The Second Apocalypse
Miscellaneous Chatter => Literature => Topic started by: What Came Before on May 14, 2013, 09:37:54 pm
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I will pimp this book 'til I die.
Find it, read it and inject some meaning into your colourless lives.
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This is a shallow attempt at pimping. Sure maybe a passing interest, but show us some skin if you really want to sell it. Dare I ask, what is it?
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Hmm, difficult to describe. The author claims he is a synthete and experiences the writing process as being like chewing gum...
It's very funny - a melding of fantasy, sci-fi and noir, depicting a near future post modern punk world where crime has been elevated to an art-form. The protagonist (Dante Cubit) is the enfant terrible of this art crime wave in Beerlight and the novel is the story of his masterwork.
The prose is a succinct, punchy series of one liners. For example (I'm going from memory here ), Dante's girlfriend is introduced and beautifully characterized by noting that she had 'lost a finger in a mood-ring explosion'...
Publisher synopsis:
Full of sass and sarcasm, ultra-cool Dante Cubit and his pill-popping sidekick, the Entropy Kid, waltz into First National with some serious attitude and a couple of snub guns. Within minutes, another (timetraveling) Dante appears - inside the bank vault - and the heist is on. But something's not right. Is it all just a virtual reality prank of Dante's hacker pal, Download Jones? Have Dante and the Kid really heisted the bank? What follows is a tangle of reality and virtual reality. Adding to the fireworks is the very real hitman Brute Parker, hot on the trail and out to exterminate Dante - or is it Dante Two - his rival for the love of the captivating assassin Rosa Control.
Its also nice and short.
It's available cheap on amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Slaughtermatic-ebook/dp/B006O4V7Q2/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top/185-0434916-0885469) - check (http://www.amazon.com/Slaughtermatic-ebook/product-reviews/B006O4V7Q2) it out :)
kindle too! only $6.50!! (http://www.amazon.com/Slaughtermatic-ebook/dp/B006O4V7Q2/ref=tmm_kin_title_popover)
more quotes from goodreads
http://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/535285-slaughtermatic (http://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/535285-slaughtermatic)
Pimpin enough yet?
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I need to check the topics I post in more often.
lmao mood ring explosion
And, yes, I'd say officially pimped if I was any sort of judge in the matter.
The to read list grows.