Customer Reviews
This book changed me - By: Lee Doyle, 20 Oct 2008 
I read this book many years ago & it still sticks with me to this day. I really do mean it when I say that this book changed me... I am not sure if it changed me for better or worse, but it sure did something.
You will feel asif you arein a dream & by the time you flip the last page you will have gone through a mind ****.
This is what Jeff Noon intended to do & he sure did his job. You travel through dark streets, dream worlds, horror flicks, & find a few friends who are as real as any book writer could create. You will also find yourself strangely drawn to hating some of these people & at the same time wanting to know more about them.
This is Alicein wonderland with no rules. If you want a glimer of what this is like look at it like this:
Alice is screwing her brother, her best friend is making love to a dog who is human like. And while all this is going on the Cat is writing a guide on the best drugs & which ones to take & which not to take.... But Alice being a bad girl takes a bad one & gets screwed up.
This book is truly sick & twisted! You will never find a book like this again... Before reading this book write a diary... Cos you will want to look back at how you was before opening up the pages to this whole new world.
Vurtual feathers - By: Mikko Saari, 12 Aug 2007 
Vurt is an odd beast. I found it hard to start with, but soon the world had sucked me in. In futuristic Manchester those looking for hallucinogenic experiences suck on feathers to enter virtual worlds, Vurts. Stash Riders, a bunch of miscellaneous losers, hunt for interesting feathers & try to find Desdemona, who got stuckin a bad Vurt.
Noon has cooked up a futuristic & surrealistic world. The language is colourful & takes some getting used to. The world isn't explained thoroughly; some readers will certainly find Vurt too strange a feather to swallow. However, if you can accept that the world doesn't always make sense, the story moves on with a good pace & the plot is interesting.
Vurt isn't the easiest & most accessible book, but it's worth the effort. If you like it, there's more: Noon has written several books setin the same vurtual world.
So much potential, but it didn't quite do it for me - By: Vrinda Barker, 08 Jun 2007 
The first half of this book absolutely blew me away, I thought it was one of the most incredible things I'd ever read, I got through itin a couple hours & was hungry for more. Then I came to Part 2, & suddenly I felt like I'd spoken too soon.
I really would love if someone could explain to me what on earth the section where they go into the world of the dogs is actually about, how it relates to anything elsein the story, why it's there, or why it's interesting - & I don't say that sarcastically, I really do want to know, because I was LOVING this book up until that section.
I also started going off it when it became all about his incestuous relationship with his sister, not because I'm a prude but because the subject of incest felt like it was there simply for shock value & nothing more & I just thought it seemed irrelevant.
Then it built back up again & was breaktaking for me, again, & I was hopeful that, over all, I'd bein love with this book - but then it just ended. Again, can someone please explain to me what on earth happened at the end? Did the book actually conclude? Because I thought the ending was a total cop-out, it felt like he'd created such an ambitious fantasy world, he didn't know what to do with it, & I just don't like when books go with the 'safe' denouement of 'well, it's all over now, so-and-so is doing this now, & the last time i saw person x he was busy with this, & I'm here doing this thing blah blah the end'. The summary was just so cheesy & empty & dissatisfying, I felt SO disappointed, particularly because, as I say, I really did expect to be blown away by this novel.
Possibly life changing? - By: W. King, 04 Jan 2006 I am a student, & we were mucking aboutin the libary at lunch one wet break - & i saw this bookin the shelf & picked it out due to the versions random colour scheme. I read the blurb & thought it sounded ok. I started reading...
When i finished it a few weeks later (i'm a slow reader...) i new it was the best book i had ever read. It's perfect mix of violence, sex, futuristic drugs, & an incredibly emotional & heart-pounding, creative & immaginative story just blew me away.
I talked my friends into reading it, who read all the time & finished it within a day or two, & they decided it was their favoutite book too. Now, two years later, the book has become a bit of a legend, almost a bible, too all that have read it.
This book appeals to both people looking for a cool story, & those looking for a masterpiece. If you read it, you will agree i can assure.
Jeff Noon is the Jeff Beck of the writing world!
Vurtual Reality - By: dogbarkssome, 16 Dec 2005 Jeff Noon’s debut novel is a startling mix of science fiction & fantasy, essentially taking the tropes of cyberpunk SF & transforming them into something far stranger. Central of these is vurt itself – where Noon turns the standard hi-tech virtual reality of cyberpunk fiction into a ‘vurt’-ual reality (geddit?) of shared dreaming accessed by the oral intake of various coloured feathers – but Noon’s near-future Manchester is just as bizarre, peopled by robots, shadows, & man/dog hybrids. The storyline follows the adventures of narrator Scribble, as he desperately tries to win back his sister/lover from the vurt, &in the process learns it’s ultimate secret. A fantastic debut, full of lyrical prose, dreamlike imagery & a heart-rending emotional core, Vurt is like Neuromancer as written by Lewis Carroll. Essential for SF fans looking for something out of the ordinary.
