false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170793917m/71847.jpg 71847 12 <p> Andy Gage was born in 1965 and murdered not long after by his stepfather. . . . It was no ordinary murder. Though the torture and abuse that killed him were real, Andy Gage's death wasn't. Only his soul actually died, and when it died, it broke in pieces. Then the pieces became souls in their own right, coinheritors of Andy Gage's life. . . . </p> <p> While Andy deals with the outside world, more than a hundred other souls share an imaginary house inside Andy's head, struggling to maintain an orderly coexistence: Aaron, the father figure; Adam, the mischievous teenager; Jake, the frightened little boy; Aunt Sam, the artist; Seferis, the defender; and Gideon, who wants to get rid of Andy and the others and run things on his own. </p> <p> Andy's new coworker, Penny Driver, is also a multiple personality, a fact that Penny is only partially aware of. When several of Penny's other souls ask Andy for help, Andy reluctantly agrees, setting in motion a chain of events that threatens to destroy the stability of the house. Now Andy and Penny must work together to uncover a terrible secret that Andy has been keeping . . . from himself. </p> 2204766 book 2003 Set This House in Order: A Romance of Souls total:783|5:327|4:322|3:108|2:22|1:4| 783 3295 1079 150 4 14 false false Sun Apr 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 02 19:54:36 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 05 09:47:15 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 2 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Aug 12 09:46:19 -0700 2007 Sun Aug 12 10:04:17 -0700 2007
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I really enjoyed this book - the narrative voice especially drove it for me. Within the first three pages, I pinged something about the main character that turned out to be a big reveal later in the book, but I didn't feel ripped ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Jan 02 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 02 10:02:25 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 02 10:07:03 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 23 16:24:40 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 23 16:27:30 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Aug 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 23 10:18:59 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 23 12:10:32 -0700 2009 anyone, would have identified the disaster that Part Ten brings to the entire structure of the work.

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I really enjoyed this book. The opening chapter is fascinating and the author really did his homework on MPD. The story was complicated and yet not so much. The people you think are crazy are not so crazy afterall ...more...]]> 1 1 false false Wed Aug 22 13:21:32 -0700 2007 Wed Aug 22 13:23:14 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 10 12:00:19 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 28 20:00:48 -0700 2009 1) I did get absorbed in the story, and with me, that counts for something.
2) It wasn't so much of a "romance" as the subtitle suggests. Thankfully, because I am not in the mood to read romance novels right now.
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Somehow Ruff takes a story that, on its surface, doesn't have a lot of drama to it, and twists it into a wonderful qua...more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Jul 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 01 23:15:37 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 01 23:20:44 -0700 2009 too accurate. The thing about people is that most of what they think is ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 06 09:18:21 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 15 08:50:56 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Sep 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 04 08:30:32 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 11 14:50:15 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Sep 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 27 16:17:37 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 16 15:39:22 -0700 2009
Psychologically the most interesting book I've read BY FAR, with Fight Club coming in second. Multiple personalities have always interested me, and this depiction was so well done that the author made it seem almost normal, or even sligh...more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Oct 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jan 03 10:13:14 -0800 2009 Thu Oct 15 21:44:32 -0700 2009 1 Sewer, Gas and Electric The Public Works Trilogy and because it won a Tiptree Award. The first thing I love is how it is hardly at all like Sewer, Gas and Electric. There is no apocalypse, no robots or submarines, no goofiness at all really, but it's still ex...more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Mar 03 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Dec 15 18:27:23 -0800 2008 Tue Mar 03 20:45:47 -0800 2009 Set This House in Order: telling a story that involves not one but two characters with MPD, and juggles the interactions between not only the front-facing personalities of both, but many of the other personalities in their heads as well. And the amazing thing ...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=71847