false 2081374 <![CDATA[The Raw Shark Texts]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255955024m/2081374.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255955024s/2081374.jpg A March 2007 Significant 7 Editors' Pick: Not since Fight Club have a I read a book that sizzled with such fierce originality and searing vision as Steven Hall's electrifying debut novel, The Raw Shark Texts. It's a twisting, trippy thriller that tears through the landscape of language, revealing the lurking terrors uncovered in every letter of the written word. Steven Hall swims in the same surreal waters as pop-culture pioneers David Lynch and Michel Gondry, and The Raw Shark Texts deserves to be shelved somewhere between Trainspotting and Life of Pi. It pulls you under like a riptide, leaving you exhausted, exhilarated, and gasping for air.

But don't just take our word for it. We asked Audrey Niffenegger, one of the most creative contemporary writers working today, to share with readers her take on Steven Hall's debut novel, The Raw Shark Texts. Check out her exclusive Amazon guest review below. --Brad Thomas Parsons


Guest Reviewer: Audrey Niffenegger

Audrey Niffenegger is a professor in the Interdisciplinary Books Arts MFA Program at the Columbia College Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts. A visual artist, she shows her artwork at Printworks Gallery in Chicago. The Time Traveler's Wife, her first novel, was an international bestseller and was one of Amazon.com's Best Books of 2003. It won several awards and is being made into a major motion picture. Her visual novels, The Three Incestuous Sisters and The Adventuress, were recently published by Harry N. Abrams. Miss Niffenegger is currently hard at work on her second novel, Her Fearful Symmetry, a ghost story set in London's Highgate Cemetery.

Eric Sanderson has lost his memory, his girl, his life as he once knew it. His pre-amnesiac self is sending him letters, a sort of correspondence course on how to be Eric Sanderson. Unfortunately, this previous self didn't really have it all together either. This is too bad, because the source of all the trouble is a conceptual shark, a Ludovician shark, no less. Soon Eric is on the run, trying to piece it all together and find true love before his mind gets wiped by the shark for the twelfth and probably final time.

Steven Hall is an inventive, funny and extremely smart writer. I am a letterpress printer and a typophile, and I was drawn to his book because of the typography: The Raw Shark Texts is riddled with typographic games, codes, a flip book, and a boatload of very elegant plot devices that hinge on collisions between the Information Age and the imagination. At one point Eric and Scout, his guide/love interest, are speeding away from the conceptual shark on a motorbike. Scout eludes the shark by exploding a letter bomb, a bomb made out of old metal type; the type diverts the shark into a stream of random letterforms. At this I practically fell off the couch with admiration.

There's plenty to groove on in The Raw Sharks Texts even if you're not a type maven. There's echoes of Cyberpunk, Borges, Auster; there is adventure on the high seas, lost love, an exploration of what it means to be human in the age of intelligent machines. The Raw Sharks Texts is huge fun, and I gleefully recommend it. --Audrey Niffenegger

]]> 144800 19 938197 book 10 4 2007 The Raw Shark Texts total:2117|5:577|4:769|3:510|2:177|1:83| 2117 7929 3258 601 83727 3.75 2122 603 22369370 684295 144800 1841959111 9781841959115 493 <![CDATA[The Raw Shark Texts]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172166063m/144800.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172166063s/144800.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/144800.The_Raw_Shark_Texts 3.73 1735 The Raw Shark Texts is ultimately a novel about the magnitude of love and the devastating effect of losing that love.]]> 2007 5 5 false Wed May 07 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri May 16 09:07:18 -0700 2008 Fri May 16 09:53:56 -0700 2008
This whole genre of stuffy British dudes who find themselves unwillingly going on adventures and discovering that there's more to them than just being pasty and flustered.

