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Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits
Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits | David Wong
In a prosperous yet gruesomely violent near-future, superhero vigilantes battle thugs whose heads are full of supervillain fantasies. The peace is kept by a team of smooth, well-dressed negotiators called The Men in Fancy Suits. College grad Zoey discovers her scumbag dad was one of the founding members of the Fancy Suits, and quickly becomes entangled in the city's surreal mob war when she is taken hostage by a particularly crazy villain.
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Dawny1
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Like it,BUT not as much as the previous two!

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swynn
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A barista's estranged billionaire father dies, leaving her fortune but also his enemies, including a dudebro with the wealth and technology to build an army of supervillains. Mayhem ensues. It's an over-the-top action thriller with comic-book sensibilities and I found it a lot of fun and frequently funny.

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swynn
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If Zoey Ashe had known she was being stalked by a man who intended to kill her and then slowly eat her bones, she would have worried more about that and less about getting her cat off the roof.

#FirstLineFridays
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ShyBookOwl 😅 3y
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EadieB
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Day 21 - #Futuristic #FallFinds
#FuturisticViolenceAndFancySuits #DavidWong

One reviewer called this book a fast- paced, action packed and downright crazy novel!

kyraleseberg I just recently read this and it was nuts (in a fun way)! 3y
EadieB @kyraleseberg That‘s exactly what the reviews I read are saying! 3y
Eggs 👏🏻📚👏🏻🤗👍🏼 3y
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RamsFan1963
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I am posting one book per day from my extensive to-be-read collection. No description or reason for wanting to read the book. Some are old and some will be new. Don't judge me - I have a lot of books.
Day 121

#tbrmountain #bookbuyingdiet

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vlwelser
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This book is really freaking funny. It's also a bit violent and maybe a little bit gross. I can't wait for the next one.

This opens with Zoey being stalked by a horrible human while she's trying to get her cat (Stench Machine) off the roof of her mom's trailer. Great opener, right?

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@TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks Great progress!!! 4y
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Artifice
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Won another giveaway from Goodreads! Been waiting to read this one!
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#Book #Books #Bookstagram #Read #Reading #BookAddict #BookJunkie #BookPorn #Bookaholic #BookLife #BookWorm #BookClub #BookReview #DavidWong #JohnDiesAtTheEnd #Goodreads #Giveaway #ZoeyAshe

TobeyTheScavengerMonk The sequel, titled Zoey Punches the Future in the Dick, drops in October! 4y
Artifice @TobeyTheScavengerMonk I know, I can't wait! 4y
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JeniReadABook
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🌟🌟🌟🌟

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RamsFan1963
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#BoringCover #UglyCover #PuttingYouOffCover

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I bought this despite the cover, not because of it.

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jackilynn
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My Book Outlet order came. So excited to finally be addling these to my collection. I adored John, Dave, & Amy's wacky adventures and Futuristic Violence is a new favorite. I haven't read NOS4A2 yet but owning a physical copy means I am that much closer. Now if only I could get my bookshelves built so I had somewhere to put them.

TobeyTheScavengerMonk All so good! 5y
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jackilynn
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Book: Futuristic Violence & Fancy Suits

Author: Jeaniene Frost

TV show: Friends

Food: French Fries

#manicmonday #letterF @JoScho

Guildedearlobe While I love John Dies at the End, I think Futuristic Violence is his best book. I‘m stoked for the sequel. 6y
jackilynn @Guildedearlobe I would have to agree with you. As much as I enjoy John & Dave's shenanigans, Futuristic Violence is my favorite of the bunch. The sequel can't come soon enough! 6y
JoScho Thanks for playing 💕 6y
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BookBee89
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This book was a very good read. At first I was a little iffy about reading it because i absolutely love Wong‘s John and Dave adventures. But it took what I love about those stories and added a healthy dose of Blade Runner. I highly recommend it

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jackilynn
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TobeyTheScavengerMonk Great image and great review! 6y
jackilynn @TobeyTheScavengerMonk Thanks. I found this image on Google & I knew I had to use it with my review. My only complaint is to make it fit I had to crop it which unfortunately got rid of a very important team member...Stench Machine 😂 6y
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jackilynn
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Somebody has got their stories mixed up. I will now use this whenever I need to explain LOTR to somebody 🤔😜🤓😂

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jackilynn
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Umm....what?! 😂😂

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jackilynn
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Once again diving into the crazy world of David Wong. I enjoyed my time with John & Dave so much I decided to see what else this author had to offer. Fingers crossed it is just as much fun as the others I read. Nothing says futuristic violence like the T-800 & I may not own a fancy suit but I have this snazzy tie 🤓😜

TobeyTheScavengerMonk 5th best book I read last year! Enjoy! 6y
jackilynn @TobeyTheScavengerMonk I have to say I am enjoying it so far. This authors writing is proving to be dark and disturbing (at times) but more often than not down right hilarious. I don't know how he comes up with this stuff. 6y
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MidnightBookGirl
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Pages and I are jumping on the Funko bandwagon! I love how the app captured my dog's grumpiness. #dogsoflitsy

TommieMarie74 I love that your dog‘s name is Pages! ❤️ 6y
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MidnightBookGirl
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It appears that my dog is into the German language. We're currently watching Dark on Netflix and she's riveted. Either that, or she can read subtitles..

