Reviews for Vurt

The average rating for Vurt based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-01-11 00:00:00 Salvatore Abbate Birds of a feather flock together: A blue feather had landed on the stomach of the Thing-from-Outer-Space. One of his tentacles reached out for it His spiky fingers took a hold, and a hole opened up in his flesh, a greasy orifice. He turned the feather in his feelers and then stroked it in, direct, to the hole. He started to change. I wasn't sure which feather he'd loaded, but from the way he was moving his feelers I guess he was swimming with the Thermo Fish. So to be knocked down with a feather just read Vurt. If Alice's Adventures in Wonderland were written in the genre of dystopia and in the cyberpunk style it would've become Vurt. The novel is very extravagant and exotic but some serious holes in the plot prevent it from turning into a masterpiece.

Review # 2 was written on 2013-06-01 00:00:00 Brandon Laird Dear Gods. This isn't a book. It's an A1, tip-top, clubbing, jam fair. It's sandwich of fun, on ecstasy bread, wrapped up in a big bag like disco fudge... Seriously. It's a technicolour concept album, existing somewhere between Alice in Wonderland, Akira and Trainspotting. It's sex and drugs and incest and feathers and dog-fucking; it's a fractal reality that I really, really wish I'd written. I guess you have to have been there. If you have the right past - and if you've come past it far enough - you can identify with everything this book reveals. We've all known a Beetle, we've all known a Game Cat. We've been on the ride and we know how it eventually rings hollow, and we know how it feels when it ends. If you've had the experiences, you can follow every loop as it goes round. And as it stops. From fractal bullets to the icecream van in the middle of the post-Ramadan party, this is evocative, powerfully visual and leaves you pressed against the back of your chair, hanging on for dear life. Particularly on audiobook, and with a masterful narrator, it's not something to be missed.