And, yeah, it's a genre. There's TONS of books with that same damn plot. Thing is,...more...]]> 3015114 115977 144800 1841959111 9781841959115 493 <![CDATA[The Raw Shark Texts]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172166063m/144800.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172166063s/144800.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/144800.The_Raw_Shark_Texts 3.75 2117 The Raw Shark Texts is ultimately a novel about the magnitude of love and the devastating effect of losing that love.]]> 2007 1 3 false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 12 23:07:48 -0700 2007 Thu Dec 17 00:28:02 -0800 2009 The Celestine Prophecy -which I did many, many moons ago- only without the ...more...]]> 4812922 155411 144800 1841959111 9781841959115 493 <![CDATA[The Raw Shark Texts]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172166063m/144800.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172166063s/144800.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/144800.The_Raw_Shark_Texts 3.75 2117 The Raw Shark Texts is ultimately a novel about the magnitude of love and the devastating effect of losing that love.]]> 2007 5 3 false Mon Aug 20 10:12:12 -0700 2007 Thu Oct 04 19:31:09 -0700 2007 more...]]> 34168375 18213 144800 1841959111 9781841959115 493 <![CDATA[The Raw Shark Texts]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172166063m/144800.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172166063s/144800.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/144800.The_Raw_Shark_Texts 3.75 2117 The Raw Shark Texts is ultimately a novel about the magnitude of love and the devastating effect of losing that love.]]> 2007 4 3 false Mon Sep 29 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 29 19:33:21 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 29 20:47:45 -0700 2008 Remainder by Tom McCarthy: debut novels from the UK by men taking on conceptual literary frameworks. Their work isn't influenced by film so much as engaged by the medium itself. It's certainly not for everyone. In fact, I hated Remainder for the first few months after reading. B...more...]]> 26402737 703606 144800 1841959111 9781841959115 493 <![CDATA[The Raw Shark Texts]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172166063m/144800.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172166063s/144800.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/144800.The_Raw_Shark_Texts 3.75 2117 The Raw Shark Texts is ultimately a novel about the magnitude of love and the devastating effect of losing that love.]]> 2007 5 2 true Sun Jul 13 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Jul 05 20:08:51 -0700 2008 Sun Jul 13 10:18:47 -0700 2008 more...]]> 24432627 1022982 1384246 0002006979 9780002006972 5 <![CDATA[The Raw Shark Texts]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1384246.The_Raw_Shark_Texts 4.00 10
But there may be more to the story, or it may be a different story altogether. As Eric begins to examine letters and papers left in the house by "the first Eric Sanderson," a staggeringly different explanation for what is happening to Eric emerges, and he and the reader embark on a quest to recover the truth and escape the remorseless predatory forces that threatens to devour him.

The Raw Shark Texts is a kaleidoscopic novel about the magnitude of love and the devastating effect of losing that love. It will dazzle you, it will move you, and will leave an indelible imprint like nothing you have read in a long time.]]> 2007 4 3 false Fri Jun 13 13:56:45 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 14 13:25:51 -0700 2009 The Raw Shark Texts is an incendiary word bomb of conceptual fish, a mad world hungry pseudo immortal, movie geekdom, Greek tragedy and cats with mundane names.

To say there is something lacking in Steven Hall's first novel seems unfair and trite, but I can't s...more...]]> 23885223 1089141 144800 1841959111 9781841959115 493 <![CDATA[The Raw Shark Texts]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172166063m/144800.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172166063s/144800.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/144800.The_Raw_Shark_Texts 3.75 2117 The Raw Shark Texts is ultimately a novel about the magnitude of love and the devastating effect of losing that love.]]> 2007 2 3 true Sun Jun 29 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Jun 06 15:05:29 -0700 2008 Sun Jun 29 19:55:29 -0700 2008
Still reading...more...]]> 22354427 933518 144800 1841959111 9781841959115 493 <![CDATA[The Raw Shark Texts]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172166063m/144800.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172166063s/144800.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/144800.The_Raw_Shark_Texts 3.75 2117 The Raw Shark Texts is ultimately a novel about the magnitude of love and the devastating effect of losing that love.]]> 2007 5 3 false Sun Jun 22 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri May 16 03:58:01 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 19 07:17:59 -0700 2009 I found a copy of the UK version of this book in a used book store the other day and it prompted me to re-read it.
This book is so brilliant it's unbelievable. Reading it a second time brought out, in my mind anyway, what is really going on with this book. I'm truly amazed...more...]]> 19223671 573337 2081374 1847671748 9781847671745 59 <![CDATA[The Raw Shark Texts]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255955024m/2081374.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255955024s/2081374.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2081374.The_Raw_Shark_Texts 3.71 193 A March 2007 Significant 7 Editors' Pick: Not since Fight Club have a I read a book that sizzled with such fierce originality and searing vision as Steven Hall's electrifying debut novel, The Raw Shark Texts. It's a twisting, trippy thriller that tears through the landscape of language, revealing the lurking terrors uncovered in every letter of the written word. Steven Hall swims in the same surreal waters as pop-culture pioneers David Lynch and Michel Gondry, and The Raw Shark Texts deserves to be shelved somewhere between Trainspotting and Life of Pi. It pulls you under like a riptide, leaving you exhausted, exhilarated, and gasping for air.

