Vurt

I LOVED this book. It's unlike any other science fiction book...or any book for that matter...that I've ever read. Jeff Noon writes in such a way that whether you want to be or not, you're swept up in the book's quick pace. It's fun...like a chocolate sunday (okay I am a girl!)... and it's deliciously weird. It take a few pages to get in tune with his way of writing, which is part of the fun, and when you do it's a roller... Read Full Review

Noon catapults the reader into world in which the boundaries between dreams and reality have collapsed. The unreal becomes more real than the real. A hypnotizing adventure, I read it in a single spellbound sitting. I cannot recommend this book enough. Inspired.

"A young boy puts a feather into his mouth..."From the first sentence of the book, I was drawn in. I forced myself to read only one chapter at a time, to actually consider what I'd read and let it sink in, and that made this book that much richer. To me, it heralded back to Clockwork Orange. The Stash Riders (made up of Scribble, Beetle, Mandy, and Bridget) have their own vocabulary grown from the world they inhabit - where... Read Full Review

Vurt is unique.The more you read,the more original it gets.It starts off like some crappy cheap cyberpunk book-a bunch of sterotypes robbing a drugstore,but soon turns into an incredibly original maelstrom of twisted events fluxing in and out of a cyber-plethoric orgy of reality and dream world.It's towards the end,where you really learn of the relationship between the main hero and his sister,that the reader is blown away.It... Read Full Review

Vurt, by Jeff Noon is one of the most creative books that I have read in the sf & f world. It seems almost like a combo of A Clockwork Orange (the way Jeff Noon invents words, deriving them from words already in existance; also the all night Vurt-You-Want is analagous to the Korova Milkbar), Neuromancer (the general style of writing, cyberpunk theme), and Alice's Adventure's in Wonderland (the sort of mysticism that surrounds... Read Full Review