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Gun Machine (2013)

by Warren Ellis(Favorite Author)

3.84 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0316187404 (ISBN13: 9780316187404)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Mulholland Books

review 1: Okay, this is a good book. Not a great book but a good book, better than average. This book has a plot as straight as a West Texas highway, lovely dark humor, and well, a few plot holes. This is a police procedural with the spice being in the crime scene unit techs - they are refreshing takes on nerdy obsession and passive aggressive behavior. They are what keeps this from being just another police procedural set on the dirty mean streets of Manhattan. It sure wasn't the ending because Mr. Ellis gave that away very early in the book, so obviously that it had to be intentional so that I as reader concentrated on his characters, their interactions, and how things got solved. So, yes I recommend it as a quick enjoyable read.
review 2: Start to finish, hard to put ... moredown. This may be an obvious statement, but it's Warren Ellis through and through. Smart, dark, funny and frightening (usually all at the same time). Probably the most brilliant part of this book to me was how Ellis turned horrifying situations into white noise. If that was intended to be social commentary on how inured we are with daily terrors, it worked. And if not, well it still worked. My only real complaint is that I wanted the antagonist to be more than he turned out to be. Which, now that I think about it, may not be a good reflection on my own psyche. less

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