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Veniss Underground (Paperback)

by Jeff VanderMeer (Author)
3.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)

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  • Paperback: 400 pages
  • Publisher: Tor (17 Oct 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1405032685
  • ISBN-13: 978-1405032681
  • Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 159,464 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"A magnificently phantasmagoric account of an epic journey of discovery. It is rare to find such intense visual imagery combined with such a fast-paced and far-reaching narrative, and the alloy is as hectically exciting as it is luminously brilliant. Brian Stableford "A dark, phantasmagoric tale... that echoes Dante's Divine Comedy, the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, and the landscapes of Hieronymus Bosch" PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

Michael Moorcock, The Guardian, December 2003
A nightmare vision that shows off VanderMeer's many virtues. The denouement is as powerful as any I have read.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Giant talking deadly meerkats are cool, 9 Jul 2008
By B. J. Crossley "crossleysmn2" (England) - See all my reviews
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as a reader of jeffs short stories-a big reader of them, i have them all- and really thinking they were good, espcially the writing, i was shocked to read this book. It might as well have been written by someone else. none of the elegant similies and graceful literary devices that adorn his short stories are present.

I canr even remeber what this novel was about it was so average. Something about a Giant Meerkat that was sent to kill this woman because her twin brother pissed off the Government or something like that. it was a dreary affair.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Veniss Underground, 8 Nov 2006
This is Vandermeer's first Novel and is wonderfully crafted. It reminds me of a Dali painting - both grotesque and glorious on the same page. This is not a typical Science Fiction book. It has elements of the finest horror and fantasy in a world just about familiar enough to believe in. His style is free flowing and easy, with language that makes you feel you are with the characters. The three main Characters are written in different tenses, this just adds to the feel of the book and Characters. I read this in one sitting and at times wanted to block out some the images Vandermeer made me create in my head, but at the same time wanted to know what happened next. A wonderful journey and a lesson as to where our world might go.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Veniss Underground - A Fantastic and Absorbing World, 25 Jul 2004
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Meerkats are benign creatures, are they not? The sort of small furry mammal that peers timidly from a burrow with a David Attenborough voiceover, harmless, cuddly even, if you got close enough...that is in this world, the one I'm in. But in the world of Veniss, which is described so vividly by Mr Vandermeer that I came to inhabit that one too, the meerkat is sly, vindictive, genetically engineered, intent on following his heinous purpose. This is just one of a host of memorable characters that horrify and amaze in Venis Underground. The writing is ambitious and exciting, the journey and characters fantastic and yet believable. It is a world that lurks in your mind long after you have finished the final page and absorbs you absolutely while you are there - a great and satisfyingly gruesome escape.
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