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I am looking for Set this House in Order. It sounds terrific! Thanks for the recommendation. I enjoyed both Set This House in Order and Bad Monkeys, so I'll have to look for Sewer, Gas, and Electric too. I haven't read Sewer, Gas, and Electric: yet but looking at reviews Set This House in Order is a bit more serious in tone. I know it was completely different from the highly entertaining Bad Monkeys, which I also recommend. He isn't very prolific is he! I've got Set This House in Order coming up some time in the near future. I hope. I got a kick from Sewer, Gas, and Electric: The Public Works Trilogy when I read it many moons ago. Set This House In Order by Matt Ruff
"I suppose I should tell you about the house.... The house, along with the lake, the forest, and Coventry, are all in Andy Gage's head, or what would have been Andy Gage's head if he had lived. Andy Gage was born in 1965 and murdered not long ... Thanks. I am very surprised to 100, I think LT encourages me to read more :)
102. Set This House in Order by Matt Ruff
Inventive, gripping thriller
(4.5 out 5)
"I suppose I should tell you about the house.... The house, along with the lake, the forest, and Coventry, are all in ... ... selections from my (huge) to-read stack:
The Night Listener, by Armistead Maupin
The Savage Garden, by Mark Mills
Set This House in Order, by Matt Ruff
The Night Watch, by Sarah Waters
... 13: Wilt by Brian Azzarello (author) and Eduardo Risso (artist)
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Z 104: Well, not quite the last page, but the I loved Set This House In Order by Matt Ruff until the last few chapters or so when it just became painfully ordinary and dull. Such a pity. I loved Bad Monkeys and I have Set This House In Order in my TBR. I have high hopes for that although I have heard it said it is in a different style. Have you read Set This House in Order by Ruff? I liked Bad Monkeys by I liked Set This House in Order better. ... illness By Will Elliot
104. House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
103. Kushiels Mercy by Jacqueline Carey
102. Set this House in Order by Matt Ruff
101. The Paradoxes of Mr Pond by G K Chesterton
100. Red Skies Under Red Seas by Scott Lynch
99. The Naming of the Beasts: A Fel ... ... novel: "Sewer, Gas and Electric" but bogged down pretty early on and haven't gone back to it. I missed his third novel "Set This House in Order" through inattention.
So, when I saw "Bad Monkeys" sitting on the shelf at a small bookstore in Edmonds, Washington on our recent two week ... ... Eco
9. Going to pieces without falling apart: a Buddhist perspective on wholeness / Mark Epstein M.D.
10. Set this house in order : a romance of souls / Matt Ruff
11. The power book / Jeanette Winterson
12. Shadow of the giant / Orson Scott Card
13. Partners ... >106 amandameale - Can I ask why you didn't like Set This House in Order? There were some things I thought were not handled as well as they could have been, but it was by far closer to the top than the bottom of my list for 2006. ... you Meet in Heaven by Mitch Ablom
The Steep Approach to Garbadale by Iain Banks
Burning Bright by Tracey Chevalier
Set This House in Order by Matt Ruff I've just abandoned Set This House in Order by Matt Ruff - not my thing. Now reading Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels. >58 So, Amanda, it's not a big stretch to go from the insane asylum to Set This House in Order then, is it? Btw, I noticed in the bookstore today that Matt Ruff has a new novel out called Bad Monkeys. I was curious as he is a clever writer but didn't want to buy it on a whim without checking ... ... nd)**
36. Old Filth by Jane Gardam**
37. The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell (Scotland)*
38. Set This House in Order by Matt Ruff (USA) YUK!
39. Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels (Canada)**
40. Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively** Loved this I just finished Matt Ruff's Set This House in Order, which involves some interest gender content. I highly recommend it -- totally unique, and this guy is really good at characterization.
I haven't quite decided what to read next. I've been browsing Many Children Left Behind: How the No ... Just knowing that Set This House In Order: A Romance Of Souls had won the Tiptree was a major plot spoiler:^) newer stuff that might be of interest
Drop City by T.C. Boyle
Set this House in Order by Matt Ruff
Observatory Mansions by Edward Carey
Classic psychology
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Gilman ... Mansions, which I have not read yet. From the description, however, it sounds like it would appeal to someone who enjoyed Set This House in Order I have just finished reading Set this house in order by Matt Ruff and I was wondering if there were any more good fictional books set around mental illnesses? This particular book by Ruff is based on Multiple Personality Disorder but I'd be interested in any fictional book based on any ...
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