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The Gone-Away World (Vintage Contemporaries)
by Nick Harkaway

The Gone-Away World (Vintage Contemporaries)
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Author: Nick Harkaway
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2009-08-11
ISBN: 0307389073
Number of pages: 592
Publisher: Vintage

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Book Review: ****Read This Review Before You Read Any Others!
Summary: 5 Stars

In the early Summer of 2009, I heard an National Public Radio segment on summer book recommendations made by librarian, Nancy Pearl. In the piece she talks about Nick Harkaway's "The Gone-Away World" by saying this:

"I refuse to reveal much about Harkaway's outstanding first novel because I want readers -- and I hope there will be many, many of them -- to discover its joys without prejudice."

After hearing her talk about this book, I bought it, sight-unseen, from Amazon.com, and after finishing it, I could not agree more with Ms. Pearl. This is a discovery you need to make on your own.

All I will say is that it contains the following elements:

> A post-apocalyptic world.
> A long pipe.
> A cow.
> Some geese.
> Ninjas.
and
> Mimes.

What we have here is one of the most unique books written by a debut author in many years. It is entertaining, surprising, touching, shocking, and just plain thrilling. You will reach a certain point in the story where you will want to re-read everything you just read because a shift occurs that changes everything, and that shift took me by surprise.

If you like your novels to have a sort of "kick-ass and take no prisoners" quality to it, this is the book for you. You will be missing out on a very good read if you don't buy this book.

If you are even thinking of reading this, STOP READING THE REVIEWS and buy the book! If you're anything like me, you'll love it. It's the kind of discovery that makes me love reading books.

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