The End of Mr. Y
It's about a cursed book that holds the key to letting you enter other peoples minds and wander about seeing what they see, feeling what they feel, bit wierd and I haven't finished it yet so I'm with holding judgemnet.

For anyone who likes cricket I throughly recommend "Penguins Stopped Play" by Harry Thompson, BBC comedy producer of The News Quiz and The Mary Whitehouse Experience, Harry Enfield and Chums and Monkey Dust, and co-produced Never Mind The Buzzcocks.

He also wrote the rather excellent account of Darwins trip on the Beagle "This heart of Darkness".
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Wed 20 Jan 2010, 15:04, 2 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

I've read the End of Mr Y
there's some interesting ideas on philosophy and how reality could be kind of like it's written in several levels of programming language
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 20 Jan 2010, 15:05, Reply)

Yeah, I was a bit bored for the first third

now I'm into the last half it all seems a bit silly...

Also I don't like Ariel very much, and when I don't empathise with a character it's very hard to care what happens to them.
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Wed 20 Jan 2010, 15:08, Reply)

yeah I know what you mean
I liked the concept quite a lot, and there were some good ideas, but the characters were a bit flat.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 20 Jan 2010, 15:12, Reply)

I've been considering this.

( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Wed 20 Jan 2010, 15:27, Reply)

It's on my Amazon wishlist

( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Wed 20 Jan 2010, 15:39, Reply)

it's worth a read for some interesting concepts
and it's a nice looking book with its red cover and black edges to the pages
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 20 Jan 2010, 15:50, Reply)