The End of Mr. Y by Scarlett Thomas
I finished this yesterday and I can't recommend it highly enough. The story is about a PhD student at Kent Uni who discovers the way to some sort of universal consciousness called the Troposphere and from there she can slip into other's minds and memories.

That's it put simply, but the book deals with Victorian scientists, quantum physics, Derrida, Baudrillard, universities, seedy sex and living in Canterbury.

I have to admit I had put off reading this book because I've met the author - in fact one of the classes the heroine mentions in the book is based upon a real class of which I was part...However, having now read it - compulsively in a couple of days I might add - I think it's an amazing book.

Read it!
Here's the first chapter -
www.theendofmry.co.uk/MrY_Chapt1.pdf
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Thu 18 Sep 2008, 11:45, Reply)