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Only Forward de Michael M. Smith
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Only Forward (1994 original; edició 2002)

de Michael M. Smith

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Michael Marshall Smith's surreal, groundbreaking, and award-winning debut which resonates with wild humour interlaced with dark recollections of an emotional minefield. May we introduce you to Stark. Oh, and by the way -- good luck. Stark is the private investigator who goes to work when Something Happens to you. And when a Something happens it's no good chanting 'go away go away go away' and cowering in a corner, because a Something always comes from your darkest past and won't be beaten until you face it. And that's not easy in a city where reality is twisting and broken, a world in which friends can become enemies in a heartbeat -- and where your most secret fear can become a soul-shredding reality. And the worst of it is, for this nightmare you don't even have to be asleep... Considered a modern classic, and consistently featured in lists of Books To Read Before Your Head Explodes, ONLY FORWARD is a novel you'll never forget.… (més)
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Títol:Only Forward
Autors:Michael M. Smith
Informació:Subterranean Press (2002), Hardcover, 270 pages
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Only Forward de Michael Marshall Smith (1994)

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This is a very strange book, not only because of the absolutely weird setting but also because of the story telling. I think I have never read a book in which the narrator was actively holding back information and telling me things that turned out not to be true. This made the book seem a little "alive" and made the mystery very interesting.
I wasn't really into the book at first, even though I really liked the writing style, but when the story started heating up I was hooked and read through to the end in one go. ( )
  bramboomen | Oct 18, 2023 |
En un mundo donde el pasado y el futuro, la realidad y los suenos se encuentran y sostienen un pulso, solo Stark, un detective inteligente y nada convencional, puede marcar la diferencia.Una primera novela de desbordante imaginacion, con la cual se dio a conocer Michael Marshall Saber más... Smith, el autor de Clones y Sueños
  Natt90 | Nov 2, 2022 |
Wow. Ok. That was unexpected, for a number of reasons. Let me start with the easiest, most personal one - I try to reserve my "eyeball" reading time for books that either I can't get in audio format, or for short story collections, as I sometimes like to juggle multiple short story books simultaneously, and that's much easier with my eyes. For some reason, I'd tagged this book as a short story collection. Since it doesn't appear to have ever been produced in audiobook format, and is highly rated by goodreads' users, I finally pulled it off of my to-read shelf after 2 1/2 years.
Right off the bat, I determine that it's not a short story collection, but I decide to stick with it. That was my first, personal "unexpected" - a simple miscategorization on my part.
Since I'd somehow mis-tagged it as a SS, then the follow up to that was that I didn't read the description, and I didn't read that it had received a Philip K. Dick award.
I like PKD, especially his books that deal with unreliable realities. So it didn't take long for this book to really CLICK with me. At one point, the main character has a discussion with the walls of his neighborhood about the color of his pants. I immediately mentally tagged this one as WEIRD.
And it continued from there. Weird. Witty. Thrilling. Mind-bending. Touching. Surprising. Unexpected.
I'll be thinking about this one for a while.
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  KrakenTamer | Oct 23, 2021 |
Weird. Really. Hard to classify too. The first half of the book follows Stark, who is hired to find an important person, who is believed to have been kidnapped. He lives in an interesting alternative world, with many oddball friends and neighborhoods, my favorite of which is the Cat Neighborhood. About halfway through, everything changes as we are abruptly transitioned into a dreamworld, with little upfront explanation. As the explanation unfolds bit by bit, we long for a cohesive end. There is an ending, but it was unsatisfying as we learned how Stark became who he is. Perhaps most frustrating, at least to me, was the introduction of central and pivotal characters in the last 20-25 pages. ( )
  skipstern | Jul 11, 2021 |
5 Star Favorite. Brilliant surreal sci-fi. ( )
  Tracyalanb | Apr 4, 2021 |
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Michael Marshall Smithautor primaritotes les edicionscalculat
Jaspersen, KnudAutor de la cobertaautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Kempen, BernhardTraductorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat

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Michael Marshall Smith's surreal, groundbreaking, and award-winning debut which resonates with wild humour interlaced with dark recollections of an emotional minefield. May we introduce you to Stark. Oh, and by the way -- good luck. Stark is the private investigator who goes to work when Something Happens to you. And when a Something happens it's no good chanting 'go away go away go away' and cowering in a corner, because a Something always comes from your darkest past and won't be beaten until you face it. And that's not easy in a city where reality is twisting and broken, a world in which friends can become enemies in a heartbeat -- and where your most secret fear can become a soul-shredding reality. And the worst of it is, for this nightmare you don't even have to be asleep... Considered a modern classic, and consistently featured in lists of Books To Read Before Your Head Explodes, ONLY FORWARD is a novel you'll never forget.

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