The Nix (Hardcover)

from jayne_charles

There is so much to praise about this big, exuberant, generous book. Accessible and entertaining from the very start, it allows itself time to examine its themes in glorious detail - the bits devoted to "Elfscape" could probably have filled a short novel by themselves and they were brilliant. The...

from Kristelh

This book is about a mother/son relationship. It is also about politics from the sixties to the current time. The main character is Samuel, a school teacher by day and gamer by night. The book does capture the spirit and age of the sixties as well as the current time. First we have Samuel as the ...

from porch_reader

I saw Nathan Hill read from The Nix at the Iowa City Book Festival. He had the audience rolling with laughter with his description of Pwnage, a friend of Samuel Andresen-Anderson who spends most of his time playing World of Elfscape. But this is only a small part of the plot of The Nix, a novel t...

from lisapeet

As I feared, NYPL sucked my e-copy of this back into the ether today when I had 30 pages (out of 620!) left. And the thought drove me SO nuts that I ran all over the office until 15 minutes before I left for the weekend I found a copy I could borrow. I ended up liking it a lot, too. It was long a...

from santhony

This is just a very well written and highly entertaining work. The story ostensibly follows Samuel, an aspiring writer and college professor and the mother that abandoned him as a young child, through three timelines. First was the late 60s, when his mother was attending college in Chicago during...