Jeff Noon

[Instrumentality_Lord]

Anyone a fan of the original and surreal writer Jeff Noon?
VURT is one my favourite novels Here is wiki link Vurt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ... just to stop me badly describing it and ruining the story if you haven't read it.
His last book FALLING OUT OF CARS was another hypnotic wonderland of images and psychosis. Noon is to our generation what JG Ballard was to the previous. Everyone should take regular doses to stimulate their reptile brain and insure strange dreams!

[Fried Egg]

Yeah, I've read quite a bit of Noon. "Vurt", it's sequel "Pollen". "Automated Alice" a kind of modern, twisted take on "Alice in Wonderland". I've also read a collection of his short stories...

[Dave]

I've read Vurt, Pollen and Automated Alice too, but not Falling out of Cars.

I started a thread before but no one replied:
Noon, Jeff: Vurt, Pollen, Automated Alice.

[Tillane]

Huge fan of Noon, and particularly of Pollen (which I wrote an paper on at university), Nymphomation and Needle In The Groove. No one else uses language the way he does - more's the pity.

[booksforlunch]

I´ve read Pollen a few years back, but never Vurt ( couldn´t get it in the library ) and I own Automated Alice.
I was very impressed by Pollen, which I had picked up on a whim, not knowing what to expect. I read some passages a few times over and I loved - I know that sounds funny when I say that about a book - the "visuals" of his characters - Boudica, the tattooed taxi driver or her collegue Coyote, the dalmatian dog - human. The novel also gave me a scene that made it to my list of Most Disturbing Images Ever... homicide by sneezing.
Automate Alice was ... interesting. But I would propably have appreciated it more, if i hadn´t read it after Pollen.

His works stand on my to - buy - list, but since said list is imaginary, I always forget him when I plan purchases. I should really write it down sometimes.

[Instrumentality_Lord]

Dave, obviously the time was wrong for your post... and now we have a gathering of Noon fans! I actually wondered if I was going to be alone here. Whenever I discuss him with people I come across in bookshops I am usually met with a blank stare. He isn't that well known, which is a damn shame.

I was lucky enough to live close enough to Manchester to attend the launch parties of Automated Alice and Nymphomation. They took place in WATERSTONES in Deansgate, where Jeff used to work. The Automated Alice one was really wild as the Waterstone's staff actually hired Alice in Wonderland costumes and dressed up as characters. The manager of store making a very fetching Alice. Jeff was a very approachable guy, and would stick around for ages after the signing bits were over to chat and socialise. It was great hearing him read aloud from his books ... he did two long performances at each of the launch parties. The Nymphomation one was amazing as he took us almost all the way through the book ... narrating bridging pieces to explain the story as he then skipped ahead and gave us another section.

[Dave]

Originally Posted by Instrumentality_Lord

Dave, obviously the time was wrong for your post... and now we have a gathering of Noon fans! I actually wondered if I was going to be alone here.

Exactly! I'm glad I'm not the only weird person here.

[Instrumentality_Lord]

Dave
"Exactly! I'm glad I'm not the only weird person here. "

... lol ... I suspect that "normal people" (if such beasts even exist!) are in the minority here!

[Tillane]

Normal people? On the Chrons?

The very thought...