The End of Mr Y by Scarlett Thomas
I did not fancy reading Almost Moon, so Seeing as I enjoyed it so much last time I have decided to re-read The End of Mr Y instead. I thought it was a rather entertaining novel by Scarlett Thomas
It concerns A young woman named Ariel Manto – a well read young journalist and polymath scholar, whose chief interest is in 19th-century thought experiments, who visits a second hand bookstore, and chances upon a rare antique novel entitled “The End of Mr Y”.
Ariel finds out that the novel is supposedly cursed and that her thesis adviser Mr Burlem happened to be reading it when he mysteriously vanished.So naturally she reads it too.
Ariel finds that The deeper she gets into the story, the more convinced she is that the author could enter a dimension called the Troposphere, a realm made of human consciousness. where you can meet gods or hitchhike on people’s thoughts in order to travel through space and time, and From there on, things get entertainingly, mind-bendingly weird…
