I really do think that the narrator is little more than a vehicle for Harkaway's prose for most of the novel. So while the novel is clever and funny, the narrator is not. You don't... warm to him. He's not the average joe, he uses his educated prose to denigrate other educated people AND maintain a degree of authority in his blue-collar company (and seemingly it is the only way he can do so since he is always overshadowed by Gonzo his love), and he keeps telling you the same thing over and over.
Until the twist, where you realise who and what he is. Or rather, when HE realises who and what he is. I stand by how clever that is. And I really wish I had not read that Gaiman and Pratchett.
But... he's not someone to warm up to. I need a character to latch on to when I am reading, or people - and the narrator gives me almost none.
Until the twist, where you realise who and what he is. Or rather, when HE realises who and what he is. I stand by how clever that is. And I really wish I had not read that Gaiman and Pratchett.
But... he's not someone to warm up to. I need a character to latch on to when I am reading, or people - and the narrator gives me almost none.
Ah, I used all the minor characters for that. I usually do. Another similiarity to Buffy, if you will. Wu, Elisabeth, Elisabeth's mother, the Bey...
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The Gone-Away World by Nick Harkaway
10/05/2010 06:01:50 PM
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Which Gaiman and Pratchett? *SPOILERS*
10/05/2010 09:51:01 PM
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Nice review! I'll read it at some point, in time for the book club if not earlier...
10/05/2010 09:55:22 PM
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Re: I'm resigned to being the only person who didn't like it.
10/05/2010 09:58:10 PM
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It did not remind me of Buffy.
10/05/2010 10:00:41 PM
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Re: SPOILERS for season seven of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
10/05/2010 10:18:45 PM
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Re: SPOILERS for season seven of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
10/05/2010 10:26:13 PM
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I don't like it so far. About 150-200 pages in. Not impressed.
10/05/2010 10:02:21 PM
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Why are you not impressed? *NM*
10/05/2010 10:16:29 PM
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Re: SPOILERS
10/05/2010 10:22:52 PM
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Re: SPOILERS
10/05/2010 10:28:06 PM
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This is a weak novel.
11/05/2010 03:50:01 PM
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This is one of the books you really should not judge until you've finished it *NM*
11/05/2010 04:15:23 PM
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