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Outrageous Fortune

de Tim Scott

Outros autores: Stephen Youll (Artista da capa)

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In this outrageously funny, outrageously inventive debut, one of the most outrageously talented new writers to break onto the sci-fi scene in decades asks the most loaded question of all . . .  "Don't you hate it when this happens?" . . . that's what the business card asks Jonny X67, dream architect to the rich and jaded. It's all the thieves who stole his house left behind. And if that weren't bad enough, a saleswoman named Caroline E61 drops from the sky to sell him a set of encyclopedias and won't take no for an answer. Can his luck get any worse? In this rip-roaring roller-coaster ride through a brilliantly imagined future of paranoid absurdity, Jonny X will learn the answer soon enough when he falls afoul of a lunatic motorcycle gang nicknamed the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, a relentless Belgian assassin, and his own irate girlfriend. Traversing a cityscape whose neighborhoods are organized by musical genres, running into joke-telling elevators and holographic computer viruses, Jonny is about to learn what a nightmare it's going to be to get his old life back in a reality warping faster than the speed of the imagination. Outrageous Fortune heralds a marvelous new talent sure to be delightfully altering the minds of readers for years to come.… (mais)
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I read this book a couple of years ago, I enjoyed it. The premise stayed with me. So, when I re-read the book. On second reading it was good, and I enjoyed the first 3/4 of it or so. I like the randomness, the way nothing doesn't seem to connect. Where this book went wrong is at the last 1/4 of the book. The answers are found, but seems so completely preposterous that ___ would ___ ___ to___ ____ ____ (the blanks give the whole plot away so fill it in after you read the book). ( )
  TheDivineOomba | Oct 16, 2010 |
If you like your sci-fi surreal, lavishly sprinkled with gratuitous profanity and lacking any discernible plot or character development, you may enjoy this book. As for me, the latter three of those characteristics alternately irritated and bored me, and the humour didn't appeal; I abandoned it at page 80. ( )
1 vote Eat_Read_Knit | Jan 31, 2010 |
The world building in this novel is simply kick ass. Terry Prachett better look out because Tim Scott's debut novel is funnier and more clever than any discworld book I remember reading as a youth. This is another novel I've had to share simply because it is so damn clever and funny. A great book to read if you need a quick pick me up! ( )
  Jacey25 | Oct 7, 2008 |
This book is billed as "outrageously funny". I didn't find it humorous. I did enjoy reading it though. ( )
  gregandlarry | Sep 17, 2008 |
Nice ideas, but it took too long for the plot to make sense, and the twist at the end was disappointing. ( )
  JimmyShelter | Sep 9, 2008 |
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In this outrageously funny, outrageously inventive debut, one of the most outrageously talented new writers to break onto the sci-fi scene in decades asks the most loaded question of all . . .  "Don't you hate it when this happens?" . . . that's what the business card asks Jonny X67, dream architect to the rich and jaded. It's all the thieves who stole his house left behind. And if that weren't bad enough, a saleswoman named Caroline E61 drops from the sky to sell him a set of encyclopedias and won't take no for an answer. Can his luck get any worse? In this rip-roaring roller-coaster ride through a brilliantly imagined future of paranoid absurdity, Jonny X will learn the answer soon enough when he falls afoul of a lunatic motorcycle gang nicknamed the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, a relentless Belgian assassin, and his own irate girlfriend. Traversing a cityscape whose neighborhoods are organized by musical genres, running into joke-telling elevators and holographic computer viruses, Jonny is about to learn what a nightmare it's going to be to get his old life back in a reality warping faster than the speed of the imagination. Outrageous Fortune heralds a marvelous new talent sure to be delightfully altering the minds of readers for years to come.

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