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Jay Lake
Date: 2008-08-27 18:19
Subject: [books] The Gone-Away World
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I’m currently reading an ARC of Nick Harkaway’s The Gone-Away World (Knopf, September, 2008). It’s a hell of a book, I have to say.

It’s about what you would have gotten if Booth Tarkington and James Joyce had sobered up and collaborated on some post-apocalyptic cyberpunk.

Full report later when I’m done, but I strongly suggest you go pre-order this sucker from your local bookseller, or Amazon.com, because I think we have a winner here.

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fjm
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Date: 2008-08-28 10:13 (UTC)
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I beg to differ... it's too long, and spends far too much time on the build up. The book I wanted to read was abotu 300 pages shorter.

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Jay Lake
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Date: 2008-08-28 12:57 (UTC)
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Well, I'm not done yet, but this is the strongest start I've seen since Vellum, at least.

The perils of reviewing a book half-read...

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