#Dogsoflitsy #MorkiesofLitsy #PagestheMorkie

Mommamanzi What a sweet baby! 6y
EchoLogical 😍 6y
Betty Or she's wondering what these gifts are 6y
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Bookzombie 💕🐶 6y
Zelma It is so funny what our pets get into. My cat Radar is really into tv, while the others sleep through everything. 6y
GlassAsDiamonds After a German friend cat sat for us while she was a kitten, Puff is now much better behaved in German than English... 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️ 6y
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MidnightBookGirl
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Started this audiobook this morning (although I did start it last year, I only got a few chapters in) and while it's not quite the John Dies At The End style humor, it's still funny and futuristic and fancy. I was up late last night and needed something to keep me awake and amused on my morning drive.

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RiaWritten
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View from my bed. Three books, a notebook, and the pookie my mom made in the background.

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RiaWritten
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Still in bed, kinda hungry, just scared my cat away by sneezing, not quite emotionally prepared to start Stone Sky. This seems like the obvious choice.

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TobeyTheScavengerMonk
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I expected this book to be funny and action-packed. What I was not expecting was a body-positive anti-classist indictment of frat bro rape culture in the form of a science fiction fable.

If you squint this book could be We Should All Be Feminists with more severed hands and exploding cyborgs. (Like way more severed hands. Like a Star Wars trilogy's worth of severed hands.)

Trigger Warning in the comments:

TobeyTheScavengerMonk Our heroine mentions that the villain has "rape threat Tourette's" and yeah, that constitutes about 70% of all the words that come out of this guy's mouth. 7y
aeeklund Um. STACKED. 7y
Jas16 Stacking this one too 7y
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saresmoore 👏 Great review! 7y
The.Intentional.Reader Loved this one just like the rest of Wong's stuff. 7y
vivastory "We Should All Be Feminists with severed hands & exploding cyborgs" if your teaching career falls through, I think you could easily find employment as a blurb writer 7y
TobeyTheScavengerMonk @vivastory Not the first time a Litten has told me that! Thanks for the vote of confidence. I wonder how one breaks into the field of blurbage. 7y
batsy Your second sentence of this review! That truly sounds amazing. 7y
TobeyTheScavengerMonk @shareyourghost I didn‘t do this on audio but I bet it would be an awesome listen. 6y
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TobeyTheScavengerMonk
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I might just finish this today.

julesG 😂😂😂😂 7y
saresmoore Hahaha! The Ring messed me up as a teen. Big time. 7y
RaimeyGallant Funny! 7y
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TobeyTheScavengerMonk
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I usually roll my eyes when I see the old "someone was screaming and I realized it was me" chestnut, but this had just the right twist.

Guys, you really shouldn't have tried your big plan to take down the bad guy 55% of the way through the book. That's a guarantee that things are going to go way off the rails. Never try the big showdown until at LEAST 80% if you want things to run smoothly.

Laalaleighh 😹😹😹 7y
AshOldfield 😂 7y
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TobeyTheScavengerMonk
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A concise description of our major characters.

saresmoore Ha! This sounds really fun! 7y
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TobeyTheScavengerMonk
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Since humans first associated sounds with written symbols, no sentence has been more perfectly crafted. Truly this is the pinnacle of literary achievement. All effort with the written word from this point on is futile. We must meditate on this in order to achieve nirvana.

avalinah This is really weird, because I'm sure I have never read this book, but I just had the strongest dejavu ever 😃 I feel like I've definitely read that sentence somewhere! Must be the existencial perfection of it 😂 7y
Kittens_Books I tried to put my thoughts into words when I was reading this but you've done it effortlessly. Wong's handle on writing and dropping the weirdest things into a sentence - and still having it make sense - is second to none!!! 7y
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saresmoore HAHA! It really is perfect! 7y
BookHermit Well, it *is* a Christmas movie 🙃 7y
Laura317 *snort* 🤣🤣🤣 I wonder which one was Baby Jesus? 🤔 7y
TobeyTheScavengerMonk @Laura317 I have honestly spent an unreasonable amount of time thinking about this. I finally settled on Argyle, the limo driver. 7y
Laura317 @TobeyTheScavengerMonk Perfection. Nothing says Christmas quite like that!😂 7y
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TobeyTheScavengerMonk
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The cat in my #currentread is named Stench Machine. That is all. #riotgrams

