A Chapter by Chapter Reading ExperienceOne: Hmm. Not into serial killer chasing inept 20 year-old woman, even/esp. set up as 'humor.'Two: Okay, made me laugh with the spatula joke.Three: I don't believe a woman who would own a Persian cat would call him 'Stench Machine.'Five, six, and eight: The description of the 'Blink' nails social media as a 'reality experience.' Very lightly veiled social commentary but sadly on point.So far: The protagonist is incompetent.Ten: And dumb.Twelve: Seriously.Th...

This one didn’t really do it for me. The writing wasn’t great, the characters were inconsistent, the story meandored all over the place, and there were some pretty glaring plot holes that I couldn’t ignore. It was fun, and occasionally hilarious with literal laugh-out-loud moments. I thought the Blink social network was startlingly plausible, and probably about two seconds into our future. I also loved the way that everyone in Tabula Ra$a saw themselves as heroes, but they were really just assho...

The near-future equivalent of UF Science Fiction. What? Well, yeah! It has tons and tons of snark, absolutely fantastic pacing, action, action, action, humor, blood and guts, and tons and tons of shiny tech toys that are not only not in the hands of Government Officials or Spies, but there are NO Government Officials OR Spies in the novel! This is all trailer trash and thug territory, my friend.Of course, we're taking the trailer trash out of trailer trash territory and giving her a bazillion do...

Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits delivers on both of its promises (namely futuristic violence, of which there was a boat load, and fancy suits, which were quite fancy), but it does so much more than that. It subtly explores the themes of violence against women within the frame work of masculinity, the dehumanizing affects of massive wealth on those who possess it, and the impact of just-around-the-corner-technology. Stylistically it does a wonderful job flirting with the super hero genre just...

This review pains me a fair amount. The words I have to write about this book are not the ones I wish they were.Let me begin by stating that I'm a huge fan of David Wong and I wanted to love this book.The new setting and characters he's created for FUTURISTIC VIOLENCE & FANCY SUITS (FV&FS) seem like they could be a lot of fun, so I was ready to follow him on his first novel-length fictional outing sans John and Dave.That being said, there are signs throughout the book that point to this endeavor...

Full disclosure. I am eating two perfectly grilled cheese sandwiches with smoked paprika turkey on them as I write this review.Yes. There is dipping sauce.That said...THIS BOOK WAS THE SHIT! I've never read anything by David Wong before. Apparently, he's the dude that wrote the book that the mediocre movie was based off, John Dies At The End. I'm being a little harsh here, I know I have seen John Dies At The End, but I can't really remember it. It could actually be a better movie than what I thi...

Fun, fun, futuristic violence, fancy suits, and more fun!Fans of William Gibson, Neal Stephenson and Daniel Suarez will like this fast moving, action packed sidewinder of a futuristic good time.I read David Wong’s also very cool John Dies at the End and liked it, but this took his snarky brand of speculative fiction to the next level.Zoey Ashe’s estranged father is dead and she learns that he was worth gazillions and now she is – that is if she can stay alive. In a world infested with ubiquitous...

Took me most of the book to admit how aggressively I disliked it. I kept trying to enjoy it because I loved the author's other 2 books. But this is the most hatefully misogynistic book featuring a female protagonist that I have ever mostly read, and lacks the light-hearted gonzo humor of his previous work. Ick.

This book was seriously a TRIP. It was a wild ride that was seriously fun (and funny!). What made this book fascinating to me was it's scathing critique of what I'll generalize as "violent male internet culture." I'm NOT talking about all dudes on the internet, by any means, but rather the subset of guys on the internet who think it's fine to make rape threats, murder threats, encourage suicide, dox people, etc., and then the second they get called on it come back with, "Can't you take a joke, s...

Guess what time it is???? It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Time for the library’s Winter Reading Challenge. And this year’s theme????? Oh mommy likey. I have been participating in these challenges for going on a decade now and let me tell you the struggle has been real on some of the themes. But I am a sucker for free swag so I muddled through. Chills and Thrills, though??? Oh there’s no need to twist my arm so I immediately went to the recommendation page to see what the ol’ MCPLMO

I’ve never read anything by David Wong before this but John Dies at the End has often been enthusiastically recommended to me by people whose tastes in books are, shall we say, eclectic. If John Dies at the End is a horror/adventure novel, as the author describes it, then Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits is likely to be called a horror/adventure/sci-fi/thriller. It’s a rowdy, rollicking geekfest that starts out as fast as a roller coaster and picks up speed with each chapter. As the story ope...

Executive Summary: Do you enjoy sophomoric humor and the victimization of women by cartoon villains? If not, you may want to give this book a pass.Audiobook: Christy Romano was the bright spot here. I really enjoyed her narration. She did a good job with voices and adding something to what was often at times an overly melodramatic and downright infuriating. I would definitely listen to another book read by her again. Full Review This book started out pretty strong for me. I should have been ti...

Well, if it was 100 pages shorter it would have been three stars. To be honest, I still haven't fully decided between one and two stars. By the end I was annoyed enough to go with one but I did enjoy quite a bit of it. This is set in a future world where a man has started a city called Tabula Ra$a. It has no government, although it has a police force sometimes. A corrupt one. All of the characters in this are rather flat, to the point that I was picturing this cheesy cartoon where the girl runs

Well, that was definitely one hell of a fast paced, action packed, and downright crazy novel. Seriously, there was not one moment of calm throughout the entirety of the novel. I was definitely never bored and I was certainly very entertained.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.Although

Though I am sure it will be awesome sauce, I NEED MORE JOHN AND DAVID IN MY LIFE.Please and thank you :D

I'm really torn on this one. I'm a huuuuuuuge David Wong fan -- I was crazy happy when I saw he had written a new book, and had this one bought before it was even released. But . . .Many of the characters here are not nice. They're horrible. And they treat our protagonist, Zoey, horribly. But it's worse than that. They're brutal and cruel and mysogynistic. It's just ugly -- and she's put into danger with these horrible people over and over and over again. And part of me gets it -- this is the wo...

