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The Book With No Name | 
 enlarge | Author: Anonymous
Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books
Category: Book
List Price: £7.99
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Rating:  70 reviews
Sales Rank: 1257
Media: Paperback
Pages: 384
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5 x 1
ISBN: 1843172836
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.92
EAN: 9781843172833
ASIN: 1843172836
Publication Date: June 1, 2007
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 I'm surprised this got published. November 16, 2008
hyperconformist (Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The Book with no Name fails to live up to it's dubious hype. No wonder the author wants to remain anonymous - the writing is very poor, the plot is juvenile and half-baked and the characters are unconvincing. I like both plot-driven and character-driven books but this is neither it just stumbles around and disappoints at every turn. If only the minimal sex references and maybe some of the strong language had been removed TBWNN would have been an acceptable book for young teens (actually, it might well have been written by a teenager). While trying to be zany and stylised it's just hackneyed and awkward. There's nothing new here and it's all been done better before. Only out of morbid curiosity did I keep reading to the stupid end. Not even gratuitous violence and swearing manages to redeem this book, it's just really really bad. EPIC FAIL, DON'T READ.
 Ideal for teen boys November 11, 2008
A. Butterfield (Newcastle, UK)
This book was entertaining enough but really better suited to a teenage boy. It is full of gore and violence and a little mild sex an a little humour. It reminded me a lot of Dusk til dawn and was as if a rubbish Terry Pratchett had written a vamp novel from lots of cobbled together bits of vamp films.
That said I am a 30 year old female and I know I would have enjoyed it more had I been a lot younger.
 Why, God? WHY?! November 8, 2008
The Dude (Liverpool, Merseyside)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Nice overly dramatic title from my good self there...matches the contrived plot and the god-awful writing.
I bought this book after reading John Dies at the End, which was also published online first, and is a bloody good read (free, if you view it online). This, however, is neither free, nor a good read. It feels like a badly written fiction piece, pulled off the net by a greedy publisher desperate to make a statement. Unfortunately that statement was 'I don't make enough money to employ an editor'.
Avoid like the plague if you love all good urban fantasy.
 Simply Outstanding October 7, 2008
Joby1
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
I read this book cover to cover in two days (only stopping because I had to go to work) and followed it up straight away with The Eye of The Moon. It's been a very long time since I've read something I enjoyed this much. The fact that it's peppered with vampires, werewolves, serial killers and all kinds of weird and wonderful characters only adds to its charm. I don't think I've ever read anything I could compare it with, although if pushed I would say there are faint echoes of Stephen King's gunslinger books (but with more humour). It reminds me in places of Dean Koontz's Odd Thomas series - but only if you crossed it with Quentin Tarantino's `From Dusk `Till Dawn' or `Kill Bill'. At times I even found myself thinking of a light-hearted comparison to Anne Rice's `Memnoch The Devil'. The simple fact is though, that this book is unlike anything else I've ever read. If you hate this book, it's simply because you don't get it. It's not trying to be a clever book - it is a clever book, not least because despite its subject content and dubious characters, it is very, very amusing. Elvis is alive - albeit as a notorious killer! I would face down the Bourbon Kid with a smile on my face if I could only find out who really wrote this! Would the anonymous author please reveal him(her)self or at the very least write another book!!!
rubbish October 2, 2008
Mr. Alan Currie (Dublin)
5 out of 10 found this review helpful
i bought this book based on the other reviews, and i cant help thinking the good reviews were written by friends of the author, it is truly a horrid overdramatic story with no proper direction, i found it boring beyond compare, do yourself a favour and dont buy it, its no wonder they had to try and sell it with such gimmicks as "everyone who reads it ends up dead", spend your money elsewhere, you will thank me for it!
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