Jeff Noon - Vurt - Audio Book

Vurt tells the story of Scribble and his "gang", the Stash Riders, as they search for his missing sister/lover Desdemona. The novel is set in an alternate version of Manchester, England, in which society has been shaped by Vurt, a hallucinogenic drug/shared alternate reality, accessed by sucking on colour-coded feathers. Through some (never explained) mechanism, the dreams, mythology, and imaginings of humanity have achieved objective reality in the Vurt and become "real". Before the novel begins, Scribble and his sister-lover take a shared trip into a vurt called English Voodoo, but upon awakening Scribble finds his sister has been replaced by an amorphous blob he nicknames "The Thing from Outer Space". From that point on, Scribble is on a mission to find another copy of the rare and contraband Curious Yellow feather (found within English Voodoo), so that he can exchange The Thing for Desdemona. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vurt An excellent audiobook of an excellent book. Well read, the reader creates believable characters. Playing time 4:36 - converted from cassette tapes.

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zenozeno (2009-05-15)

Is this working for everybody? I love this recording and hope everyone else gets a chance to enjoy it.

rossp (2013-03-30)

The audio quality's fine on this, files work fine. Thanks for the U/L.
I love Jeff Noon's crazy Vurt world; the only psychedelic cyberpunk I've ever seen. I would recommend this as an easy way to get into his work, BUT after you have a listen go and get the book, then Pollen, and possibly Nymphomation. The way Noon writes works much better in prose, and the choice for McGann as narrator was not the best.
Give it a chance and then have a read.