I hereby proclaim Tony Burgess some kind of mad genius whom I’m terrified of even though I know he’s a nice guy who once saved a kitten from drowning. His works have always danced on the dark side, but even when weighed against his past output of Pontypool Changes Everything, People Live Still in Cashtown Corners, Idaho Winter, and Fiction for Lovers: Freshly Cut Tales of Flesh, Fear, Larvae, and Love, The n-Body Problem is way, way, way out there. Pushing the zombie genre into places it’s never...

Full disclosure I received an electronic copy of this book to review from NetGalley. This is one of those books where I kept waiting for it to get better but by the time I was willing to concede that wasn't going to happen I was too close to the end to stop. I was initially intrigued by the plot summary because it mentioned zombies and sounded as if it might have a fresh perspective on the genre. My guess now is that the summary was written by someone at the publisher who couldn't find any great...

Borrowed from NetGalley for an honest review.I did not finish reading this book. I thought this was really boring and poorly written. It made absolutely no sense what so ever and I refused to read anymore.

Have you ever felt like something was too weird, but you kind of loved it anyway? This novel begins that way, a sort of hard boiled pulp, end of the world story, but it ends in incomprehensible weirdness. Pontypool Changes Everything was beyond strange... I guess two makes for a pattern. Probably a five star book until the last fifty pages.

This is the dead Disney princess of literature.What would happen if you mixed heavy metal with a cancer ward, turning the world into sad walking zombies that aren't particularly dangerous... just disgusting, roving, mounds of sex... and then decide that the only way to take care of the hoards is to shoot them into near-Earth orbit.It absolutely has great writing, but NOTHING about this is easy, comfortable, or particularly sane. Depressing? Yes, as can be foretold by the pages-worth of antidepre...

A fresh and original take on the Zombie story, one of two that this author has achieved (seriously, check out 'Pontypool Changes Everything' for the other). Talent overflows in this short, but absolutely cracking novel. Great tone and pace, with writing that achieves a strangely poetic tone along the way. Reading the work of Burgess is like trying to navigate through the nightmare of someone else. It's incredibly effective and frightening, though at times it doesn't seem to make sense. Those wer...

Thinking.. Please wait0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0oOkay. Now that I've had some time to process, I'm going to try and review this thing. The way I see it, there are two kinds of people who are going to be reading this. For People Who Are New To Tony BurgessThis book is probably not for you, at least not just yet. Start with Pontypool Changes Everything, fall in love with Burgess, read a couple of his other books maybe, THEN approach this book. Otherwise, I think you run the risk

Even though this is my first Tony Burgess read, I'm not exactly a Burgess virgin. He's a bit of a cult figure in Canada, thanks largely in part to the iconic zombie flick Pontypool, based on his novel Pontypool Changes Everything. Confession time: I've seen the movie (it's brilliant), but I never got around to reading Burgess's book. Or anything else by him either. Until now. Sweet Jebus. I was dimly aware of his reputation as a gore master, a mad splatter genius who frequently pushes boundaries...

The blurb sure was interesting. Shame that the author didn't agree. The book reads like Chuck Palahniuk wanted to write a zombie story, but lost interest in that about 20 pages in and instead decided to reprint all of his middle school dream journals.There's no character logic to be found here. Characters behave randomly, choosing whatever would be considered the most extreeemeee. Occasionally, the author gives up and just limply lists atrocities that his characters might have gotten up to in th...

I read this because it was on io9.com book club and the sinopsis was interesting.The supposed central issue of the book is not actually very relevant. The fact that there are billions of corpses floating in orbit is only tangential to the book. It's only revelant as the reason, or part of it, why people are so depressed, desolate and giving up on life. This books is really about what the world would be like if most people lost the will to live.You've probably read about how it has some necrophil...

excuse me but what the fuck

I'm liking this guy more and more for the psychotic genius he is. Brilliant and depraved. The perverse atrocities that have everyone's panties in a bunch are so damned inventive and so well written that I was far more riveted than disgusted. Moving the rest of his books quickly up the TBR list. (People Live Still in Cashtown Corners is already a favorite.)---"Nothing is possible. It is always and forever better to never have been born.""That's how you do it. You don't change the picture. You des...

disclaimer – i received an e-galley of this book from chizine publications in exchange for an honest review.when the zombie apocalypse came the world knew what it meant. it meant mindless, marauding, ravenous flesh-machines. it meant destroyed ways of life, horrible and painful death for the living, and fear. only, in time, the world realized that it didn’t mean that at all. the zombies didn’t want to eat they just sort of laid there, twitching. so not only was the world unprepared, it was at a

From what I've read so far, the people who read this book fall into two categories: absolute fans who salivate at all the blood and guts and bits and things, and people who just threw up. I occupy a weird place in the middle, as with in most things. Tony Burgess is a very adept writer with a distinctive style, and he makes some fascinating choices in constructing his story. At the same time, some of those choices don't exactly work, and I'm left at the end with a pile of questions and nattering

'In the end, the zombie apocalypse was nothing more than a waste disposal problem… The acceptable answer is to jettison the millions of immortal automatons into orbit… Soon, Earth's near space is a mesh of bodies interfering with the sunlight, having an effect on our minds that we never saw coming.' So reads the back cover blurb for The n-Body Problem. I admit, I found it intriguing. I'm not that much into zombies, but I thought a practical approach to the issue was novel, and so I requested the...

I can't believe all the reviewers claiming the book was too violent or disturbing for them. It's a horror novel. A good one. It's supposed to incite feelings of terror and disgust. Probably not a good pick for people looking for more Walking Dead zombie garbage, but a pleasant surprise if you're looking for something a little more challenging and engaging. This book isn't for everyone, and that's okay. It's an amazing little gem for readers who can appreciate the beauty and lyricism in horror. I...

This book is definitely not for everyone. The imagery is so grotesque, and the defilement of bodies so profane and so ubiquitous, that I know many people who would stop within the first few pages and never go back. I had nightmares within fifteen minutes of closing my eyes, and that was after reading just the first forty pages.But I could not put it down. I had to keep going back. I could hardly even look away, like a rubbernecker at a roadside decapitation.It is not all gore for gore's sake, al...

Tony Burgess is the human centipede of CanLit. I want to see the movie of this.

This was definetely not what I was expecting, it was too macabre and weird (in a bad way) and I just cannot finish it

you can't handle this book.i was going to leave it at that, because it sums up my experience with the book ezzactly, but it's not really fair to the gods of netgalley or to my beloved czp, so i suppose i can dig deep into my overtaxed brain and find another sentence or two. the fact remains - you can't handle this book. and i'm not making a character judgment; you're fine the way you are, it's just that tony burgess is… how do i put this politely?? a maniac?? and also what i called him on this r...