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Title: Silver: A Novel by Matthew Remski ISBN: 1-895837-23-5 Publisher: Insomniac Press Pub. Date: September, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.99

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Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (2 reviews)

Rating: 3
Summary: Not bad, but not great, either.
Comment: In this book Matther Remski makes the error of referring frequently and explicitly to Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow. Rather than achieving greater deapth through intertextuality, this merely highlights Silver's shortcomings when compared to that monumental work.

There are several wonderful sections in Silver, particularly one about the genesis of McDonald's, but these are interspersed with boring ore meaningless asides, jeuvenile sexual imagery, and hopelessly disjointed narrative. Sound like Gravity's Rainbow? Well, the formula is the same. The difference is that Pynchon pulled it off masterfully, and Remski gets lost in the formlessness of it all.

Rating: 4
Summary: Inventive and entertaining!
Comment: Great scope, dark sarcasm, amusing conspiracy theories, hollywood babylon, decadence, the end of the line... what more can you ask of a post-angst, pre-millenial text-block?