There is something endlessly appealing about the vurt world and its feathers and this prequel/sequel gives a lot of what we loved and more in a bizarre parallel world that's only set to get even weirder.

3.5 stars.I had no idea this book was part of the same universe as three other books; I wonder if reading the others, or at least the first one, would provide more depth to Nymphomation ?I weirdly enjoyed it, even if I didn't understand half of it; well, maybe not half, but a good chunk at least.It was a very bizarre novel and I'm not quite sure what to make of it.At first, the only reason why I this book arrived in my TBR was because the story takes place in Manchester. How shallow, I know.But

I have been thinking of this book, but not able to recall the title or author, for probably 10 years. Finally, I had the time to ask my friend who had introduced me to this book via her college literature class, and while she didn't instantly recall the details, she texted me only several hours later saying it popped in her head; "Nymphomation.. by Jeff Noon!" I did a little happy dance because I wanted to give it appropriate cred in Goodreads considering I've been (only tacitly) tyring to track...

This book was hard to track down... I had to buy it used on Amazon. I loved it though; definitely a great addition to the Vurt series, and a damned good prequel. If you've never read the Vurt books, I'd start with this one.

This book has some moments of sparkling, interesting, prose. Its premise interested me, but doesn't hold together for long. The characters are mostly thin and toward the end, the novel unraveled for me pretty badly. Noon writes with a distinctive voice and it's definitely worth checking his writing out. But it's inconsistent and the wheels fall off the longer it goes on.

There is no wit quite like Jeff Noon's; I would recommend any book by him in a heartbeat. This is a book about love, and sex, and dystopia, and dominoes, and the way humans process information, and the inevitable bridge between humanity and technology. Positively staggering.

Blurb: The air of Manchester is alive with blurbvurts, automated advertisements chanting their slogans. But the loudest of all is for Domino Bones, the new lottery game. Every Friday night the winning numbers are illuminated on the body of Lady Luck, the voluptuous figurehead of the game. For the winner, it is unimaginable riches, for the losers another week to wait for the bones to fall again. But there is only one real winner, The Company, which plays the city’s fragile expectations with callo...

Nymphomation is frenetic prequel to 'Vurt' and 'Pollen' (but chronologically occurring after 'Automated Alice'). As with Noon's other works, many interesting ideas are conveyed in the story; but this particular novel takes place before the birth of the Vurt (indeed the book provides information as to how the birth of the Vurt came about).[return][return]In Nymphomation, Noon extends himself further in terms of literary prose when compared to his earlier works of 'Vurt' and 'Pollen'. The jump bet...

I thought most of this novel was pretty poor, but the last section was simply abysmal. I can't think of a single thing that was done well; the characters were more like grinning cardboard cut-outs than real people; the "plot" was just a series of random events, many of which didn't make any sense and weren't explained (and I don't mean cliffhangers, I mean things left completely unexplained all the way through the book) and the descriptions were virtually non-existent (for example, Noon never ex...

In Nymphomation, Jeff Noon returns to the Manchester of Vurt and Pollen, but in the year 1999 - a time before the vurt and before Fecundity 10 created all the cross breeds that populate Noon's first two novels.The story revolves around a lottery (based on dominoes) that is being tested in Manchester before being rolled out to all of England. Daisy Love, our main character, is a mathematics student who becomes mixed up with a group of students who are trying to unravel the secrets of the lottery....

i loved this book so much i read it too fast and got a headache

stross on really good drugs sooooooo much fun and being a major fan of vurt gotta read it

Starts of multi coloured like Luc Besson's 5th element, slowly muddles itself into a disappointing Blade Runneresque rainy monochrome

The translation for this wasn't too good and I feel like a lot of the original was lost on me.

Even to my jaded reading ear, this just pops off the page with hyperkinetic sentence and story-structure. There's a fast pop frivolity to it as well, but that just seems to bring it closer to the pulp-lit innovations of the the late 60s than most of their modern imitators. How exciting that I can still get grabbed like this (as with other 2016 reads, it's a good year so far: Our Lady of the Nile, The Third Policeman, and Breaking and Entering) from page one. And even if the mathematical underpin...

I loved this book until the half way mark but then I got a bit lost in the abstract nature of the storyline. I liked the little nod to Vurt at the end but it would be lost on anyone who has not read Vurt. Jeff does write a very individual and inventive story with lots of Manchester love.

See, here's the problem I have with Jeff Noon. Vurt and Falling Out of Cars are two of the best science fiction novels I've ever read. They changed my view of the contemporary novel and provided me ample fuel for critical study at university.But Nymphomation somehow doesn't match up. The bursts of purple prose, whilst entertaining in places, lack the raw energy of his two masterpieces. There's much of Vurt's style and panache here, but it feels overdone, half-baked and inconsistent. I feel the r...

Very odd, but entertaining.

This is an exceptionally hard book to review. Not because it's bad – it isn't, it's excellent – but because it's almost impossible to define what it's about.Gambling? Definitely. It nicely sums up our seeming obsession with the National Lottery and Euromillions, the faith of the poor and the desperate that a game of chance will turn their lives around.But it's about much more than that. Love, friendship, mystery, murder, maths and the idea that information creates more information – it reproduce...

I think Vurt was maybe one of the best contemporary sci do books I have read...more so with regard it's aftermath as I read it I found it a compelling book but once finished I truly appreciated it more...it was a book that would return to me....maybe the same thing will happen with this book..although I don't think so.Initially I enjoyed this book an idea of a future national lottery based on changing Dominos plus the introduction of a world like ours and yet different in subtle ways made this a...