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Original Title: Random Acts of Senseless Violence
ISBN: 0802134246 (ISBN13: 9780802134240)
Edition Language: English
Series: Dryco

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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, teases her sister Boob. But in the increasingly troubled city where she lives (a near-future Manhattan) she is a dying breed. Riots, fire, TB outbreaks, roaming gangs, increasing inflation, political and civil unrest all threaten her way of life, as well as the very fabric of New York City.

In her diary, Lola chronicles the changes she and her family make as they attempt to adjust to a city, and a country, that is spinning out of control. Her mother is a teacher, but no one is hiring. Her father is a writer, but no one is buying his scripts. Hounded by creditors and forced to vacate their apartment and move to Harlem, her family, and her life, begins to dissolve. Increasingly estranged from her privileged school friends, Lola soon makes new ones: Iz, Jude, and Weezie - wise veterans of the street who know what must be done in order to survive and are more than willing to do it. And the metamorphosis of Lola Hart, who is surrounded by the new language and violence of the streets, begins.

Simultaneously chilling and darkly hilarious, Random Acts of Senseless Violence takes the jittery urban fears we suppress, both in fiction and in daily life, and makes them explicit - and explicitly terrifying.

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Title:Random Acts of Senseless Violence (Dryco)
Author:Jack Womack
Book Format:Paperback
Book Edition:Deluxe Edition
Pages:Pages: 256 pages
Published:September 1st 1995 by Grove Press (first published 1993)
Categories:Science Fiction. Fiction. Dystopia. Cyberpunk. Speculative Fiction. Apocalyptic. Post Apocalyptic. Novels

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Take Oliver Twist, A Clockwork Orange, and Maggie, a Girl of the Streets and beat them into a pulp with a baseball bat, and you've got Random Acts.The last line made my heart lurch in horror, and not cynical, unfeeling horror of The Wasp Factory, but the kind that comes from genuine despair. I'm afraid that this is one of those books I'm going to be cornering unsuspecting people with at parties and saying "Have you read this f#cking thing?" while they cough and try to shuffle away.Mindlost and

I found this a quick and engaging read. Truth be told, I'm wondering if I lack some empathy gene, because I didn't find it nearly as harrowing or depressing as many other reviews have stated. Partly, I think, is because the author started focusing more on Lola's descent into violence (the gradual shift in voice and action is skillfully done) than fleshing her out as a character; take away her burgeoning sexuality and what else is there? And, honestly, is it really futuristic & dystopian?

Well, in the areas of "dark apocalypse fiction" this one takes the cake. I'm reading a lot of dark books starring children lately, come to think about it.This is like a book version of the Telltale Walking Dead game starring Clem. I don't have any better description, actually. It's super dark. Breakdown of society. Diary entries of a kid. Lord of the Flies-ish. Between this and Station Eleven I need to read a bunch of romance fluff for a while, haha.

This book was brilliant and it was so close to being 5 stars for me. I totally added this book to my tbr because of the title (Random Acts of Senseless Violence is a fucking awesome title), but that barely scratches the surface of what this book is. Its a character driven book set in a near dystopian future that follows 12 year old Lola as she adjusts to her familys changing financial circumstances. But the world around her is absolutely insane; riots everywhere, five presidents assassinated

Very disappointing. The book is structured as a series of diary entries of a twelve year old girl, and that got old real quick. I found these portrayals wholly unconvincing, not least of which are the frequent sexual depictions that were just outright creepy. The story is essentially a coming of age tale that takes place in a society that's slowly falling apart. We get no context or background on this, nothing more than the fact that riots seem to break out all over the place, apparently for no

This book should be as famous as A Clockwork Orange - like that one it has its own language and pictures a near future urban nightmare featuring gangs of feral children.But it isn't. Perhaps the problem is the title, which is, when you look at it objectively, completely crap. Perhaps the problem is that when people see that it's about a near future urban nightmare featuring gangs of feral children they think huh, I already read one like that.Doesn't stop them reading umpteen books about vampires

The best piece of dystopian fiction I've read in a long time. A very disturbing novel, the diary of a twelve-year-old girl living the beginning of a slow-apocalypse and her transformation from the best girl in the school into an end of the world child. Sometimes it was almost to disturbing watching this apocalypse creeping into her world, her city, her street, her building, her family and finally into her soul. I'm astonished that almost nobody seems to have read this brilliant book. Read it and

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