has the best writing style I've come across in this whole 'cyberpunk' genre (or whatever people are calling it these days). His plots and environments are always very imaginative and he breathes a good deal of culture and life into his novels. Instead of focusing on overly-wordy descriptions of computer hardware and jacking-into-the-virtual-cyber-realm-via-the-com-link type thing that too many other authors fall victim to; Noon instead comes up with very different and surreal means of involving future ... Read More Rating:  - never read thisThis is possibly the WORST book that I have ever read! This phenominally badly written book is packed with obviously out of touch attempts to key into areas of youth culture. Cliched and naive imagery and dialogue somehow detract from a simplistic and uninventive narrative. It is predictable, boring and entirely uninteresting. Never read this book. |