But don't just take our word for it. We asked Audrey Niffenegger, one of the most creative contemporary writers working today, to share with readers her take on Steven Hall's debut novel, The Raw Shark Texts. Check out her exclusive Amazon guest review below. --Brad Thomas Parsons


Guest Reviewer: Audrey Niffenegger

Audrey Niffenegger is a professor in the Interdisciplinary Books Arts MFA Program at the Columbia College Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts. A visual artist, she shows her artwork at Printworks Gallery in Chicago. The Time Traveler's Wife, her first novel, was an international bestseller and was one of Amazon.com's Best Books of 2003. It won several awards and is being made into a major motion picture. Her visual novels, The Three Incestuous Sisters and The Adventuress, were recently published by Harry N. Abrams. Miss Niffenegger is currently hard at work on her second novel, Her Fearful Symmetry, a ghost story set in London's Highgate Cemetery.

Eric Sanderson has lost his memory, his girl, his life as he once knew it. His pre-amnesiac self is sending him letters, a sort of correspondence course on how to be Eric Sanderson. Unfortunately, this previous self didn't really have it all together either. This is too bad, because the source of all the trouble is a conceptual shark, a Ludovician shark, no less. Soon Eric is on the run, trying to piece it all together and find true love before his mind gets wiped by the shark for the twelfth and probably final time.

Steven Hall is an inventive, funny and extremely smart writer. I am a letterpress printer and a typophile, and I was drawn to his book because of the typography: The Raw Shark Texts is riddled with typographic games, codes, a flip book, and a boatload of very elegant plot devices that hinge on collisions between the Information Age and the imagination. At one point Eric and Scout, his guide/love interest, are speeding away from the conceptual shark on a motorbike. Scout eludes the shark by exploding a letter bomb, a bomb made out of old metal type; the type diverts the shark into a stream of random letterforms. At this I practically fell off the couch with admiration.

There's plenty to groove on in The Raw Sharks Texts even if you're not a type maven. There's echoes of Cyberpunk, Borges, Auster; there is adventure on the high seas, lost love, an exploration of what it means to be human in the age of intelligent machines. The Raw Sharks Texts is huge fun, and I gleefully recommend it. --Audrey Niffenegger

]]> 2007 5 1 true Fri Jun 27 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 01 13:50:00 -0700 2008 Sun Jun 29 04:13:57 -0700 2008 more...]]> 18747172 1027879 2081374 1847671748 9781847671745 59 <![CDATA[The Raw Shark Texts]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255955024m/2081374.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255955024s/2081374.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2081374.The_Raw_Shark_Texts 3.75 2117 A March 2007 Significant 7 Editors' Pick: Not since Fight Club have a I read a book that sizzled with such fierce originality and searing vision as Steven Hall's electrifying debut novel, The Raw Shark Texts. It's a twisting, trippy thriller that tears through the landscape of language, revealing the lurking terrors uncovered in every letter of the written word. Steven Hall swims in the same surreal waters as pop-culture pioneers David Lynch and Michel Gondry, and The Raw Shark Texts deserves to be shelved somewhere between Trainspotting and Life of Pi. It pulls you under like a riptide, leaving you exhausted, exhilarated, and gasping for air.

But don't just take our word for it. We asked Audrey Niffenegger, one of the most creative contemporary writers working today, to share with readers her take on Steven Hall's debut novel, The Raw Shark Texts. Check out her exclusive Amazon guest review below. --Brad Thomas Parsons


Guest Reviewer: Audrey Niffenegger

Audrey Niffenegger is a professor in the Interdisciplinary Books Arts MFA Program at the Columbia College Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts. A visual artist, she shows her artwork at Printworks Gallery in Chicago. The Time Traveler's Wife, her first novel, was an international bestseller and was one of Amazon.com's Best Books of 2003. It won several awards and is being made into a major motion picture. Her visual novels, The Three Incestuous Sisters and The Adventuress, were recently published by Harry N. Abrams. Miss Niffenegger is currently hard at work on her second novel, Her Fearful Symmetry, a ghost story set in London's Highgate Cemetery.

