false <![CDATA[Palimpsest]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256081312m/3973532.jpg 3973532 1 There is a city you have never heard of. It is a city of dreams and flesh, of night-terrors and exaltation. It is a city that exists as a virus, passed from person to person, on skin and on bone, streets and alleys and factories and orchestral halls crawling and thriving, infinitesimally small, on the bodies of those who have been touched by Palimpsest. And once you have entered this place, once you have tasted it, you will do anything to get back. 4019291 24 2 2009 Palimpsest total:178|5:60|4:58|3:29|2:21|1:10| 178 671 575 70 5 4 false false Fri Mar 06 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Mar 05 07:41:26 -0800 2009 Fri Mar 06 09:58:44 -0800 2009
It's an intoxicating read. For the continuing prese...more...]]> 4 2 false true Sat Mar 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 13 08:13:29 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 22 06:25:45 -0700 2009 Palimpsest reminded me a bit of Italo Calvino and a bit of China Mieville. It traces the journeys of four characters, back to each other and b...more...]]> 5 1 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Mar 15 18:03:05 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 15 18:33:14 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Feb 26 06:57:42 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 26 06:58:10 -0800 2009 Tor.com says about this book:

Palimpsest...in 60 Seconds
John Joseph Adams

Fantasy author Catherynne M. Valente told Tor.com that her new novel, Palimpsest, is an urban fantasy, but not in the way that term might imply; the eponymous Palimpsest is a sexually-transmitted ci...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri May 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu May 21 10:01:06 -0700 2009 Thu May 21 10:12:28 -0700 2009 To me, Valente's writing was an odd blend of Ursula K. Leguin and Lord Dunsany. My first exposure to this novel was at a staged reading of excerpts, where sh...more...]]> 4 1 false true Fri Aug 07 10:42:02 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 11 11:14:20 -0700 2009
There is one exception. The one tr...more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue May 26 23:25:30 -0700 2009 Fri May 22 12:53:04 -0700 2009 Tue May 26 23:25:30 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 7 false false Tue Aug 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 04 11:43:33 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 11 09:40:07 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1 1 false false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 11 13:35:42 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 18 23:52:30 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Fri Mar 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 25 06:57:25 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 02 08:08:21 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 2 0 false false Mon May 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri May 15 18:40:02 -0700 2009 Mon May 25 07:29:55 -0700 2009
Unfortunately, this book didn't go anyplace. Valente is highly educated and can really spin off some brilliant metaphor. But these bohemian characters don't do...more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Mar 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 03 07:35:46 -0800 2009 Tue Mar 10 11:14:04 -0700 2009
The titular city, Palimpsest, is an alternate world of alchemy and beauty that people from our world can enter only by sex with another person that has been there. Visitors to Palimpsest always come in fours, calle...more...]]> 0 0 false false Mon Mar 02 15:23:31 -0800 2009 Tue Mar 24 14:55:06 -0700 2009
Just thought that should be clear from the beginning.
Not sure about you, but I revel in those moments of discovery. I adore the blissful realization that there are many pleasurable reading hours ahead! When I first read a tidbit of Ms. Valen...more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Sep 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 15 12:06:53 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 09 13:27:31 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Sep 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 08 08:12:40 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 10 07:26:20 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Wed Aug 05 19:38:33 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 09 16:39:14 -0700 2009
Between life and death, dreaming and waking, at the train stop beyond the end of the world is the city of Palimpsest. To get there is a miracle, a mystery, a gift, and a curse – a voyage permitted only to those who’ve ...
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I really loved the writing s...more...]]> 1 0 false false Sun Jul 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 08 07:24:14 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 15 09:09:11 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1 0 false false Wed Jul 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 06 10:15:43 -0800 2009 Tue Jul 21 21:42:09 -0700 2009
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