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Summary: Advance praise for SLAUGHTERMATIC
Review: "Nearly as hallucinatory as Burroughs' work." -- Kirkus Reviews"Not only conceptually brilliant and satirically walloping, but stylistically innovative." -- Isaac Asimov's Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction "An instant avant-pop classic which signals the arrival of a major new talent. Two thumbs up!" -- Larry McCaffery
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Summary: Good book for a smart 14 year old boy
Review: A stylish easy read that lacks the substance to take off, like a great cartoon. Smart and funny in spots but never challenging.
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Summary: Not quite what I expected
Review: Based on the reviews I thought this would be a fun sort of book and worth a bit of time reading. I was, unfortunately, gravely disappointed. It reads like Douglas Adams on acid, only not quite as coherent. The other book that jumps to mind is sections of the Illuminatus Trilogy, without the conspiracy. Overall, I just didn't see the point. Neat ideas, I guess, funny in a strange sort of way, but not enough of either or a sensible storyline or plot or concept behind it to make it worth struggling through to find the interesting parts. I suspect I'm just a bit too linear to like this. Which isn't to say it's bad, I just don't like it.
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Summary: Not quite what I expected
Review: Based on the reviews I thought this would be a fun sort of book and worth a bit of time reading. I was, unfortunately, gravely disappointed. It reads like Douglas Adams on acid, only not quite as coherent. The other book that jumps to mind is sections of the Illuminatus Trilogy, without the conspiracy. Overall, I just didn't see the point. Neat ideas, I guess, funny in a strange sort of way, but not enough of either or a sensible storyline or plot or concept behind it to make it worth struggling through to find the interesting parts. I suspect I'm just a bit too linear to like this. Which isn't to say it's bad, I just don't like it.
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Summary: Entertaining and surreal
Review: Buñuel meets Tarantino meets Gibson in this ultraviolent, surreal mess of cyberpunk cliches. Coherency here is traded off for significant amounts of imagination and entertainment value, as well as a few sharp notions here and there; the result reads more like verse than prose, and your enjoyment of the material will vary directly with how much a psychotic, book-length, knee-deep-in-blood-and-shells poem appeals to you. It's not quite as deep as it thinks it is - or at least, it lacks the clarity to prove it - and the plot burbles into the background, but the energy and the verbal imagination never lets up. Recommended highly, but with reservations.
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Summary: Aylett saved me
Review: I hadn't read a novel in at least 5 years. I was browsing in a book store in San Francisco with some friends when I happened across Slaughtermatic. Before I returned to the streets I had read the entire thing- cover to cover. "How could someone write in such a fashion?" I thought to myself, "How could someone simultaneously fill me with joy, sorrow, fear, hope, laughter, tears, the urge to urinate, the need to become an elevator mechanic, the will to abandon my current belief system, the know-how to intelligently use the word 'and' in 5 or more idiomatically correct sentences, the love of bread, the loathing of hate, the dislike of bags, altruism, veneration, magnanimousness, the ability to occlude, hunger, thirst, lethargy, pain, free high quality hair cuts, bombastic speech patterns, the knowledge of my own name, the realization that I am not dead and don't want to be, exhaustion, dehydration, deadliness and skill?" I still haven't found the answer. It's been about a year since that fateful trip to the bookstore and I'm not the same. I see color now. Before I read Slaughtermatic I was confined to a wheelchair, now I walk. I recommend this book to any and all who are willing to undertake an adventure, to challenge their beliefs and to exhibit the courage to change themselves, no matter where they are in life. This donkey of a review is over.
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Summary: Funny, filled with action
Review: I laughed out loud through a good portion of this book. It's a thoroughly engrossing story of a bank robbery gone bad as the thieves bounce around in time trying to find a way out. Aylett has a succinct, perfect way of describing action that immediately ellicits some kind of mental picture. This book reads like Tarantino writing a sequel to the Matrix, filled with big guns, lots of violence, funny dialogue, all in a satiric dystopian future. It reads quickly and is a must for sci-fi fans, even those, like me, that are not hardcore in the genre. I can't recommend this highly enough.
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Summary: An acquired taste.
Review: If paranoid schizophrenia and sociopathic behavior suddenly became extremely contagious most every major city would resemble Beerlight--if you made sure that the unbalanced but well medicated citizens all had unlimited amouts of firepower at their disposal. Slaughtermatic hits the ground running and doesn't stop. No one, not the reader or the characters have time to slow down and figure out what the hell is going on with the story. I'm not really sure what Aylett's objective was, perhaps, he wanted to create a book that only a homocidal reader could fully comprehend. Still, if you suspend your disbelief as well as any hope of making sense of the story, it can be a fun ride.
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Summary: Something New In Cyberpunk
Review: It's not for everyone...but I loved Slaughtermatic. I couldn't put it down, and convinced all of my friends to buy it, and most of them read it in one sitting also. It's like revenge of the Evil Toons in Toonland. It is almost impossible to describe Aylett's prose yet his imagination is something else. The weapons alone are worth the price of the book. Having said that don't succumb to buying his other books. I found them insanely disappointing after having read this, the cream of the crop. Especially irritating is his non-linear plot in "The Inflatable Volunteer". Steve, you are capable of so much, why do you do this to us? Read it, love it.
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Summary: Takes off where William S. Burroughs left off...
Review: Old Bill Lee would be proud o' Mister Aylett. This book comes ripping at you hard and fast. Like Noon's Vurt? This thing makes Vurt seem like slow days in a Yurt. The characters are pasty and cardboard because the action is so angry and fast. No time to get to know anyone or need because they'll probably lose a leg or a head in the next scene. An angry work. The kind of read that makes you wish you were a film producer.
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