BrianLindenmuth's Blog – September 2007 Archive (3)

African Psycho by Alain Mabanckou - review

African Psycho is the first English translation by Alain Mabanckou. Its a first person account of Gregoire Nakobomayo, would be killer, that takes as its inspiration Brett Easton Ellison’s novel American Psycho. Where as the protagonist from Ellison’s

novel is a success at his chosen vocation its interesting to note that

Nakobomayo is ultimately a failure. It’s this fundamental inability to

successfully commit any crime that makes him…

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Added by BrianLindenmuth on September 28, 2007 at 11:34pm — 2 Comments

Ammunition by Ken Bruen

Quick Take

A brilliant addition, and maybe completion, to the series.

I think that it’s safe to…

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Added by BrianLindenmuth on September 25, 2007 at 4:33am — No Comments

Bad Monkeys by Matt Ruff - review

Quick Take:

Bad Monkeys displays for us not only its, at times, dark humor but the patchwork juxtapositioning of odd and imaginative ideas that is Matt Ruff’s

trademark.

With a gun that kills people using natural causes, a secret organization that spies on people via the eyes on pictures called The Panopticon, axe-wielding clowns in Vegas and great chapter…

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Added by BrianLindenmuth on September 18, 2007 at 1:24am — No Comments