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Summary: ITS UPSIDEDOWN AND INSIDE OUT. DISTURBINGLY WONDERFUL.
Review: To start at the end is to start at the beginning. Complelling reading for all with a broad and vivid imagination. The lack of time reference is great. Is it Manchester now or in the future? Scribble is the main character, The thing is an alien, there's a kid, a girlfriend, psycho selfish friend and the Game Cat. The character are simple in definition with a depth of personality the book never explains but shines through with neon clarity. The concept - Mind altering drugs which take you to another world which is real with the sublime depth of knowledge living as a dream. The stash Riders are out to find a lost Sister. Friends, sacrifice, and a big snarling dog. To put it quite simply VURT! Read it or never feel the twist of mine and your reality.
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Summary: It's the Vurt-U-Want
Review: Vurt is a wild ride across the dreamscape of the mind. An excellent first novel, that promises the reader both excitementfor this work and for future works by Mr. Noon. The characters are fairly well developed, and the landscape both visual and surreal. The storyline involves a futuristic drug, a thing from outer space, a "gang" and a lost love. The drug causes the usual societal problems, crime, sex, violence, and lack of respect for police. But it also leads the protaganist on a journey of learning, longing and metaphysical discovery. Not bad for a brightly colored feather and a bunch of Dog People, Robots, humans and various combinations of those. While I wouldn't want to call it, like the book jacket does, the "Clockwork Orange of the '90's," it is a futuristic, rampaging youth, thriller that performs well. I look forward to reading more from Mr. Noon.
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Summary: Amazing
Review: This book is a dazzling journey which plunges you into a psychedelic, grimy near-future ruled by anarchy. Jeff Noon possesses an incredible creativity that at times creeps you out with its perversity but never fails to stagger you with its power. It would be very interesting to get a cup of coffee with this guy and have a conversation with him. In a nutshell the book is about a man who loses his sister in another dimension of sorts (called a vurt) only accessible through use of a rare and highly dangerous feather drug. His quest to find her is an unusual and thoroughly exciting ride even if I'm not quite sure what deeper message it is trying to send. 'Vurt' is well worth reading for its truly unique nature and its ability to draw you in and hold you under its spell. It is that rare novel which cannot be adequately described - it must be experienced.
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Summary: The most true-to-life science fiction ever
Review: I am not the world's biggest science fiction fan, but Jeff Noon just may have converted me to his world. This book was just a little something I picked up to bide my time in the airport, and it quickly turned into something that rarely occurs in my life... a favorite book. Noon's portrayal of this bizarre world where feathers take you to alternate universes is not so far off from the truth, and the allegory of Vurt is so perfect in its expression and imagination that it's hard to escape the world of Vurt once you've put the book down. And you won't ever want to put it down. The characters are real and imaginary at the same time... reading into their lives is like falling in love with your fantasies. Read it now... it's cheaper than drugs and there's no come down. I promise.
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Summary: First rate debut for Jeff Noon
Review: Move over Virtual Reality - this is Vurt, a state of mind, an existence between reality and dreamland, solidly unreal, a way of life for the unpure, the ultimate combination of altered states and computer games. To enter Vurt requires a feather, the flights coloured: blue is pleasure, legal and safe; black is horror and/or love, illegal and dangerous; pink is for porno in all its forms; silver is for the makers of feathers, used as a tool; and yellow, no escape, play to the end or die.
Original is too insipid an adjective to describe Jeff Noon's first novel - seminal, promethean, the prototype of a new genre of science fiction. The style of writing is reminiscent of Gibson, clear, sharp, and immediate. Explicit, concrete and ultimately real images contrast with the confusion of the protagonist Scribbles, from whose perspective we search through the world and creatures of Vurt for his sister, Desdemona. He is assisted or obstructed by a mongrel caste of single-minded characters whose roles are determined by the nature of their involvement with Vurt.
The world depicted in the novel is disturbing, psychotic and insidious, and the overall impression is as psychedelic as the cover. A fractal read, addictive and highly recommended
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Summary: More Punk than Cyber
Review: "Vurt", or should I say "VURTual reality" is, in one way, indeed the central theme of this book ... but with a twist! "Vurt" gives a fresh and new perspective on the realm of cyber punk. Drugs, or feathers, are superbly described and also include the alternative reality of drugs intrinsically, i.e. an experience more than merely a "rush". With the easy and down-to-earth usage of his language, Noon slowly guides the reader into the plot. Excellent, compelling and a bit confusing in the beginning. But rest assured that before the book is finished you will have become entirely engrossed in this wonderful and wierd universe. The book itself is a feather to be swallowed, a life to follow, a reality to merged with and an experience to become engulfed in. Thumbs up for Jeff, way to go!
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Summary: Like Drugs
Review: Vurt takes you down, in, out, and through a drug warped reality of the future. Always entertaining and intoxicating. Vurt gives you access to another world....Go visit!
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Summary: One of the best
Review: This is most definately one of the best books there are to read out there. The plot pulls you into the Vurt, it's amazing. This is Noon's best work, no doubt.
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Summary: A disappointing read
Review: I bought this book on the strength of winning an Arthur C. Clark award and the customer reviews on Amazon.com.
It didn't work for me. The characters were thin and the plot was plodding and stiff.
I will consider more carefully the recomendations on Amazon.com.
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Summary: A Feather Full of Dreams
Review: "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 feathers can hold their fondest dreams or worst nightmares, where the worst poison comes from dreamsnakes, where pure is poor, and where shadowcops lurk above every all-night Vurt-U-Want. Scribble is a young man, not so out of the ordinary, who wants nothing more than to have his sister back again. That want drives him to a destiny he'd not even considered, gaining and losing almost everything in the process. I'm enamoured with this book. It stays on my nightstand so I can hear Scribble tell his story whenever I want. Let Jeff Noon take you into his tangibly ethereal world.
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