Going, Going, Gone
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| Rating | : | 4.51 (615 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 080211685X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 192 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-06-13 |
| Language | : | English |
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The end of the Dryco Chronicles. And so I found myself holding this book in my hands, this book I've been waiting for three years to read, not wanting to start it because I knew it was the last time I'd be entering this amazing universe that Jack Womack spins out of thin air.Yes, I know, I'm a geek. Onwards.The book. "and it all comes together" according to A Customer. Sort ofWomack's style is so unique, I might suggest re-reading each book upon completion. His "vernacular" is so compelling, I actually find myself emulating it in e-mails to my friends (and perhaps his prophetic truncated style of speaking is an extrapolation of "e-mail-speak"). Thi. Michael Scott said Psychedelic Fun. I never would have thought that I would enjoy a book that contains abundant drug use to the degree that I enjoyed Jack Womack's newest novel. _Going, Going, Gone_ is a witty and psychedelic alternate history/time travel/parallel universe/ghost story all-in-one. The narrative flows ea
Walter Bullitt is a freelancer for the U.S. While he's enjoying a Velvet Underground show at Max's Kansas City, two outre femmes fatales frogmarch him out, straight into a mission to save the world, both his own and the alternate one they've arrived from.. Then a pair of ghosts start turning up in his apartment, begging him to provide some kind of help. government, testing new psychotropics on himself and groups of unsuspecting citizens, and generally "fixing" things. Now he delivers the sixth and final book in the series, a breathless and brilliantly imagined story that is a cautionary tale of contemporary society. His conscience has never impeded his work, until he's asked to get involved in a murderous plot to sabotage Bobby Kennedy's presidential campaign. Jack Womack's Ambient novels have been acclaimed as a "feat of brilliancespeculative fiction at its eerie best" by Entertainment Weekly
Drifting through this alternate universe is Walter Bullitt, a drug experimenter who talks like a beatnik crossed with John Shaft: "I cooled on my slab till roostertime" translates roughly as "I slept until dawn." Bullitt takes on occasional blackbag operations for the government dosing unsuspecting citizens with drugs in order to observe the results but has second thoughts when he's asked to prevent the upstart Robert Kennedy from running in the presidential election. Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc. . (Mar.) Forecast: This final, top-notch Ambient installment has the potential to generate considerable crossover appeal while satisfying old fans. As he's mulling over the Kennedy job, things begin to get weird: he sees ghosts, he's invited to join a cult, and a bizarre pair of women hijack him for unknown purposes. Although his hero's vernacular may annoy some readers, Womack has crafted a fast-moving, hipper-than-hip science fiction novel meshing the exuberant wordplay