The Book With No Name

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Editorial reviews

The Daily Sport, 2nd June 07
"This particular Anonymous has decided to take a fistful of drugs and gone
on a literary genre-bender... punchy and witty... reading this mad book
feels like riding one of those bikes with square wheels... a slightly
strange experience but a lot of fun"

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Zoo Magazine, July 07
"Possibly drug-induced lunacy of a book" - 4 stars

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Manchester Evening News, July 07
Make sure you keep the big light on.

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Manchester Evening News, 14th July 07
"This caused quite a stir in its original self-published form
on the internet, but now you can hide behind the settee to read it. Make
sure you keep the big light on."

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Book Description
For many centuries the shelves of a library in South America held a terrible secret. Sitting on these shelves was a book with no name, written by an anonymous author. Everyone who ever read it ended up dead, yet the book always found it's way back to the library. In 2005 a special government investigator uncovered the truth about the book and it's link to the murders. Now available in paperback, you can discover for yourself the reason why no one ever read the book and lived, until now.....

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Synopsis
Detective Miles Jensen is called to the lawless town of Santa Mondega to investigate a spate of murders. This would all be quite ordinary in those rough streets, except that Jensen is the Chief Detective of Supernatural Investigations. The breakneck plot centres around a mysterious blue stone - 'The Eye of the Moon' - and the men (and women) who all want to get their hands on it: a mass murderer with a drink problem, a hit man who thinks he's Elvis, and a pair of monks among them. Add in the local crime baron, an amnesiac woman who's just emerged from a five-year coma, a gypsy fortune teller and a hapless hotel porter, and the plot thickens fast. Most importantly, how do all these people come to be linked to the strange book with no name? This is the anonymous, ancient book that no one seems to have survived reading. "The Book With No Name" is a fast-paced, cinematic page-turner shot through with black humour, which will hold you rapt from its intriguing opening to the dramatic climax. There's only one way to find out what happens when you read the book with no name...A book with no name - by an anonymous author. Everyone who has ever read it has been murdered. What can this mean?

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Customer reviews

review by: Black Coffee Smells Nice date: 2008-08-27 rating:
It was crap no wonder he didn't put his name to it.
This book is terrible. The plot is weak, the dialogue aims for Tarantino and ends up with crap. A whole page on the acting merits of Robert Redford, I mean really?

Don't read this book it's crap, it's so crap that I can't use another adjective for it other than crap, that's how much it has widened my vocabulary. Unbelievable.

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review by: date: 2008-08-13 rating:
An enjoyable read
I really enjoyed this book. It's funny, exciting, gory and different. I read it on holiday and have just started the sequel, The Eye of the Moon. It made me laugh out loud and I found I couldn't put it down, I wanted to keep going and find out what happened next. Give it a try, I think you'll like it!!

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review by: adelevbw date: 2008-08-07 rating:
Reads like a first draft
I bought this based on Amazon reviews and because I liked the story behind its publication. I found it far too guesomely violent for my taste - which isn't my major gripe, maybe I'm not the target audience - but what I was REALLY shocked by was how bad the writing is. The author is clearly inventive, but desperately needs a good editor. I never got into the book because the language was so clunky I kept tripping over it. I ploughed through to the end because I really wanted the book to be great but it just wasn't.

I hope the author gets more editorial help on future releases because I'm sure he can do better than this.

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review by: date: 2008-08-03 rating:
The Book With No Name
Having read such rapturous reviews on this page, about this book, I thought it high time I gave it a shot, and purchased this "Blockbuster".
Never in my life have I ever read a bigger load of NONSENCE, and I LOVED every page of it! This is not really my kinda novel, considering some if it's characters, like Elvis', murdering Monks, people who can only live in the dark, and Lord knows how many others. I have never read of so many murders (in all their gory detail) since "Bram Stokers Dracula", (little bit of a clue there!).
There being so many characters I thought would be confusing, but whoever ANON is, they make it unbelievably easy to keep up with them all, and the pace of the, many story-lines. I just cant help but think I have read this (or something very, very similar) before. Stephen King could have written this book, but it is not long winded enough. Dean Koontz, perhaps. But nearing the end of the book, it hit me - Richard Laymon. The similarities are close to "Savage", and there are other books of his where the stories run parallel.
But many books criss-cross with others, and that should not diminish the value, and experience of reading "The Book With No Name". Buy it, read it, pass it round to everyone you know, because this is a novel that no one should miss out on.


review by: date: 2008-07-25 rating:
Speghetti Western in Writing
There is a lot of hype around this book: it's an internet sensation, ground-breaking, novel piece of fiction, and there are rumours that the author has stoned while writing. And while all that is true, "The Book with No Name" doesn't really cut it.

The book has been described as Tarantino meet the Da Vinci Code - and I agree with the Tarantino part. Reading "The Book with No Name" is like watching a speghetti western - kitschy, violent, and thrilling in its no-nonsence-or-I'll-shoot-direction, but not extraordinary.

"The Book with No Name" follows a hord of different characters in Santa Mondega: the bartender Sanchez, detectives Somers and Jensen, the mysterious Jessica who woke from a 5-year coma, small crook Dante and his girlfriend Kacy, crime lord El Santino, two Hubal monks, the hooded Bourbon Kid - just to name some of them. It has a couple of chapters to get into the story, but the multitude of characters and points of view is part of the novel's cinematic approach, which I enjoyed.

A mythic necklace, called the Eye of the Moon is stolen from a Hubal temple and the search is on. Several parties have an interest in getting their hands on the necklace and there are no rules when finding the precious stone. Guns for hire, hitmen, thrieving, and occasionally sly planning are part of the game. I liked the story line, even though I really didn't take to the vampires in the second half of the book.

Definitely a book worth reading - but a bit of the edge.

Louise.

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