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'An intriguing and accomplished novel: funny, inventive, and ultimately cheering.' Washington Post; 'A droll, downbeat vision that is both original and persuasive.' Newsweek
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an intriguing and accomplished novel: funny, inventive and ultimately cheering.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Set in a post apocalyptic USA, nothing is quite as it seems. Chaos, aka Everett, the main character cannot remember exactly who he is let alone what caused the break from the world before to the world now, and he cannot find satisfactory answers in Hatfork Wyoming, the dilapidated town populated with mutants where he has a position of some sort of oversight, so he sets of to find answers, taking with him a young mutant girl.
He may not find all the answers he's looking for, but along the way he does find love and hope, although it may not exactly match the dreams he's been having, the dreams that started his doubting.
In Amnesia Moon dreams and reality become confused in a sort of modern day Alice in Wonderland; funny, thought provoking and highly imaginative.
He may not find all the answers he's looking for, but along the way he does find love and hope, although it may not exactly match the dreams he's been having, the dreams that started his doubting.
In Amnesia Moon dreams and reality become confused in a sort of modern day Alice in Wonderland; funny, thought provoking and highly imaginative.
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I bought this as I'm a big fan of post-apocalyptic sci-fi books and I found it in a second hand bookshop by accident. I'd never heard of it, which is unusual as I've read literally dozens of books in the genre, so it was immediately interesting. Unfortunately, the story didn't live up to my expectations.
My problem with the book isn't that it isn't what I expected as such, it's that the story makes no sense. It begins with a man called Chaos who lives in the projection room of an old cinema in a small Wyoming town. It appears that the tale is set some time after a nuclear war as food is scarce, there are lots of mutants in the town and everything is decaying (although they do have loads of petrol to drive cars somehow). It soon turns out that the nuclear war that all the citizens of the town think happened, actually didn't.
Chaos leaves the town with a young girl who is totally covered in fur in order to find out the truth about the disaster that has ruined the world, and also about his true identity. He visits a number of towns and each one has its own explanation and bizarre way of living. Nobody seems to remember exactly what happened, and people's dreams seem to shape reality around them.
This could have been quite entertaining, and bits of the book are. There are some great ideas, but a lot of really surreal stuff that I either didn't understand, or that was just a bit tedious. On top of that, there's not an ending in the traditional sense, which was frustrating. Not a massively enjoyable book for me, but it wasn't so bad that I couldn't finish it.
My problem with the book isn't that it isn't what I expected as such, it's that the story makes no sense. It begins with a man called Chaos who lives in the projection room of an old cinema in a small Wyoming town. It appears that the tale is set some time after a nuclear war as food is scarce, there are lots of mutants in the town and everything is decaying (although they do have loads of petrol to drive cars somehow). It soon turns out that the nuclear war that all the citizens of the town think happened, actually didn't.
Chaos leaves the town with a young girl who is totally covered in fur in order to find out the truth about the disaster that has ruined the world, and also about his true identity. He visits a number of towns and each one has its own explanation and bizarre way of living. Nobody seems to remember exactly what happened, and people's dreams seem to shape reality around them.
This could have been quite entertaining, and bits of the book are. There are some great ideas, but a lot of really surreal stuff that I either didn't understand, or that was just a bit tedious. On top of that, there's not an ending in the traditional sense, which was frustrating. Not a massively enjoyable book for me, but it wasn't so bad that I couldn't finish it.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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I picked this up because I'd really enjoyed Lethem's "Gun With Occasional Music", "Motherless Brooklyn", and parts of "The Wall of the Sky, The Wall of the Eye". Unfortunately, this surrealist sci-fi road-trip never leads anywhere interesting. Chaos, the amnesiac hero, is on a quest to discover the truth of what what happened the world (we are given hints of alien attack, nuclear/biological holocaust, etc.) and his own identity. However, memory, time and truth seem to be totally subjective in this landscape and are somehow dictated and controlled by his dreams. The overwhelming subjectivity results in a surprisingly dull roadtrip, as he struggles to find himself in a world which makes no sense. As with some of Lethem's other work (especially his short stories), there are a some interesting ideas, flashes of genius writing, and the sense that Lethem doesn't know how to finish what he's started. Unless you're really into dreamlike surrealism, skip this one, 'cause Lethem's capable of much better.
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plotless
An often hilarious, frequenty scary and totally mesmerising first few chapters (the McDonaldonians are genius) gives way to a story with no mcguffin and no explanation. Read more
Published on 13 July 2006 by deadmanjones
Utterly mental brilliance
Firstly, to suggest this is a science fiction novel is to do it a disservice - I think that there are some echoes of Philip K. Dick, but this is more surrealism than sci-fi. Read more
Published on 17 July 2003 by Tristan Fitzgerald
The Putty Clock
I've been a great fan of Lethem since I picked up Gun, With Occasional Music while travelling to Amsterdam. Read more
Published on 4 Feb 2003 by P. S. Hansen
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