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| Original Title: | Random Acts of Senseless Violence |
| ISBN: | 0802134246 (ISBN13: 9780802134240) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Dryco |
Jack Womack
Paperback | Pages: 256 pages Rating: 3.95 | 2176 Users | 302 Reviews
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| Title | : | Random Acts of Senseless Violence (Dryco) |
| Author | : | Jack Womack |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 256 pages |
| Published | : | September 1st 1995 by Grove Press (first published 1993) |
| Categories | : | Science Fiction. Fiction. Dystopia. Cyberpunk. Speculative Fiction. Apocalyptic. Post Apocalyptic. Novels |
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With his vivid, stylized prose, cyberpunk intensity, and seemingly limitless imagination, Jack Womack has been compared to both William Gibson and Kurt Vonnegut - though Gibson admits, "If you dropped the characters from Neuromancer into Womack's Manhattan, they'd fall down screaming and have nervous breakdowns". Random Acts of Senseless Violence, Womack's fifth novel, is a thrilling, hysterical, and eerily disturbing piece ot work. Lola Hart is an ordinary twelve-year-old girl. She comes from a comfortable family, attends an exclusive private school, loves her friends Lori and Katherine, teases her sister Boob. But in the increasingly troubled city where she lives (a near-future Manhattan) she is a dying breed. Riots, fire, TB outbreaks, roaming gangs, increasing inflation, political and civil unrest all threaten her way of life, as well as the very fabric of New York City. In her diary, Lola chronicles the changes she and her family make as they attempt to adjust to a city, and a country, that is spinning out of control. Her mother is a teacher, but no one is hiring. Her father is a writer, but no one is buying his scripts. Hounded by creditors and forced to vacate their apartment and move to Harlem, her family, and her life, begins to dissolve. Increasingly estranged from her privileged school friends, Lola soon makes new ones: Iz, Jude, and Weezie - wise veterans of the street who know what must be done in order to survive and are more than willing to do it. And the metamorphosis of Lola Hart, who is surrounded by the new language and violence of the streets, begins. Simultaneously chilling and darkly hilarious, Random Acts of Senseless Violence takes the jittery urban fears we suppress, both in fiction and in daily life, and makes them explicit - and explicitly terrifying. --Publisher/Powells.comRating About Books Random Acts of Senseless Violence (Dryco)
Ratings: 3.95 From 2176 Users | 302 ReviewsAppraise About Books Random Acts of Senseless Violence (Dryco)
This novel should be compusory reading in every school. Maybe I am biased. Maybe it's because I can remember New York City in 1993 and the vibe in the air back then that this was indeed the beginning of the end.Although the book is set decades into the future, Womack could not have anticipated how fast events would occur nor how the apocalyptic urban chaos he describes would be outdone by reality - within eight years. Still, it's prescient, no doubt, and the teenage Lola, as the antitheticalThis book should be as famous as A Clockwork Orange - like that one it has its own language and pictures a near future urban nightmare featuring gangs of feral children.But it isn't. Perhaps the problem is the title, which is, when you look at it objectively, completely crap. Perhaps the problem is that when people see that it's about a near future urban nightmare featuring gangs of feral children they think huh, I already read one like that.Doesn't stop them reading umpteen books about vampires
This is a darkly disturbing Dystopian novel set in in a world where the world economy has almost completely collapsed and the day to day lives of people is harsh and soul-breaking. Written as a series of diary entries from the point of view of a young teenage girl. A curious main character to be sure considering her position and place in the world, which happens to be New York, and makes for a challenging read at times.
Five stars=It was amazing. It was, but not in the sense that Vanity Fair or Paradise Lost or even Harry Potter is. I have no idea where this book came from. I mean both from the author and from wherever to land on my NOOK. Something must have clicked in the promo that urged me to download it. Frankly, it was a little heavier than I would've liked considering a lot of recent books I've been reading. The construction of this novel is utterly fascinating. Circular in some ways, in others a straight
So tough to rate.1) Exquisite writing. Mind-blowingly marvelous. The shifting voice of the MC is compelling and utterly believable.I've penned myself dry with all I writ. You give ear when everybody deafs and lend me shoulder constant if tears need dropping.2)The book kept me up ALL NIGHT. I was unable to stop reading because I had to find out about Iz and Boob and Lola.3) At the same time, I hated the plot. I'm not saying it was a bad plot. It was gripping and perfectly structured. It's no mean
This is perhaps Jack Womack's unsung masterpiece. Published originally in 1993, this book of America in dystopic breakdown is as sharp and alive today as it was then. Told entirely through the diary entries of a sixth grader who watches her world transform as her own voice transforms within it, the book is a wonder. How in the world did it slip off the radar? I cannot do it justice in a review, save to say, this is something every sf reader from YA up should seek out and read. If you're a reader
Well, in the areas of "dark apocalypse fiction" this one takes the cake. I'm reading a lot of dark books starring children lately, come to think about it.This is like a book version of the Telltale Walking Dead game starring Clem. I don't have any better description, actually. It's super dark. Breakdown of society. Diary entries of a kid. Lord of the Flies-ish. Between this and Station Eleven I need to read a bunch of romance fluff for a while, haha.
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