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... Shore by Joshua Mowll
The Umbrella Academy Vol.1: Apocalypse Suite by Gerard Way
Crooked Pieces by Sarah Grazbrook
Bad Monkeys by Matt Ruff
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
Dead Famous by Ben Elton
Fables: Legends in Exile by Bill Willingham
TV Cream Toys by Steve Berry
Runaways ... Good list! I thought Bad Monkeys was pretty good too, especially the ending. ... to The Wood Wife by Terri Windling, which I loved. This one, while worth reading, is not as good.
3 Stars
BOOK 128 Bad Monkeys by Matt Ruff
What a surpirse this thriller was. I was totally fooled by the ending.
3 1/2 Stars
BOOK 129 Plainsong by Kent Haruf
A well written story ... I enjoyed both Set This House in Order and Bad Monkeys, so I'll have to look for Sewer, Gas, and Electric too. ... dark as it doesn't hide the abuse behind the MPD.. so if you are bit sensitive you might want to avoid and go for his Bad Monkeys instead (also v good).
Need to get better at short reviews! ... Set This House in Order is a bit more serious in tone. I know it was completely different from the highly entertaining Bad Monkeys, which I also recommend. He isn't very prolific is he! ... (p15)
5. Making Money by Terry Pratchett (p16)
6. Barbara und die Schlacht von Waterloo by Georgette Heyer (p18)
7. Bad Monkeys by Matt Ruff (p22)
8. The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle (p24)
9. Billy Budd by Herman Melville (p28)
10. Das Amulett von Samarkand ... I would add Bad Monkeys to the tbr pile, but it is already there. I'll have to move it up a few notches. I like your description. ... I think he wrote some egregiously bad novels, some of which will be listed below, this one is simply disappointing...)
* Bad Monkeys by Matt Ruff
* Behold the Man by Michael Moorcock
* Callahan's Crosstime Saloon by Spider Robinson (It wasn't actually bad, it was just much worse ... Bad Monkeys has one of my favorite concepts of all time. A natural cause gun. Six new books added to my library today:
Bad Monkeys by Matt Ruff
The Discovery of Chocolate by James Runcie
Here on Earth by Alice Hoffman
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
The Underneath by Kathi Appelt
The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia by Orla ... I loved Bad Monkeys and I have Set This House In Order in my TBR. I have high hopes for that although I have heard it said it is in a different style. Have you read Set This House in Order by Ruff? I liked Bad Monkeys by I liked Set This House in Order better. Bad Monkeys was indeed very good! 26.Bad Monkeys by Matt Ruff
Pure Brilliace, lot of twists and turns, funny and sarastic.
i do not have enough stars for this
*****+++++
Finished Bad Monkeys.........so-so. I am about to start Scoop by Evelyn Waugh for an LT Group Read. I continue listening to A Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert. #34 - Bad Monkeys by Matt Ruff - *** I have one foot in the St. Joaquim Valley of California being introduced to Bad Monkeys by Matt Ruff, and one foot in France witnessing A Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert. "Hold off on the bacon", I said, "I'll be right back."
Bad Monkeys by Matt Ruff
"What about Arlo?" "Afterwards, Phil came to see me and we had a long heart to heart about what I was going to do with my life."
Bad Monkeys by Matt Ruff ... forecasts our future. I am listening to A Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert and I am about to start reading Bad Monkeys by Matt Ruff. ... by Andrew Vachss (decent, but not his best)
Deathwish by Rob Thurman (the more I read, the more I like this series)
Bad Monkeys by Matt Ruff (good but slightly disappointing)
Born Fighting by James Webb (excellent)
American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America by Chr ... Hi aquascum
I've added Bad Monkeys to my tbr pile.
Your thread is a very interesting one! ... the Boy by Tony Earley......................North Carolina
Outcasts United by Warren St. John........Georgia
Bad Monkeys by Matt Ruff....................California
Wild Nights by Joyce Carol Oates.......Idaho
The Hour I First Believed by Wally Lamb...Colorado
So ... Onto the wishlist goes Bad Monkeys. LT is very bad for my shelf's health. Oh, yeah, Bad Monkeys was terrific! 7. Bad Monkeys by Matt Ruff. A rollercoster ride thought reality as percieved by the narrator, including a 'Big Brother' vibe and discussion of the Nod problem. True, Wise and Love... perish. Or do they?
