A Void

I liked Life - a User's manual. Got rather bored with A Void - first 50 pages were brilliant and it's a superb conceit and gorgeously put into English.. but the story is picaresque to the point of tedium.

Great

Loved this book. Very cool mystery. Also extremely cool challenge to write and read it.

Random thoughts on first coming into contact with this book:1. Which imp is disposing of a particular mark throughout this folio?2. What can such disposal do to this unassuming appraisal?3. Which man, following an author in disposing of Anton Vowl, slipping a hint as to whodunnit in virtually all this book's paragraphs, would put his sign to such a work of translation? Gilb Adair? A triumph.Which should work by way of illustration, amplifying your grasp of this paradox of a voluminous pratting about - a book, a fantasy of aristocracy and policing, which our author (originally GP, not GA) took a contract to construct without using a particular - shall I say - mark? 5 stars, nay, an infinity of stars for such a victory against customary linguistics!

For thos allrgic to th vowl, " ", this is a grat rad!! Th chaptr paraphrasing Dgar Alln Po's "Th Ravn", is worth th pric of th ntir book, by itslf.Don't worry, just taking away that non-consonant is NOT how it works... This book is a joy for individuals that thrill to word-play.