Eric Sanderson has lost his memory, his girl, his life as he once knew it. His pre-amnesiac self is sending him letters, a sort of correspondence course on how to be Eric Sanderson. Unfortunately, this previous self didn't really have it all together either. This is too bad, because the source of all the trouble is a conceptual shark, a Ludovician shark, no less. Soon Eric is on the run, trying to piece it all together and find true love before his mind gets wiped by the shark for the twelfth and probably final time.

Steven Hall is an inventive, funny and extremely smart writer. I am a letterpress printer and a typophile, and I was drawn to his book because of the typography: The Raw Shark Texts is riddled with typographic games, codes, a flip book, and a boatload of very elegant plot devices that hinge on collisions between the Information Age and the imagination. At one point Eric and Scout, his guide/love interest, are speeding away from the conceptual shark on a motorbike. Scout eludes the shark by exploding a letter bomb, a bomb made out of old metal type; the type diverts the shark into a stream of random letterforms. At this I practically fell off the couch with admiration.

There's plenty to groove on in The Raw Sharks Texts even if you're not a type maven. There's echoes of Cyberpunk, Borges, Auster; there is adventure on the high seas, lost love, an exploration of what it means to be human in the age of intelligent machines. The Raw Sharks Texts is huge fun, and I gleefully recommend it. --Audrey Niffenegger

]]> 2007 5 2 false Sat Apr 05 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Mar 27 07:08:46 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 23 12:33:14 -0700 2008
I picked up The Raw Shark Texts this past weekend - not sure if I wanted to tackle something this long since I'm still trying to catch up to a good "38 in '08" pace - and I swear it was like disappearing off the face of the earth for two days. I can't remember the l...more...]]> 2815774 176612 144800 1841959111 9781841959115 493 <![CDATA[The Raw Shark Texts]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172166063m/144800.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172166063s/144800.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/144800.The_Raw_Shark_Texts 3.75 2117 The Raw Shark Texts is ultimately a novel about the magnitude of love and the devastating effect of losing that love.]]> 2007 2 2 false Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Jul 07 19:42:07 -0700 2007 Wed Jul 11 21:19:35 -0700 2007 more...]]> 34524812 1233169 144800 1841959111 9781841959115 493 <![CDATA[The Raw Shark Texts]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172166063m/144800.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172166063s/144800.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/144800.The_Raw_Shark_Texts 3.75 2117 The Raw Shark Texts is ultimately a novel about the magnitude of love and the devastating effect of losing that love.]]> 2007 3 1 true Fri Oct 03 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Oct 04 14:19:35 -0700 2008 Sat Oct 04 14:33:20 -0700 2008 1 more...]]> 23427254 192703 144800 1841959111 9781841959115 493 <![CDATA[The Raw Shark Texts]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172166063m/144800.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172166063s/144800.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/144800.The_Raw_Shark_Texts 3.75 2117 The Raw Shark Texts is ultimately a novel about the magnitude of love and the devastating effect of losing that love.]]> 2007 1 2 false Sun Jun 01 01:43:45 -0700 2008 Fri Mar 13 15:19:36 -0700 2009
Steven Hall is inspired. Writes a brilliant one hundred pages of an unfinished novel. The first hundred pages of 'The Raw Shark Texts' are truly a great read, hinting at something avant-garde, something page-turning in...more...]]> 20786626 349560 2081374 1847671748 9781847671745 59 <![CDATA[The Raw Shark Texts]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255955024m/2081374.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255955024s/2081374.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2081374.The_Raw_Shark_Texts 3.75 2117 A March 2007 Significant 7 Editors' Pick: Not since Fight Club have a I read a book that sizzled with such fierce originality and searing vision as Steven Hall's electrifying debut novel, The Raw Shark Texts. It's a twisting, trippy thriller that tears through the landscape of language, revealing the lurking terrors uncovered in every letter of the written word. Steven Hall swims in the same surreal waters as pop-culture pioneers David Lynch and Michel Gondry, and The Raw Shark Texts deserves to be shelved somewhere between Trainspotting and Life of Pi. It pulls you under like a riptide, leaving you exhausted, exhilarated, and gasping for air.

