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

Random Acts of Senseless Violence (Dryco)

Jack Womack

Paperback | Pages: 256 pages

Rating: 3.95 | 2176 Users | 302 Reviews

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Title	:	Random Acts of Senseless Violence (Dryco)
Author	:	Jack Womack
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First 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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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. --Publisher/Powells.com

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This is a well written book. It is told from the point of view of a young girl whom we get to watch disintegrate in exquisite detail. Some will respond that it's not her disintegration, but in a very real sense it's the story of her and her society coming apart. As I said, it's very well done and I know many rate this book very highly.So, this is one of the most depressing, sad, harrowing books out there and if that's what you're looking for you will have found it here.I rate books on more than

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

Ah, thank you, S.F. Masterworks series! Another literary spec fic book that I would have never found otherwise. Like the Clarke book, this one opens with an impassioned intro from another author (William Gibson), explaining why this is such a secret, cult favorite. I'm liable to agree! It's original, explosive, exaggerated, tragicomic, and did I mention original? It's double-original. It's n-original. It was fun and dark and demented. I loved it!The titular random act of senseless violence

So tough to rate.1) Exquisite writing. Mind-blowingly marvelous. The shifting voice of the MC is compelling and utterly believable.I've penned myself dry with all I writ. You give ear when everybody deafs and lend me shoulder constant if tears need dropping.2)The book kept me up ALL NIGHT. I was unable to stop reading because I had to find out about Iz and Boob and Lola.3) At the same time, I hated the plot. I'm not saying it was a bad plot. It was gripping and perfectly structured. It's no mean

Dear DiaryYou are the only one I can turn too when I am troubled and have no one to talk too. My friends are all reading a book called Random Acts of Senseless Violence written by a guy named Jack Womack. They think it's so cool and it does have a cool name and cover and I really wanted to like it. Really I did... but I just finished reading it and I feel kinda' "meh" about it. Maybe I was expecting more from it, or maybe dear Diary, maybe I'm too old to be cool anymore. Or maybe it's just not

This book is awesome, and its a during-the-apocalypse epistolary YA book full of teen lesbians, which all adds up to why on earth havent I heard about this before now (especially since it was written in 1995)?One of the things that makes this book so good is that its the story of the transformation of a girl from a sheltered, private-school-attending, not-concerned-about-anything person to someone who ends up abandoning her family because theyre not very helpful and making her own way in the

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