His essays at have been read by tens of millions of people around the world. A novel, the second book in the zoey ashe series, arrives in october of 2020. David wong get ready for a world in which anyone can have the powers of a god or the fame of a pop star, in which human achievement soars to new heights while its depravity plunges to the blackest depths. Futuristic violence and fancy suits book, 2015 worldcat. Its a rowdy, rollicking geekfest that starts out as fast as a roller coaster and picks up speed with each chapter. An allseeing social network that tracks your every move. Futuristic violence and fancy suits book by david wong. All american boys coauthors jason reynolds and brendan kiely on writing together duration. Imagine a cyberpunk superhero movie written by simon pegg and directed by michael bay, in book form. This is the world in which zoey ashe finds herself, navigating a futuristic city in which one can find elements of the fantastic, nightmarish and ridiculous on any street corner. Futuristic violence and fancy suits book depository. Some of the scifi elements are comic booky and the humor is as juvenile as ever. Buy futuristic violence and fancy suits by wong, david isbn.
These superhero tv shows are definitely worth the binge. Watch a vidoe of david wong as he discusses his new book futuristic violence and fancy suits. Futuristic violence and fancy suits quotes by david wong. The guest bedroom suite they set zoey up in had its own bathroom, media room, and minibar. The sequel to futuristic violence and fancy suits, working title zoey punches the future in the dick, now exists as a 95,000 word draft in which i still have to write the denouement, the bit after the climax spoiler. Nine my name is andre knox, and im alone and unarmed, he said, politely but with some urgency.
Futuristic violence and fancy suits david wong macmillan. Its the story of zoey ashe, a listless twentysomething from smalltown colorado whos thrust into a crazy adventure involving psychotic killers, burrito drones, and scarily powerful vigilantes with ties to her enigmatic dead father. See more of futuristic violence and fancy suits on facebook. Fancy suits is a very stylized book which reads like a very stylized movie. Marvel movies rule the theaters and caped heroes are popping up. Granted, including futuristic violence and fancy suits, his canon numbers three. Futuristic violence and fancy suits david wong page 6. Like a room of funhouse mirrors, futuristic violence and fancy suits amplifies and distorts familiar realities in grotesquely unsettling, dizzyingly funny ways. May 21, 2016 futuristic violence and fancy suits is the winner of the 2016 alex awards. Futuristic violence and fancy suits by david wong is a blast of a read. Then came the sequel, this book is full of spiders. Futuristic violence and fancy suits read online free books. Standing there, blocking the view of everything beyond, was an enormous bald, black man in a suit that was an expanse of dark pinstripes around a white shirt and a bright purple tie.
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That novel was fun and funny and mixed and matched postmodern and horror and comedic genres in a really great way that felt fresh and new to me. Jason pargin born january 10, 1975, known by his pen name david wong, is an american humor writer. So yeah, you should definitely go pick up futuristic violence and fancy suits as soon as you can. In a prosperous yet gruesomely violent near future, superhero vigilantes battle thugs whose heads are full of supervillain fantasies. He is the former executive editor of humor website, a recurring guest in the cracked podcast, and has written four novels. The blink network encompassed some 120 million cameras in the united states alone. Stench machine is a literal moniker due to the felines constant stink. Now, here we are with his eagerly anticipated futuristic violence and fancy suits. Its always interesting to examine their plans as they make them and figure out each persons motives since unlike the other series, futuristic violence and fancy suits is told strictly from the perspective of our main character zoey.
That i will have to do during some vacation days i t. This is a much more accessible read than the book just mentioned, it is straight forward and much more mainstream. Im not new to david wongs sense of humor or knack for the strange storytelling, but this book caught me by. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Futuristic violence and fancy suits audiobook by david. She had seen him beforehe was part of the entourage of fancy suits who had showed up at the train station with will blackwater. Reviews praise for futuristic violence and fancy suits. Set in the near future, futuristic violence and fancy suits.
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Futuristic violence and fancy suits tells the story of zoey, a young 22 year old girl who gets thrown into a whirlwind of a mess when her extremely wealthy and eccentric father passes away and leaves her, his only daughter, everything he once owned. Oct 06, 2015 futuristic violence and fancy suits is the story of zoey ashe, a barista, trailer park denizen, and all around slacker who really has no one in her life other than her stripper mom and cat named stench machine. Where the audiobook falls down is in the narration. David wong jason pargin is a fantastic author with a supernatural talent for humor. That is, i would never have imagined a story where the phrase stench machine appears hundreds of times would have such a. Futuristic violence and fancy suits posts facebook. Zoeys estranged father, an insanely wealthy crime lordbusiness man named arthur.
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