But don't just take our word for it. We asked Audrey Niffenegger, one of the most creative contemporary writers working today, to share with readers her take on Steven Hall's debut novel, The Raw Shark Texts. Check out her exclusive Amazon guest review below. --Brad Thomas Parsons


Guest Reviewer: Audrey Niffenegger

Audrey Niffenegger is a professor in the Interdisciplinary Books Arts MFA Program at the Columbia College Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts. A visual artist, she shows her artwork at Printworks Gallery in Chicago. The Time Traveler's Wife, her first novel, was an international bestseller and was one of Amazon.com's Best Books of 2003. It won several awards and is being made into a major motion picture. Her visual novels, The Three Incestuous Sisters and The Adventuress, were recently published by Harry N. Abrams. Miss Niffenegger is currently hard at work on her second novel, Her Fearful Symmetry, a ghost story set in London's Highgate Cemetery.

Eric Sanderson has lost his memory, his girl, his life as he once knew it. His pre-amnesiac self is sending him letters, a sort of correspondence course on how to be Eric Sanderson. Unfortunately, this previous self didn't really have it all together either. This is too bad, because the source of all the trouble is a conceptual shark, a Ludovician shark, no less. Soon Eric is on the run, trying to piece it all together and find true love before his mind gets wiped by the shark for the twelfth and probably final time.

Steven Hall is an inventive, funny and extremely smart writer. I am a letterpress printer and a typophile, and I was drawn to his book because of the typography: The Raw Shark Texts is riddled with typographic games, codes, a flip book, and a boatload of very elegant plot devices that hinge on collisions between the Information Age and the imagination. At one point Eric and Scout, his guide/love interest, are speeding away from the conceptual shark on a motorbike. Scout eludes the shark by exploding a letter bomb, a bomb made out of old metal type; the type diverts the shark into a stream of random letterforms. At this I practically fell off the couch with admiration.

There's plenty to groove on in The Raw Sharks Texts even if you're not a type maven. There's echoes of Cyberpunk, Borges, Auster; there is adventure on the high seas, lost love, an exploration of what it means to be human in the age of intelligent machines. The Raw Sharks Texts is huge fun, and I gleefully recommend it. --Audrey Niffenegger

]]> 2007 0 1 false Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 23 08:03:04 -0700 2008 Mon May 05 15:02:15 -0700 2008 know a character is a direct stand-in for the author? Take this book, for example. I simply could not shake the feeling that the narrator--a sadsack, lonely guy pining over the loss of his great and perfect love--is pretty much the absolute alter-e...more...]]> 9368367 253624 144800 1841959111 9781841959115 493 <![CDATA[The Raw Shark Texts]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172166063m/144800.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172166063s/144800.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/144800.The_Raw_Shark_Texts 3.75 2117 The Raw Shark Texts is ultimately a novel about the magnitude of love and the devastating effect of losing that love.]]> 2007 4 1 false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Nov 20 15:31:16 -0800 2007 Tue Nov 20 15:31:16 -0800 2007 more...]]> 6258907 29939 953284 1841959022 9781841959023 19 <![CDATA[The Raw Shark Texts]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179764560m/953284.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179764560s/953284.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/953284.The_Raw_Shark_Texts 3.83 66 A March 2007 Significant 7 Editors' Pick: Not since Fight Club have a I read a book that sizzled with such fierce originality and searing vision as Steven Hall's electrifying debut novel, The Raw Shark Texts. It's a twisting, trippy thriller that tears through the landscape of language, revealing the lurking terrors uncovered in every letter of the written word. Steven Hall swims in the same surreal waters as pop-culture pioneers David Lynch and Michel Gondry, and The Raw Shark Texts deserves to be shelved somewhere between Trainspotting and Life of Pi. It pulls you under like a riptide, leaving you exhausted, exhilarated, and gasping for air.

