The Gone-Away World

The Gone-Away World by Nick Harkaway is yet another novel to take the list of "Favorite Novels" and "Best Novel of the Year". Gong Fu, Ninjas, Pirates, Mimes, A Near-Apocalypse, Mutants, Man-Size Killer Bees with Razor Sharp Teeth, Love, Betrayal, War, Tupperware, Twists, Turns, and Bwahahahaha-Evil Villains. This book has all of that and more and looking from the outside, it seems utterly absurd. It is not. It is a novel that is, in turn, hilarious, serious, comfortable, and mind-screwing. It is five hundred some pages of fantastic peppered with an unhealthy amount of digressions that only add to the greatness of the novel. This book is immensely entertaining and I encourage anyone and everyone to pick it up and right now, if not sooner.