Look what I bought at the bookstore today

[AlanJohn]

So I went to my local book store to buy myself some of Arthur C. Clarke's novels, and I came accros to this:

Spoiler

 

[Foxi4]

It's Numbers by Victor Pelevin, a part of The Dialectics of the Transition Period (from Nowhere to No Place).

 

[Click This]

I...
What?

I wouldn't dare to look inside.

 

[Foxi4]

I...
What?

I wouldn't dare to look inside.

It has nothing to do with Pokemon, just so you know. ;P

 

[Click This]

I...
What?

I wouldn't dare to look inside.

It has nothing to do with Pokemon, just so you know. ;P

So... Never judge a book by its cover?

 

[Foxi4]

I...
What?

I wouldn't dare to look inside.

It has nothing to do with Pokemon, just so you know. ;P

So... Never judge a book by its cover?

Pretty much.

The main character -- a boutique banker who's beyond obsessed with the number 34 -- interested me at first because he was so compulsive. I enjoyed some of the humor. But. Pelevin is Pelevin, so things suddenly got too conceptualist and wacky and crowded and ridiculous for me. Among other things, he tosses in his twist on Eastern philosophy (yawn), a phallic object/lingam with a pen gun inside (holy complicated multiple metaphors, Dr. Freud!), Madonna (again?), a priest disguise (call in the masks), an antipode governed by 43 (snort), a portrait of Putin (*sigh*), and Pokemon (ой!). It's just too much. ~A random review by someone named Lisa​

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[AlanJohn]

I...
What?

I wouldn't dare to look inside.

It has nothing to do with Pokemon, just so you know. ;P

So... Never judge a book by its cover?

Pretty much.

The main character -- a boutique banker who's beyond obsessed with the number 34 -- interested me at first because he was so compulsive. I enjoyed some of the humor. But. Pelevin is Pelevin, so things suddenly got too conceptualist and wacky and crowded and ridiculous for me. Among other things, he tosses in his twist on Eastern philosophy (yawn), a phallic object/lingam with a pen gun inside (holy complicated multiple metaphors, Dr. Freud!), Madonna (again?), a priest disguise (call in the masks), an antipode governed by 43 (snort), a portrait of Putin (*sigh*), and Pokemon (ой!). It's just too much. ~A random review by someone named Lisa​

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Great book BTW, Its in my top 23 list, and it stands next to Christopher Paolini and Michio Kaku.

 

[Deleted-236924]

That's one very weird book you got there.

 

[Sylar1]

Wait, this isn't a pokemon porn book?

whelp

 

[Deleted member 282441]

LOLWUT

 

[Maverick Lunar X]

 

[Brian117]