O, Wow Review

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(More customer reviews)Reviewed by Carol Hoyer, PhD, for Reader Views (06/10)

The author has taken all the world events that are happening today and placed those in the future. There is lack of regard for the law; people are running from disasters, while all around them there are abductions, slavery and general chaos.Kristin Banner and Peter Dooley are trying to escape all this madness through the Holland Tunnel. Kristin is almost captured by slavers.There is no method to this madness- it's everyone out for himself or herself.

This really is satire in its fullest form.Although highly entertaining, I had some misgivings about the author just jumping into the first chapter talking about Ants and Grasshoppers- I had no clue what he was talking about.I would have liked some background before getting into the action.There was no information about the author (background, writing experience) or anything that stated the purpose of the book, so I felt like I had to figure out this alone.Any book that requires me to try to figure that out discourages me from reading it.

I will have to admit in support of the author, Science Fiction is not my forte. (The press release said it was a novel as well as the subtitle of the book says it's a novel.) I have an open mind and am willing to learn about anything, but I can honestly say this book did nothing for me as a reader or reviewer.As a Psychologist, I have a tendency to read books from that point of view and I do think this book gives one an idea about how events in the world today and in the future have an impact on individuals.

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A satiric fable of the near future:Nationwide, cities are in trouble. A violent hurricane has swept up the eastern seaboard, overwhelming neglected infrastructure and demolishing public services. Rumored terrorist intrigues of stolen nuclear devices and unleashed plagues have incited multitudes to abandon familiar but now devastated neighborhoods and take to the highways on foot. In the lawless back country predatory gangs exploit hapless refugees and vulnerable communities to traffic in plunder, drugs and sex slaves. A young comedy team, Banner and Dooley, has just finished a stint in a government effort to win public acceptance of harsh new austerity measures. The project has imbued them with powerful nanobiotic maxnet brain-surfing technology to enable rapid production while fueling their comic inventions of Ant and Grasshopper skits in response to live polling data.Now Peter Dooley and the duo's manager, Kristin Banner, are swept up in mass exodus from Manhattan. Early in their trek, in violent confrontation in the Holland Tunnel, Kristin narrowly escapes abduction by slavers. During the skirmish Dooley's persona, overwhelmed by auto-adaptive resources of his internalized nanotech, gives way to Grasshopper, a comically erratic gadfly of all Ant-ward misgivings.Out among hordes of dispossessed refugees Grasshopper's exuberant nonchalance magnetically draws crowds of adherents who find in his comedic coping seemingly miraculous powers of healing that soon incite national media obsession. His meteoric notoriety draws political, religious and covert agencies into devious and risky collusion to discredit such "unfortunate national obsession."In this wry tale of a reluctant savior, a young technician, Jason Hood, smitten by gentle charms of one Chloe Jernigan, artist, teacher and devotee of Grasshopper, learns that maddening escapades may lead through dimensions of hidden cosmic significance.

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