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Loading... Set This House in Order: A Romance of Soulsby Matt Ruff
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Liberuno | Mar 11, 2009 |   The plot and resolution don't quite live up to the idea and characterisation. Nevertheless, very enjoyable read, and I'd like to do some further reading on MPD now. (  )elmyra | Nov 11, 2008 | Ruff's brilliant plot twists and cast of dozens of souls make me want more Ruff! librarianlk | Oct 27, 2008 | The author shifts among the narrator's various personalities in a masterful and inventive way that builds suspense. I don't feel that the ending lives up to the rest of the story, however. It seems to bog down a bit at the end and seems to be rushed to a conclusion. I still give it 4 stars for the unique expression of the interior voices of multiple personalities living in one mind, and the overall excellent story telling. ( )chersbookitlist | Aug 10, 2008 | Set This House In Order is an awesome book! When I get hold of fiction that puts me in the head of someone with a mental illness I am thrilled if it’s done well. Set This House In Order is done very well. I can’t vouch for the accuracy that Ruff portrays multiple personality disorder. But how he imagines this works from a first person perspective still provides a coherent sense of how it could present to someone with M.P.D. A way that is nothing like how I think. I now have an opportunity to perceive somewhat differently. (Full review at my blog) ( )KingRat | Jul 22, 2008 | 0.039 seconds to build listing  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 006095485X, Paperback)Andy Gage was born in 1965 and murdered not long after by his stepfather. . . . It was no ordinary murder. Though the torture and abuse that killed him were real, Andy Gage's death wasn't. Only his soul actually died, and when it died, it broke in pieces. Then the pieces became souls in their own right, coinheritors of Andy Gage's life. . . . While Andy deals with the outside world, more than a hundred other souls share an imaginary house inside Andy's head, struggling to maintain an orderly coexistence: Aaron, the father figure; Adam, the mischievous teenager; Jake, the frightened little boy; Aunt Sam, the artist; Seferis, the defender; and Gideon, who wants to get rid of Andy and the others and run things on his own. Andy's new coworker, Penny Driver, is also a multiple personality, a fact that Penny is only partially aware of. When several of Penny's other souls ask Andy for help, Andy reluctantly agrees, setting in motion a chain of events that threatens to destroy the stability of the house. Now Andy and Penny must work together to uncover a terrible secret that Andy has been keeping . . . from himself. (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:15 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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The only thing that I didn't really enjoy was the ending. I found that it seemed that it had been thrown together quickly as a means to tie up lose ends with a few pages at the end of the book.
If you have read any other Matt Ruf] books and enjoyed them I would not hesitate to recommend this one. The witty style that he brings to his works is present here as well and helps to lend a realistic voice to the souls in the household. (