Falling Out of Cars
Jeff Noon
Marlene Moore's new job gives her the chance to travel around England, a land that turns stranger and more dreamlike the further she travels. Slowly, Marlene is falling prey to a sickness, a disease that seems to change the world around her. And the job itself is far weirder than she ever imagined.
Posted by hughes-a (1 year ago ) For me a welcome departure for Jeff Noon from the modernist Manchester of earlier books. Still in a 'one step forwards and one step to the left' world as typical of all Noon's writing, this wonderful, dark, unexplained road trip is Noon's best work yet. His imagination as rich as ever (you honestly won't have read anything like it from the UK) his adventures as surreal and beautiful. I agree with other reviews that this is 'weird' but not sure how this is a negative thing. Falling Out of Cars represents, for me, our most ingenious modernist writer at the peak of his creativity and individuality and would recommend it to anyone looking for something different, thought-provoking and beautiful. 9/10. And booksellers - it is NOT Sci-Fi.
Posted by mike (1 year ago ) you can normally sum up Noons books in one world. Weird.
This book however requires two. Really weird
So really weird infact that it is actually on the verge of becoming rubbish - it just doesn't have the depth of his other (slightly less strange) stuff, such as Vurt or Pollen. This was definitely a dissapointment - should have re-read Vurt instead.
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