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Title: Cards of Identity (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) by Nigel Dennis, Adam Mars-Jones ISBN: 0-14-118121-4 Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Pub. Date: 03 June, 1999 Format: Paperback

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Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (6 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Couldn't put it down.
Comment: I don't know how I originally came across Card of Identity about 15 years ago, but I couldn't put it down and have read it three times. It's an enchanting novel and I'd hate for anyone to pass it by based on the rather incomprehensible reviews I've read of it on this site.

Rating: 1
Summary: Ignore This Novel -- Read Something Imbued with Sensitivity
Comment: Cardboard characters, creepy cutouts--didn't believe a word by this facile film critic. Born Again a Holy Cow--ought to be illegal suggesting a sinister application. Identity not trowelled up like leeks. Take exception, award a sprig of spring onion found caught in laces of boot, press it in pages, ward off wards and weak wights.

Spirit informs like a gold glow, never interchangeable like multi-colored lights on a string. Seditious suggestion. Networks must be informed. Anchors enlisted. Nudes draped.

Rating: 5
Summary: Strongest Possible in Genre
Comment: Waugh, Burgess but best also "Cards." Late Burgess left this out of his 100 list, and I had not yet read it when I discussed sustained narrative antic novels with him. This puzzles me. (I argued for Gravity, he plumped for V. Later in 100, he'd changed to Gravity. Egoist that I am, guess what I think. And, also, now I like V. Did he age well tho?)

Pungent, perhaps profound. Some peerless moments of exquisite conundrum. Disciplined prose, strongly flavored character motion, level evocation of REM unreality.

Inspiring. Worth writing tart poetry on its flyleaf. Don't not read now!