Product 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...

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1382 in Books
• Published on: 2007-06-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 384 pages

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"

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

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

Customer Reviews

I'm surprised this got published.
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
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?!
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.