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I greatly enjoyed this mindfuck of a novel, full of magic, humor, and wonderful character sketches. Mystical and cynical, surrealistic, I'm not sure what it means, but I loved the journey. Fans of Steven Erickson should check this out.
GODS WITHOUT MEN reminds me of Mitchell's Cloud Atlas, but it is more structured than that loosely book. Hippie cults, the trickster God Coyote, yuppies, freak folk stars and Spanish missionaries all converge on a mysterious rock formation in the middle of the Moja ...more
GODS WITHOUT MEN reminds me of Mitchell's Cloud Atlas, but it is more structured than that loosely book. Hippie cults, the trickster God Coyote, yuppies, freak folk stars and Spanish missionaries all converge on a mysterious rock formation in the middle of the Moja ...more
Kunzru's characters struggle to understand their place in the universe, even as they grasp blindly for higher meaning. Interesting connections between the years, and an interesting premise overall, although the ending seemed abrupt.
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