Chaos Walking: The Knife of Never Letting Go (Audiobook)

from tim_halpin

With an opening sentence of 'the first thing you find out when yer dog learns to talk is that dogs don't got nothing much to say', you can't really go wrong. And The Knife of Never Letting Go doesn't go far wrong. It's one of the best books I've read in a long time. Apparently I'm a bit late on t...

from snat

In a world where we're bombarded with technology, our senses are often overwhelmed by the amount of noise in the world and it's becoming increasingly difficult to find true quiet anymore (especially since most of us just plug into our computer or iPod as soon as it is quiet). A constant stream of...

from SamuelW

With its edgy, striking cover art and scrawled mess of blood-red writing, Patrick Ness' The Knife of Never Letting Go is a book that promises its reader something different - something beyond the level of ordinary fiction. On that promise, it delivers. Creative, original and unconventionally bril...

from Esquiress

After an initial false start trying to read The Knife of Never Letting Go, I found my groove in the language of the book, finding it less distracting than the first time I tried to read it. I was told that if it hadn't gripped me by about 60 pages in, then it was time to put the book down. Well, ...

from delphica

(#34 in the 2009 Book Challenge) This is so terrific and gripping and intense. It got like a million prizes when it was released last year in the U.K. although I haven't seen much about it over here. Soft science fiction, Todd is a thirteen year old boy growing up in a colony on another planet wh...