Limitless: A Novel

by Alan Glynn

Book Overview

Now a major motion picture starring Bradley Cooper, Robert DeNiro, and Abbie Cornish. Alan Glynn's Limitless is a high-concept thriller for this Adderall age, and a haunting meditation on the allure... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312428871
• ISBN13: 9780312428877
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Picador
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.8" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

Very different from my usual

I really enjoyed it, I’m a typical paranormal romance reader but I enjoy pyschological thrillers as well. And this world really encaptured me. Like the stocks and stuff can get confusing but it’s also so interesting at the same time. It took me a while to read but in a good way, funny enough it was a calm read for me.

A chilling Tale - A plausible antihero - a believable drug

Who is to say whether or not an MDT-48 does not already exist in the dusty files of some clandestine file cabinet of a multinational corporation, or in the cement bunker of the NSA? In our quest for youth we have sought the guru advice of the Gary Nulls and other health conscious gurus to ingest everything from Ester-C, CoEnzyme-Q10, and Tyrosine in an effort to preserve youth, the body and the mind in modern America. In the 1960's the MK-ULTRA project attempted to use LSD on soldiers to create the 'ultimate fighting machine' (and failed). There have been other pioneers (and quacks) to attempt to re-program the the chemical synapes of the human brain to do with it, what we want it to do! The author has done his research. I purchased this book in Ireland and have not read the Americanized English version, so I can only comment on what I have read. And this is a true spellbinding tale. Not only plausible, but probable. We all want to be Eddie Spinoza with his heighty flights of mental abilities akin to Icarus soaring to the sun, but when the effects of DMT-48 wear off, we have found the wax has melted, and we fall to earth not in a sudden drop, but agonizingly as a feather would float to earth, watching the ground grow ever closer, and realizing our demise in slow painstaking horrow. This author has twisted a tale of true mesmorizing quality - a compliment I do not throw out to any Tom, Dick or Harry [...]. Having worked in NYC myself, I could 'see' the enviroments the author was painting with his words (no doubt from personal recollections of his time there) with vivid clarity. This is a great book for the train, but not for bedtime (you wont go to sleep for fear of mising a page). The ending fooled me, and it was skillfully crafted. This is a book worthy of a screenplay, and would captivate anyone who loved the movies Pi, Memento, or Requiem for a Dream. - zen

Better than I expected.

Frankly, I thought the blurbs on this novel damned it with faint praise. Some writer said it was a good "start" for Glynn. Someone else called it "slick." I was expecting it to be kind of a silly romp. Instead, I thought the idea of this drug posed interesting questions. So what if it kills you. Life is terminal. I want some! I had no fault to find with the writing style. It was fast and transparent. That is a lot more difficult to achieve than many realize. This is a very good thriller.

Enthralling

A fantastic exploration of the desire to be more, be better, be everything to everyone... the seduction of intellectual, social and financial POWER. Glynn has a great one here - looking for more.

Wow...

I began reading it that day, and read through it all in two. Definitely a page turner, with an amazing message. I could completely empathize with Eddie (The main character) and could understand all of his actions, definitely an author I'll be keeping an eye on.

Gripping and chilling

Wow! What a debut novel. I'm not normally a fan of thrillers but this one had me hooked from the very first page. You can literally feel yourself being sucked into the unreal world of Eddie, as the allure of the drug takes control of his life.Quite apart from the sheer pace of the novel, there is a very serious subtext to this finely written book. Roll on Glynn's next offering.