saresmoore This cover! When you posted about this previously, I immediately put it on hold for my husband at the library. Now I just have to keep mentioning it until he reads it. 😁 7y
elkeOriginal 🤣👏🤣👏 7y
quietjenn I enjoyed this book so much more than I expected to. 7y
silentrequiem Oooh this satisfies the "cat on the cover" category for PopSugar's 2017 reading challenge. 7y
TobeyTheScavengerMonk @silentrequiem So far It is awesome and hilarious. I'm about 30% in and I would highly recommend it. 7y
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Kittens_Books
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"The people of Tabula Ra$a fell into roughly three camps in response to the terror threat:..."

Sometimes you read something that hits you like nobody has ever been hit before. In the wake of the various terror incidents that have hit my hometown in the past 3 weeks, I have been struck by the spirit of the people in town. They don't give up. It's just an inconvenience to have to deal with.

David Wong nailed human spirit, pass it on.

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TobeyTheScavengerMonk
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LectricSheep 😆 7y
Riveted_Reader_Melissa 😂😂😂😂that's not paranoid girl, that's seeing the red flags flopping in the wind. 7y
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xicanti That's a hell of an image. 7y
TobeyTheScavengerMonk @xicanti We find out later that he goes by The Soul Collector. And also Brandon. (edited) 7y
Redwritinghood Hmm . . . I wonder what it was?🤔😂 7y
mjdowens Eww and creepy all at the same time. Nice job there😂😂 7y
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Kittens_Books
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Bring on the weirdest schtick I'll read this year. I love David Wong.

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TobeyTheScavengerMonk
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When the person trying to save you from a killer chooses the wrong time for humor.

The.Intentional.Reader Awesome book! Loved the humor in it😂 7y
Seshat 😂🤣 7y
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TobeyTheScavengerMonk
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The best thing about finishing a book is starting a new one! And I can already tell I'll be posting quotes like crazy. That is how you do a first sentence, folks.

Jess_Read_This I'm interested! What a start to the story! 7y
DGRachel 😳 7y
Leniverse Eat her bones! That's... unusual even as these things go, isn't it? 😆 7y
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vivastory I've been meaning to read this. I think this will be my next book 7y
Alytrue Yikes😱😱😱 7y
TobeyTheScavengerMonk @vivastory 15% in and I would describe it as Ready Player One but BETTER. 7y
vivastory @TobeyTheScavengerMonk I haven't read "Ready Player One" but I have a pretty good idea what you mean. 7y
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TobeyTheScavengerMonk
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Keeping my June TBR super reasonable due to The Way of Kings (hit the quarter mark yesterday!). I will be incredibly pleased if I can make it through these 3.

Laalaleighh Old school Pratchett! 7y
EvieBee Whoa! A doorstop for sure! 7y
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vivastory @TobeyTheScavengerMonk Same here. I need to read "Futuristic Violence etc" before it comes out. 7y
LibraryUke Is "The Light Fantastic" a Discworld book? 7y
TobeyTheScavengerMonk @LibraryUke Yep, the second one published. I'm aiming to read through in published order. 7y
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therowdylibrarian
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I can finish this by Sunday, yeah? #catsandguns

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Megan_Roberts
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This book is insane in the best way possible! It reminded me a lot of Kill Bill. While I am not going to be book talking this in the high school, I will be pushing it to my mature readers who are ready for a wild story!

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theardentbiblio
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Seriously this reads like a Quentin Tarantino film, just a lot of casual murder and a fun mystery and non stop action that yanks you by the arm into the story and never lets go. Laugh out loud funny, utterly absurd, and so much fun to read!

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Ksvz
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Futuristic Fiction eBook I loved this book. I was laughing and loving the situations. Similar to Atrocity Archives. I have a new author to follow. Great story and awesome cover, how can you not win

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SGJ
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Already having fun with this one. http://a.co/dqGt9DX

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InaAndBooks
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A non-stop thrill ride through the fantastic universe of Tabula Rasa, from the viewpoint of snarky Zoey Ashe, a young lady yanked from her all too ordinary trailer park life when her gangster father dies, leaving her with everything: riches, power, suited-up staff, and many, many insane enemies.

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Librarian
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Very excited to start this! I'm intrigued by the cover and am wondering what role the cat will play.

bookwrm526 Hopefully not the role it looks like it's playing on the title!! 8y
Librarian Ha, @bookwrm526 ! I'll let you know. 8y
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