This was the best fart/poop/butt joke book collection I've ever read that also happens to have a plot.Despite it not being exactly everything I hoped it would be, this book had me about three pages in when the heroine (ordering fast food while sitting in her self-driving car) contemplates how did people ever "eat their car chili" if they had to keep their hands on the steering wheel. This girl clearly has her priorities straight. If the future allows me to eat car chili while cruising down the s...

This book is so bizarre and fun to read. I was gifted this by the lovely Elena at christmas time and I picked up the audiobook too so I could listen to this whilst I was working. I liked the narrator, but honestly it was the story which really hooked me in and I read through nearly all of this mostly over two long days where I was working and listening to the audiobook.This tells the story of Zoey Ashe who is basically an average 'poor girl' stereotype until one day her estranged multi-billionai...

A ridiculously hilarious book with colorful characters, snarky dialogue, and a shit ton of bizarre scenarios. Along with her spunk, I appreciate the main character's candor and occasional vulnerability. Although the ending felt rushed, I'm still pleased by how much I laughed and enjoyed myself while reading.

In the past, I've copped to an affection for books that I describe as "a box full of crazy" (for example, Beat the Reaper , Tim Dorsey's Serge Storms series, and Bunker 13 ). These kinds of books have a kind of maniac energy that pull me through even the most demented situations. That's what I thought I was getting here. Alas.Futuristic Violence, in summary, sounds like it can be the real deal. Zoey Ashe, a 20-ish potential refugee from Mike Judge's Idiocracy , discovers she's the only

I finally read it! And guess what? I LOVE this freaking book!!Not only are the characters fucking amazing, but also the plot had my head spinning (in the best way) because I almost never figured out what the hell was going to happen next. I flew through this and now I can't wait for the next installment of this series!! David Wong's writing style is just exactly my cup of tea, I can't deny it, I thought I would like it less because it wasn't the series that I usually read by him but NOPE it was

A very enjoyable, near future comic adventure. David Wong knows how to write a story. He knows how to make you laugh. He knows people and their weaknesses. I really enjoyed this. It wasn't as bend-over-double-laughing funny as The Book is Full of Spiders was, but it really has its moments. Pulp fiction done right.

4.5 StarsFuturistic Violence and Fancy Suits by David Wong is a blast of a read. I am a huge fan of Wong as John Dies at the End is a gem. This is a much more accessible read than the book just mentioned, it is straight forward and much more mainstream. That being said it is still Wong through and through. It is filled with clever dialog, witty humor, fun action, and a bit of cyberpunk imagination. This is not a serious read and it works by simply being fun from start to finish.This is a nearly

I really wanted to love this book, and I liked it somewhat, but it ended up being just okay. There were tons of mistakes that editors should have caught, but did not. It has been a while since I read JDAtE and TBiFoS, but I can't remember either of them being so poorly edited. I suppose such sloppiness could have been overlooked if the trademark Wong humor had been rampant throughout the story, but I found myself eagerly longing for belly-laughs that simply never happened. The novel was not a co...

In this comic action-thriller, Zoey Ashe is plucked out of her mundane existence and inserted directly into unfathomable intrigue when her absentee father dies. I won’t spoil it, but it involves lots of...futuristic violence and fancy suits. Author David Wong is an editor for humor site Cracked.com and his work is always a unique mixture of satire and homage, heavy on pop culture reference.If you want to know what that flavor tastes like, imagine acclaimed horror director David Cronenberg starte...

This is my first David Wong novel (putting me in a very small group of readers who didn't read John Dies at the End first, I would imagine... although I did see the movie version) and I have to say I enjoyed it a great deal. It's funny, action-packed, ridiculous (in a good way) and just a heck of a lot of fun. If I had one issue it would be that it took me a while to warm to the protagonist. I was pleased to see that Wong left it wide open for a sequel, which I'd definitely read.

This book started out with so much action and hooked me from the first sentence. But I felt that it went in an interesting direction and started losing me at the half way point.

I wanted to like this. But I didn't. So I stopped reading it with about 100 pages left. So it goes.

Gonzo crossover cyberpunk/comic book story of a twenty-something, “trailer trash, with big tits and low self-esteem” recent heiress to a pseudo-criminal empire doing battle with bionic supervillains in a futuristic parody of Las Vegas.The City of Tabula Ra$a My audio edition was about fifteen and a half (15 ½) hours long. A dead tree copy would be about 385 pages. The original US copyright was 2015. David Wong is the nom de plume of Jason Pargin an American humor writer. He has 5-books published...

One minute Zoey Ashe is trying to get her smelly cat off the trailer roof and the next she’s being kidnapped by a total creep.It turns out the father she barely knew, Arthur Livingston, has died and his unfathomable wealth has been left to Zoey. He was a big deal criminal so now all kinds of weirdos are after Zoey in order to unlock Arthur’s vault, which will now only open for her. Livingston’s inner circle of the criminal underworld is known as The Suits and they’re trying to protect Zoey at al...