Random acts of senseless violence
by Jack Womack · first published 1993
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2010–2024first – last mentioned
67% recommend33% critical
With his vivid, stylized prose, cyberpunk intensity, and seemingly limitless imagination, Jack Womack has been compared to both William Gibson and Kurt Vonnegut - though Gibson admits, "If you dropped the characters from Neuromancer into Womack's Manhattan, they'd fall down screaming and have nervous breakdowns". Random Acts of Senseless Violence, Womack's fifth novel, is a thrilling, hysterical, and eerily disturbing piece ot work. Lola Hart is an ordinary twelve-year-old girl. She comes from a comfortable family, attends an exclusive private school, loves her friends Lori and Katherine,
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Try a book called "Random Acts of Senseless Violence" by Jack Womack. The text doesn't morph into gibberish, but the lead character transforms from entitled middle class to borderline psychopath street kid, and the way the language changes as the story…
on “Stackoverflow, HTML by Regex, topmost answer” ↗Random Acts of Senseless Violence - Jack Womack. See https://reactormag.com/randomacts/ for a great review by Jo Walton (also a great scifi author who deserves more attention).
on “Sci-fi books that you may never have heard of, but definitely should read” ↗…rereading) which I hadn't previously read. All of the previously unread ones I've now finally read are good, a couple great, ditto the ones previously read. One was enough of a downer that I didn't finish it (Random Acts of Senseless Violence). Definitely recommended if you enjoy science fiction and/or fantasy.
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