But don't just take our word for it. We asked Audrey Niffenegger, one of the most creative contemporary writers working today, to share with readers her take on Steven Hall's debut novel, The Raw Shark Texts. Check out her exclusive Amazon guest review below. --Brad Thomas Parsons


<B class=h1>Guest Reviewer: Audrey Niffenegger

Audrey Niffenegger is a professor in the Interdisciplinary Books Arts MFA Program at the Columbia College Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts. A visual artist, she shows her artwork at Printworks Gallery in Chicago. The Time Traveler's Wife, her first novel, was an international bestseller and was one of Amazon.com's Best Books of 2003. It won several awards and is being made into a major motion picture. Her visual novels, The Three Incestuous Sisters and The Adventuress, were recently published by Harry N. Abrams. Miss Niffenegger is currently hard at work on her second novel, Her Fearful Symmetry, a ghost story set in London's Highgate Cemetery.

Eric Sanderson has lost his memory, his girl, his life as he once knew it. His pre-amnesiac self is sending him letters, a sort of correspondence course on how to be Eric Sanderson. Unfortunately, this previous self didn't really have it all together either. This is too bad, because the source of all the trouble is a conceptual shark, a Ludovician shark, no less. Soon Eric is on the run, trying to piece it all together and find true love before his mind gets wiped by the shark for the twelfth and probably final time.

Steven Hall is an inventive, funny and extremely smart writer. I am a letterpress printer and a typophile, and I was drawn to his book because of the typography: The Raw Shark Texts is riddled with typographic games, codes, a flip book, and a boatload of very elegant plot devices that hinge on collisions between the Information Age and the imagination. At one point Eric and Scout, his guide/love interest, are speeding away from the conceptual shark on a motorbike. Scout eludes the shark by exploding a letter bomb, a bomb made out of old metal type; the type diverts the shark into a stream of random letterforms. At this I practically fell off the couch with admiration.

There's plenty to groove on in The Raw Sharks Texts even if you're not a type maven. There's echoes of Cyberpunk, Borges, Auster; there is adventure on the high seas, lost love, an exploration of what it means to be human in the age of intelligent machines. The Raw Sharks Texts is huge fun, and I gleefully recommend it. --Audrey Niffenegger
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]]> 2007 4 1 false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Sep 15 17:55:26 -0700 2007 Sat Sep 15 18:04:14 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5422720 329383 144800 1841959111 9781841959115 493 <![CDATA[The Raw Shark Texts]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172166063m/144800.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172166063s/144800.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/144800.The_Raw_Shark_Texts 3.75 2117 The Raw Shark Texts is ultimately a novel about the magnitude of love and the devastating effect of losing that love.]]> 2007 4 1 false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Aug 31 09:21:10 -0700 2007 Mon Nov 05 11:20:07 -0800 2007 more...]]> 23262129 916030 144800 1841959111 9781841959115 493 <![CDATA[The Raw Shark Texts]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172166063m/144800.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172166063s/144800.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/144800.The_Raw_Shark_Texts 3.75 2117 The Raw Shark Texts is ultimately a novel about the magnitude of love and the devastating effect of losing that love.]]> 2007 4 1 false Sat May 31 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu May 29 17:24:05 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 10 12:21:12 -0700 2008
He has, at least 3 sensational ide...more...]]> 2459029 157924 144800 1841959111 9781841959115 493 <![CDATA[The Raw Shark Texts]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172166063m/144800.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172166063s/144800.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/144800.The_Raw_Shark_Texts 3.75 2117 The Raw Shark Texts is ultimately a novel about the magnitude of love and the devastating effect of losing that love.]]> 2007 5 1 false Wed Jun 27 15:18:43 -0700 2007 Wed Dec 16 22:55:04 -0800 2009 One of teh more original pieces of fiction i've read in quite some time.

This is a book not everyone will love but everyone should read. I need to read it again just to brush up on wh...more...]]> 35169444 1049344 144800 1841959111 9781841959115 493 <![CDATA[The Raw Shark Texts]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172166063m/144800.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172166063s/144800.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/144800.The_Raw_Shark_Texts 3.75 2117 The Raw Shark Texts is ultimately a novel about the magnitude of love and the devastating effect of losing that love.]]> 2007 3 1 false Mon Nov 10 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Oct 13 05:21:08 -0700 2008 Mon Nov 10 05:15:17 -0800 2008 more...]]> 8 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=2081374