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A New York Times Notable Book
From the author of Tenth of December...
"This book is a rare event: a brilliant new satirist bursting out of the gate in full stride, wildly funny, pure, generous—all that a great humorist should be."
—Garrison Keillor
"An astoundingly tuned voice—graceful, dark, authentic, and funny—telling just the kinds of stories we need to get us through these times."
—Thomas Pynchon
"Scary, hilarious, and unforgettable . . . George Saunders is a writer of arresting brilliance and originality."
—Tobias Wolff
"A cool satirist and a wicked stylist. The quirkiest and most accomplished short-story debut since Barry Hannah's Airships."
—Jay McInerney, The New York Times Book Review
"Ingenious . . . full of savage humor and originality [and] scorching brilliance . . . the author creates a nightmarish post-apocalyptic world that might have been envisioned by Walt Disney on acid."
—The Philadelphia Inquirer
"The debut of an exciting new voice in fiction. Mr. Saunders writes like the illegitimate offspring of [Nathaniel] West and Kurt Vonnegut, perhaps a distant relative of Mark Leyner and Steven Wright. He's a savage satirist with a sentimental streak who delineates, in these pages, the dark underbelly of the American dream: the losses, delusions, and terrors suffered by the lonely, the disenfranchised, the downtrodden and the plain unlucky. . . . Bizarre events pop up regularly in CivilWarLand like road signs on a highway, directing the reader toward the dark heart of Mr. Saunders's America. What powers the stories along is Mr. Saunders's wonderfully demented language, his ear for absurdity and slang, his own patented blend of psychobabble, techno-talk and existential angst. Mr. Saunders's satiric vision of America is dark and demented; it is also ferocious and very funny."
—The New York Times
Anonymous
Posted January 5, 2013
EXTRAS~~~Accents: Rawbones: American. Bombkill: Heavy Russian Accent. Doctor: German accent when angry. VEHICLES: Rawbones: Cybertronian Motorcycle, a carbon copy of a Harley Davidson Chopper model, though slightly bulkier and 'Cybertronized.' Barrier: monster truck Cybertronized. The Doctor: something like that, tough, obviously bigger. Bombkill is Ratchet's alt mode though completely red. NOTES: this is set in the 'TFPRIME' reality, some time before the War for Cybertron. (At least 3 decades before, if not thousands of years before). Just one thing: Masterspark's appearance is quite similiar to the Transformers original looks, (before they copycat earty vehicles) in the movies (something like that), though he is more 'skinny' and taller. THIS IS ORIGINALLY WRITTEN BY OVERLORD BALDER.******************************(goto next result for Chapter 1)
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This book is a great read for anyone. I enjoyed it to the fullest. It is almost as good as his second book. Amazing read!!
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This is the boss dudes! Some guy told me that this book is the bossenest book around. Read it and you to can be totally bossinated you boss dudes!
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A New York Times Notable Book
From the author of Tenth of December...
"This book is a rare event: a brilliant new satirist bursting out of the gate in full stride, wildly funny, pure, generous—all that a great humorist should be."
—Garrison Keillor
"An astoundingly tuned voice—graceful, dark, authentic, and funny—telling just the kinds of stories we need to get us through ...