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Title	:	The End of Mr. Y
Author	:	Scarlett Thomas
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 402 pages
Published	:	October 2nd 2006 by Mariner Books (first published 2006)
Categories	:	Fiction. Fantasy. Science Fiction. Mystery

The End of Mr. Y

Scarlett Thomas

Paperback | Pages: 402 pages

Rating: 3.79 | 14935 Users | 1620 Reviews

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A cursed book. A missing professor. Some nefarious men in gray suits. And a dreamworld called the Troposphere?

Ariel Manto has a fascination with nineteenth-century scientists--especially Thomas Lumas and The End of Mr. Y, a book no one alive has read. When she mysteriously uncovers a copy at a used bookstore, Ariel is launched into an adventure of science and faith, consciousness and death, space and time, and everything in between.

Seeking answers, Ariel follows in Mr. Y’s footsteps: She swallows a tincture, stares into a black dot, and is transported into the Troposphere--a wonderland where she can travel through time and space using the thoughts of others. There she begins to understand all the mysteries surrounding the book, herself, and the universe. Or is it all just a hallucination?

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Original Title:	The End of Mr. Y.
ISBN:	0156031612 (ISBN13: 9780156031615)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Wolfgang, Adam, Ariel Manto, Apollo Smintheus, Saul Burlem
Literary Awards:	Orange Prize Nominee for Fiction Longlist (2008)

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Ratings: 3.79 From 14935 Users | 1620 Reviews

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This is a good example of good idea executed badly. I liked the concept and the first 25 pages. Ariel Manto is doing a Phd on a strange author from the 1800s and by accident comes across his rarest book in a used bookstore. What follows is an account of what she does with the contents of the book and the suspense of a mystery involving two creepy American policemen who are out to get her, it seems.but in reality, what follows is the author showcasing how much she knows about philosophy and how

TransferanceSeveral years ago I was passing a charity shop and through the window, I spotted a number of books for sale, so I ventured inside. This book really stood out so I bought it. I was absolutely intrigued when I realised that the main protagonist (Ariel Manto) bought her copy of The End of Mr Y in a second-hand bookshop. I opened the cover and started reading hoping that my expectation of a fantasy adventure wasnt just about to be smashed. From the first page, I was hooked, an immediate

I couldn't wait to finish this book... but not because I was hooked, perched on the edge of my seat as I desperately waited to see how everything turned out, I just wanted the tedium to end.It wasn't even the constant drip-feed of Philosophy and Quantum Physics that had me yawning and searching for the nearest caffiene source. In fact, that was the most interesting part of the book. (If you can overlook the obsessive name-dropping and reference to Derrida on almost every single page.) The way it



I can not even begin to process all the events, ideas, and theories in this book. I need time to contemplate and gather my thoughts in order to write even a mediocre review.

Like Thomas' PopCo, I found this both fascinating and frustrating. Thomas definitely achieves something really special with her ability to make her writing intensely cerebral (some of my favorite parts of Mr. Y were the digressions into quantum physics and other brain-stretching topics) while at the same time creating very human, flawed characters. Still, there's a quality of...coldness that prevents me from becoming emotionally involved. Perhaps the whole thing seems too clever, too

I have Scarlett Thomas to thank for a little embarrassing moment of discovering another little nugget of my own sexism. I thought, I can't dis- this book and give it one star. But why not? Because she's a she and I don't want to be mean? Better to be honest: this book is, I'm just going to say it: STUPID.The hype totally had me; I couldn't not read it: thought experiments (none actually handled), the nature of consciousness (adding an alternate reality does not interrogate the subject), Derrida