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Outstanding
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Publishers Weekly
With this taut and entertaining novel, London native Kunzru paints a satirized but unsettlingly familiar tableau.
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Outstanding
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Washington Post Michael Dirda
Utterly captivating: a deliciously satirical, humane and very enjoyable novel.
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Outstanding
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TLS: The Times Literary Supplement Sophie Ratcliffe
A brilliant example of why the screen and machine still need the novel (which is itself a sort of machine), it does what novels are meant to do. It helps us think about why and how our emotional lives are formed, and - in the way that no cultural history can - it takes its place in forming it.
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Favorable
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USA Today Edward Nawotka
It's a profound plot, as well as a wickedly entertaining treatise on the risks of our globalized digital culture. One only hopes it's a satire.
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Favorable
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The Guardian Amit Chaudhuri
[Kunzru]'s written, expertly, a successful and intelligent piece of entertainment, a more compelling read, if anything, than his first novel.
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Favorable
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The Independent Christopher Hart
There is so much to admire in this taut, dense, scintillating novel.
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Favorable
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The Independent Charles Shaar Murray
Kunzru is fast, funny and observant. His narrative surfs along on a tide of good gags, sharp bon mots and perceptive insights into contemporary technology and culture.
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Favorable
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The New York Times Janet Maslin
Good-humored even when it overheats into a conspiracy-theory finale, Transmission potently reaffirms this author's initial promise.
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Favorable
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Booklist Michael Spinella
Kunzru proves again that he is a wry and talented voice who provides a nuanced and painfully brutal perception of modern life in a global economy. [1 June 2004, p.1701]
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Favorable
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Daily Telegraph David Robson
Kunzru is an elegant and thoughtful writer, able to give his 21st-century fable a patina of 19th-century literary polish.
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Favorable
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Daily Telegraph Carol Ann Duffy
Rather like early Martin Amis, only nicer, Kunzru combines a satirical comic gift with a cool prose style. And his storytelling is well plotted and compelling.
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Favorable
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Houston Chronicle Nora Seton
As it is, the power of the storytelling overcomes a limp finish. We've been surfing a heady wave all through the book, and if the ending is a bit like getting dumped, well, the wave was dazzling and left us exhilarated and satisfied.
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Favorable
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Kirkus Reviews
Kunzru lays on the technical detail thickly, and computer geeks will perhaps best appreciate the sinuous meanderings and misdirections here. But its antic vision of an all-too-easily imperiled global village has enough charm and bite to engage us all.
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Mixed
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The New York Times Book Review Walter Kirn
Like an unsaved file on a computer, Transmission dissolves back into random electrons the moment one turns it off.
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Mixed
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The New Yorker
The insistent trendiness of the novel's preoccupations risks becoming tiresome, but Kunzru's engagingly wired prose and agile plotting sweep all before them, as the characters career toward ruin.
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