Hardcover, 352 pages
English language
Published July 22, 2008 by Viking Adult.
Welcome to Chromatacia, where for as long as anyone can remember society has been ruled by a Colortocracy. Social hierachy is based upon one's limited color perception. society is dominated by color. In this world, you are what you can see, and Eddie Russett, a better-than-average red perception wants to move up.
I had so many questions (sparked from the first chapter... you'll know) and I didn't get answers until the last few chapters. The first 80% of the novel read like a long set-up, but a witty, funny, interesting one. I liked the first 80% but the excitement got real in the last 20%, and I listened to the last three hours of the audiobook at once instead of sleeping.
Das Beste was ich seit Langem gelesen habe. Wie schon bei den Thursday-Next-Büchern erweist sich Jasper Fforde als wahrer Meister im Bauen von kuriosen Welten.
Fforde has a fine ear for turning dialogue into giddy flights of lunacy, sometimes recalling Monty Python routines at their most absurd. This may sometimes occur at a cost to plot, but Fforde is a fine fantasist, and his flights of surreal wit only serve to heighten the monstrous amounts of pleasure he ladles out for the reader.
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