false \ 968711 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg 142181 16 2226603 book 5 1974 Inverted World: A Novel total:177|5:35|4:78|3:52|2:11|1:1| 177 666 356 43 142181 0060134216 9780060134211 118 24 3.76 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1245646253m/142181.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/142181.The_Inverted_World_A_Novel 4 3 false Mon Nov 17 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Nov 14 18:24:00 -0800 2008 Tue Nov 18 13:35:20 -0800 2008 1
I had never read Priest before, but I picked this up randomly when I was on travel and running out of reading material. It was shelved next to The Prestige, his 1996 (IIRC?) nove...more...]]> 142181 0060134216 9780060134211 118 24 3.76 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1245646253m/142181.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/142181.The_Inverted_World_A_Novel 4 1 false Tue Jan 27 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 25 06:54:07 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 30 07:04:06 -0800 2009
As a sff fan, I have to say that I usually don't find idea stories in themselves to be satisfying. I need either strong plot or strong characterization to go with them. This means that I'm not much of Heinlein fan or a fan of the great oldies of...more...]]> 2220811 207042149X 9782070421497 7 1 3.76 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2220811.Le_Monde_inverti 5 1 false Sun Aug 26 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Apr 27 15:39:14 -0700 2008 Sun Jul 27 19:26:34 -0700 2008 Ainsi avec ce héros de milles kilom...more...]]> 142181 0060134216 9780060134211 118 24 3.76 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1245646253m/142181.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/142181.The_Inverted_World_A_Novel 4 0 false Sun Feb 08 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 10 10:09:42 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 10 10:37:23 -0800 2009 more...]]> 142181 0060134216 9780060134211 118 24 3.76 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1245646253m/142181.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/142181.The_Inverted_World_A_Novel 4 0 false Sat Sep 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 19 07:17:41 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 19 07:41:30 -0700 2009 more...]]> 142181 0060134216 9780060134211 118 24 3.76 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1245646253m/142181.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/142181.The_Inverted_World_A_Novel 3 0 false Mon Feb 23 17:14:07 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 23 17:55:11 -0800 2009 more...]]> 142181 0060134216 9780060134211 118 24 3.76 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1245646253m/142181.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/142181.The_Inverted_World_A_Novel 5 1 false Wed Apr 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 29 17:13:16 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 29 17:26:27 -0700 2009
This was a stellar read, part mystery, part science fiction. I found the "answer" of the book to be fulfilling, not what I expected ...more...]]> 2376115 1590172698 9781590172698 44 18 3.76 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2376115.Inverted_World 4 0 false Wed Jul 22 18:38:59 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 22 18:43:00 -0700 2009
I won't go into the mystery of the plot since that would ruin the fun, but suffice to say, ...more...]]> 142181 0060134216 9780060134211 118 24 3.76 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1245646253m/142181.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/142181.The_Inverted_World_A_Novel 4 0 false Sun Jan 25 21:57:06 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 10 15:43:05 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 25 21:57:06 -0800 2009 more...]]> 142181 0060134216 9780060134211 118 24 3.76 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1245646253m/142181.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/142181.The_Inverted_World_A_Novel 4 1 false Thu Sep 27 13:44:27 -0700 2007 Thu Sep 27 13:48:15 -0700 2007 2376115 1590172698 9781590172698 44 18 3.76 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2376115.Inverted_World 4 0 false Wed Dec 31 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 22 09:40:24 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 31 14:17:34 -0800 2008 1 more...]]> 2376115 1590172698 9781590172698 44 18 3.76 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2376115.Inverted_World 4 0 false Sun Mar 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 11 10:48:46 -0700 2008 Tue Mar 17 13:25:03 -0700 2009 not an easy one to review. On one hand, Inverted World appears pretty straightforward: Helward Mann comes of age in the city of Earth and ventures outside for the first time, where he learns that the city rests on wheels, forever rolling north alo...more...]]> 2376115 1590172698 9781590172698 44 18 3.76 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2376115.Inverted_World 4 0 false Mon Jun 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 18 12:02:35 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 22 09:24:43 -0700 2009 more...]]> 142181 0060134216 9780060134211 118 24 3.76 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1245646253m/142181.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/142181.The_Inverted_World_A_Novel 4 0 false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1975 Tue Dec 09 06:59:42 -0800 2008 Fri May 15 10:00:18 -0700 2009
Much to his credit, Christopher Priest manages to turn this observation into a metaphor which forms the basis of an imaginative, well-written science-...more...]]> 2376115 1590172698 9781590172698 44 18 3.76 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2376115.Inverted_World 4 0 false Fri Feb 06 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 18:29:04 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 21 10:39:22 -0800 2009 Iron Council in a strange way as well.

A great example of well crafted science fiction that slowly reveals the scientific "mystery"...more...]]> 2376115 1590172698 9781590172698 44 18 3.76 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2376115.Inverted_World 5 1 false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu May 14 14:27:42 -0700 2009 Thu May 14 14:38:56 -0700 2009 more...]]> 142181 0060134216 9780060134211 118 24 3.76 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1245646253m/142181.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/142181.The_Inverted_World_A_Novel 4 0 false Sat Mar 21 09:53:51 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 17 21:18:36 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 21 09:53:51 -0700 2009 more...]]> 142181 0060134216 9780060134211 118 24 3.76 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1245646253m/142181.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/142181.The_Inverted_World_A_Novel 5 0 false Tue Dec 23 23:57:15 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 24 00:00:22 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2376115 1590172698 9781590172698 44 18 3.76 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2376115.Inverted_World 4 0 false Mon Mar 02 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Mar 03 01:11:59 -0800 2009 Tue Mar 03 01:15:09 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2376115 1590172698 9781590172698 44 18 3.76 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2376115.Inverted_World 3 0 false Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 18 07:27:47 -0700 2008 Sat Nov 14 08:53:08 -0800 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=968711