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Nymphomation (Paperback)

by Jeff Noon (Author)
3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (19 customer reviews)

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  • Paperback: 363 pages
  • Publisher: Corgi Books; New edition edition (1 Oct 1998)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0552144797
  • ISBN-13: 978-0552144797
  • Product Dimensions: 19.7 x 12.7 x 2.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 375,976 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Imagine living in a city where the lottery has become the most important thing in everyone's life. Imagine that the lottery is based on dominoes, which only form their winning or losing combination as the Friday night draw is made. Imagine that people will kill to obtain winning dominoes. Imagine adverts exhorting you to play the lottery as they fly around in the air. Now set all that in Manchester in 1999.

Nymphomation presents an alternate reality in which Manchester has become a test bed for the new game and its sinister undertones. The story is driven by characters recognisable as real people--students, street dwellers, musicians, waiters. They get caught up in what becomes for some of them a fight to the death to defeat the controlling power of the lottery and its head, Mr Million.

Noon writes with an accomplished mix of wit and darkness, and manages to invent a whole dictionary of new words along the way. Whoompy burgers sponsor the police and control the Net, blurbflies carry the adverts around the streets and the nymphomania itself tries to control but has to be controlled. The upshot is an imaginative and disturbing horror/cyberpunk/science fiction mix with plenty of harsh reality and social comment thrown in. --Sandra Vogel

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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.

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars He did it again!, 28 April 2001
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Nymphomation is not (in my opinion) the best of Noon's books. That honour is reserved for Vurt, a book for which five stars can never be enough. If you want to make complete sense of Nymphomation, you should really read Vurt, Pollen and Automated Alice first (and if you do the poignant surprise at the end of the book will blow you away). Then again, you can read this one on it's own and it wil still make a brilliant entertaining read. This world just isn't big enough to encompass the contents of Jeff Noon's mind, but thankfully he has created one that is. I guarantee you'll fall in love with at least one character and pine for them, and you'll find yourself wishing you were one of the others. Read it, then read it again and again and again.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars First time Reader of Noon. Fantastic, 28 Jun 2004
This review is from: Nymphomation (Paperback)
I was on holiday with friends and one of the them had left Nymphomation on the table. I was intrigued by the cover and read the sysnopsis on the book. To be honest I thought It sounded like a load of c**p. I dont know why I started reading. I think I wanted to see just what sort of rubbish my friend was reading.

The prose style was completley new to me and was very weird at first.

But I was engrossed to such an extent that while me friends were having a night out in Barcelona I was read the book in a single sitting. Finishing it at 5am just as the rest of them rolled in a drunken stuper.

I was slightly dissapointed in the ending as for me it went a little OTT. But otherwise I would recomend this book and look forward to reading other Noon books

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars One of the most original writers around, 3 April 2001
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Jeff Noon is not a cyberpunk author. People often expect his fiction to be something close to Stephenson or Gibson, but his brand of science fiction is about dreams and music, rather than algorithms and implants. Like the other books of his I have read this is a sharp, darkly allegorical story taking sex and mathematics, the ultimate lottery and the socially excluded and throwing them together into a maze with endlessly shifting walls. It connects with his other work set in the world of the Vurt, filling in a few more spaces in the mystery of how that world works, and how it got that way. I would recommend reading Vurt and Pollen first, but this book is more than strong enough to stand alone.

Don't read this book if you want hard, gadget-heavy sci-fi, read it if you want something innovative and different from anything by any other writer you should give this serious thought.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Good But Repetitive and Unconvincing in Places . . .
See, here's the problem I have with Jeff Noon. Vurt and Falling Out of Cars are two of the best science fiction novels I've ever read. Read more
Published 13 months ago by Mr. A. D. H. Lowe

2.0 out of 5 stars Nympossible to understand
This is the first Jeff Noon book that I have read and it will probably be my last. I am a fan of Sci Fi and am not afraid of a different style of writing. Read more
Published on 24 Oct 2006 by Sam

5.0 out of 5 stars More Noon for me!
Written with a unique poetic verve that transports the reader to Noon's invented world, I found the story absolutely compelling, the characters engaging, and the language... Read more
Published on 26 Sep 2006 by Green Pixie

5.0 out of 5 stars Vurt book 4...or 2?
Jeff Noon's 4th novel `Nymphomation' is also the authors 4th (and at the time of writing final) book in the series he began with `Vurt'. Read more
Published on 27 Aug 2006 by dogbarkssome

5.0 out of 5 stars Front to Back
So, what's with Noon. For those of you in the dark (as I was not that long ago) Jeff Noon wrote "Vurt", a truely cyberpunk fantasy set in Manchester. Read more
Published on 20 Mar 2004 by mbutcher23

5.0 out of 5 stars Style and Rythm are everything! noon is wonderfull.
If you can't handle books which are written in an alternative style, then don't even bother to pick this book up. Read more
Published on 28 Aug 2001

5.0 out of 5 stars Stunning
A brilliant ride through the pre-Vurt world. Jeff Noon continues to regress through time, going back to the origins of items and themes seen commonplace in his previous novels,... Read more
Published on 16 Feb 2001

1.0 out of 5 stars *sigh* Has anyone got a new view on How The Future Will Be?
Imagine "Hackers" meets "A Clockwork Orange", fourth-rate computer based sci-fi meets sub-sixth-form vision of how the future will be. Read more
Published on 22 Jan 2001

3.0 out of 5 stars RHYTHM AND STEALTH. REAL AND CRAZY.
It's taken me rather a long time to finish reading this book, and I'm sure I've not done it justice. Read more
Published on 21 Jan 2001

4.0 out of 5 stars Great British Sci-Fi
Fantastic, intelligent and original stuff from Jeff Noon, with more clues towards the origins of the Vurt, I found this book an excellent read with mind expanding ideas as good as... Read more
Published on 9 Mar 2000

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