In her 2003 novel Oryx and Crake, Margaret Atwood describes a future after humanity had been almost entirely wiped out by a plague. Jimmy, aka Snowman, lives...
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An excellent mystery, sci-fi, satire, thriller. In this hard to categorize book, Matt Ruff weaves an intricate tale through a labyrinth of scenes, locations, and characters. Jane Charlotte works part time for the The Department for the Final Disposition of Irredeemable Persons, a division of The Organization, a secret crime-fighting group whose aim is to hunt and kill "Bad Monkeys." But is there something in Jane's past that taints her as a Bad Monkey? A mind and genre bending book that will leave you turning the pages until the very end.
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Bad Monkeys by Matt Ruff
naglemcnaughton, February 14, 2008
An excellent mystery, sci-fi, satire, thriller. In this hard to categorize book, Matt Ruff weaves an intricate tale through a labyrinth of scenes, locations, and characters. Jane Charlotte works part time for the The Department for the Final Disposition of Irredeemable Persons, a division of The Organization, a secret crime-fighting group whose aim is to hunt and kill "Bad Monkeys." But is there something in Jane's past that taints her as a Bad Monkey? A mind and genre bending book that will leave you turning the pages until the very end.(8 of 19 readers found this comment helpful)