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Katja From The Punk Band (2010)

by Simon Logan(Favorite Author)

3.72 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0981297870 (ISBN13: 9780981297873)

languge

English

genre

Science Fiction

publisher

Chizine Publications

review 1: Located on a nameless, drug-infested Eastern Bloc island, this grotesque comedy of errors centers on a chemical vial, and the people who fight to get their hands on it. Word has come down through the grapevine that whoever manages to smuggle themselves onto the mainland and deliver the vial to a mysterious man in red will win their ticket out of poverty. Characters include a misfit punk guitarist, a junkie, a couple of drug lords (one of whom is an S&M performance artist), and a battered wife and her lover who are fleeing her abusive husband. A fast-paced, plot-driven tale from the start, it makes the mistake of relaying multiple character POVs in overlapping layers, so some of the dialogue and action are unnecessarily repeated. Although the characters aren’t psychologic... moreally deep, they are quirky and bizarre enough to hold your attention nonetheless. If director Takashi Miike remade It’s A Mad Mad Mad Mad World, it might look something like this.
review 2: This was a good book. It was short, quick and entertaining. I don't know how memorable it will be. The characters are decent and I even cared about a couple of them. The plot has lots of twists in it and the only complaint I have is that there was too much re-narration of key scenes from the point of view of 3 or 4 different characters, without a lot of unique touches to each point of view. All in all, it surprised me for something random I picked up at the library. less

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