Customer Reviews

Nymphomation

5 star:		(12)
4 star:		(5)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(3)

 

 

Jeff Noon is probably one of the most clever and talented word artists in the Sci genere today. I have read several of his books (even a few I had to get off the UK Amazon site) and I am increasingly impressed. That said, Nyphomation is BY FAR my favorite. Not only can this man think and write but he manages to make it all fun. Having read Vurt first it was just a pleasure when I read Nyphomation and learned what exactly Vaz was and who this Hobart person was (Noon is like Hienline that way). If you haven't read it yet then I am jealous of you cause you are really in for a treat.

Nymphomation was an intense reading experience unlike one I've ever had before. Once I realized it was a prequel to Vurt, one of my favorite books, I became even more interested in it. I hate to use cliches, but this book really WAS a non-stop roller coaster ride. It was fast-paced and thrilling, nail-biting and had me "on the edge of my seat."

But seriously - the tension in this book was so high that when I finally finished it - reading the last 200 pages in one long nonstop burst - I screamed to release everything that was pent up inside. If you want a book that will throw you into another world and won't let you out even after the book is closed, read Nymphomation.

Just finished Jeff Noon's latest juicy morsel and I'm buzzing like a blurbfly! This has to be one of Noon's best books yet, filled with all the cyber-grit, humor, and vazed up sexiness that readers have learned to expect from Noon. Play to win my children! This book is jazzing from start to finish. Even I was hoping to win, holding a phantom domino bone in my hand, waiting for Cookie Luck to finish her dance. It's domino time, get this baby while you can and be careful my kittlings this is not a tome to be handled lightly.

after vurt, by far the best work i've read of noon's. filled with clever tie ins and catch phrases i find myself repeating in casual conversation, nyphomation made me remember why i used to go around telling people that "now that i think about it....i'm pretty sure it was _all_ yellow.

I thought Vurt and Pollen were great adventures, and now i think this one is too. Nymphomation is just as interesting and mind-twisting as all his other books. I loved it.

I never thought maths could be sexy. This is easily the best book from the Vurt series, the literary equivalent of listening to Autechre or Funkstorung, Strange and alien, yet emotional, and beautiful. This is not science fiction, it's much too good for that.

This book serves as a fantastic prequel to Vurt and Pollen, answering many of the questions you didn't even realize you were asking. Pansexuality, curry, game shows, and mass obsessive-compulsive disorder-- delicious reading.

Nymphomation takes place in a dystopic future version of Manchester, England, where the populace is in thrall to strange new lottery based on dominos. It's a bleak place where anything and everything is corporate-sponsored, including the schools and the cops, and the air is filled with bio-mechanical advert bugs called blurbflies. A group of renegade mathematicians and hackers thinks there's something fishy about the whole domino system and especially the so-called jealousy killings of lottery winners, so they decide to try to break the system. Sounds like a good idea, no? But...

I have really mixed feelings about this book. On the one hand it has a really great premise, some cool characters, a interesting and well developed backdrop and a writing style which is very modern, flashy, playful and fun to read, but (and this is a very big 'but') it's just not believable. Noon's trying to write science fiction, and he gets the fiction part really down pat, but he totally fumbles on the science, which makes it almost painful to read at times.

There are all kinds of things that are just inexplicable, (or maybe just badly explained), the main one being the blurbflies and their weird reproductive abilities, but all of the computer and hacking stuff seems like it was written by someone who doesn't have clue about computers and sounds almost magical rather than technological.

So I guess I'd have to give it a C. The writing really is quite fun, but the fakey-ness of all the science bits is just too much.

Seemingly created for the children of the vurt craze nymphomation dots upon our hearts, minds, and past as it weeves its self into its own vurty history. Strongly mathamatic, vibrant in fractals, the book has just as much value in forming a creative playground for the conundrum conusor as it does providing edge of your seat entertainment.

This is probably my favorite Jeff Noon book and he is one of my favorite writers so in my humble opinion you will like this book. It pains me that there haven't been more books by Noon in the last several years. This is one that I am happy to reread whenever I need some good futuristic, hallucinogenic, math-loving fun.