Lights Out in Wonderland, (Paperback)

from jenniferrsimpson

I was interested to see other people struggled with this. I really enjoyed other books by DBC Pierre, and found parts of this one really perceptive and engaging. The comments on society and in particular capitalism were interesting. However it was hard to follow what was going on as there are sev...

from TimForrest65

On balance, a good book and a good read. I think the memory of it will stay and it's a book I'm happy to have read. my only downside (but still recommend to read) would be stylistic issues - the ending fizzled to an near incomprehensible abstract exchange right after a huge climax, the footnotes ...

from Jannes

Partly a personal manifesto of misanthropic musings and anti-capitalistic tirades, part thriller(-ish) set in the "culinary overworld." Works somewhat better than it ought to, but never really takes of or invokes any real sense of the strange and surreal, although it tries. The protagonists actio...