The idea of Library Binding is intriguing; just imagnie, of every book you ever read it is ... ... Collins
3. Fantasy - Graceling by Kristin Cashore
4. Science fiction - Bad monkeys by Matt Ruff
5. Memoir - A long way gone by Ishmael Beah
6. Humour - The uncommon reader by Alan Bennett Let's give it another shot
1. Bad Monkeys - Matt Ruff
2. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
3. The Child Garden - Geoff Ryman
4. Darwin's Radio - Greg Bear
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9. Authors I've Never Read Before:
1) Bad Monkeys by Matt Ruff - ***
2) Rant by Chuck Palahniuk
3) Drop City by T. Coraghessan Boyle - **
4) The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass
5) The Casualty by Heinrich Boll - *****
6) House Made of Dawn by M. Scott Momaday
... Just finished Bad Monkeys, which was fun but could have been so much more. I've been re-reading Guy Kay's Fionavar Tapestry at bedtime just to take a break between new books. I've got a big pile from my library book sale waiting for me to pick one. I'm thinking maybe The House of Mirth. Bad Monkeys by Matt Ruff From drneutron's library I chose Bad Monkeys. It has been in my TBR pile, but I will have to bump it up. 63. Bad Monkeys by Matt Ruff ... in the Land of Alzheimer’s
by Lauren Kessler of Eugene, OR
The God of Animals
by Aryn Kyle of Missoula, MT
Bad Monkeys
by Matt Ruff of Seattle, WA
How about Bad Monkeys by Matt Ruff - it has excellent reviews here and elsewhere. Note although I have it listed I haven't read it yet. #93 "Bad Monkeys" by Matt Ruff
I went to graduate school at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y. Matt Ruff's first novel was "The Fool on the Hill' which I really liked. I tried reading his second novel: "Sewer, Gas and Electric" but bogged down pretty early on and haven't gone back to ... ... with.
Maybe I can return to a semblance of my earlier reading form of this year (we'll see, won't we!)
Now reading:
"Bad Monkeys" by Matt Ruff
"The Victorian Internet" by Tom Standage
"Blood is the Sky" by Steve Hamilton
"A Smile on the Face of the Tiger" by Loren D ... Go here: http://reading.kingrat.biz/archives/926
Matt Ruff Bad Monkeys
Robert Ludlum The Bourne Identity
... in spite of the hokey title is a really good Sherlock pastiche.
The Spellman Files and Curse of the Spellmans
Bad Monkeys was a bit odd, but thoroughly enjoyable. ... to Rigel has been out for a bit, but was new to me. It's a really neat sci-fi spy thriller with lots of plot twists. Bad Monkeys was a spy/conspiracy story with lots of mess-with-your-mind twists.
I'm sensing a theme...guess I've been reading stuff with intricate plots lately! What did you think of Bad Monkeys? Oh, and I see Duma Key on your list - it's one of the books I'm recommending to folks these days... ... King
23. 28 Days Later by Steve Niles
24. Shelf Monkey by Corey Redekop
25. Book Lust by Nancy Pearl
26. Bad Monkeys by Matt Ruff
27. In The Miso Soup by Ryu Murakami
28. Othello by William Shakespeare
29. Some Things Are Better Left Unplugged by Vincent Sakowski
3 ... Bad Monkeys - just had to check it out... 30. Bad Monkeys by Matt Ruff
Bad Monkeys was a head-twisting, surreal ride through conspiracies and secret organizations, all with a twist of uncertainty about the reality of the whole thing. I zipped right through without hardly taking a breath, and it kept me guessing the whole time. Just ... Bad Monkeys by Matt Ruff
The Somnambulist by Jonathan Barnes
The Glamour by Christopher Priest
Thursday Next in First Among Sequels by Jasper Fforde
Sula by Toni Morrison ... enjoy The Faerie Queen but I'm glad I read it. Consequently, Measuring the World , Erewhon, How Hits Happen and Bad Monkeys are being removed from my challenge list. This pulls me back but I feel more satisfied.
Now for new additions since last update.
I mentioned The Faerie Q ... ... what should be the third. These books were seriously fantastic and definitely favorites for life, not just the month.
Bad Monkeys by Matt Ruff
The Somnambulist by Jonathan Barnes
... in the pit of your stomach 'this isn't a good idea' - it may well not be.
I have to say that I didn't really enjoy Bad Monkeys. It took me about 4 tries to get through in the end, and honestly, if I hadn't listed it I probably still wouldn't have finished it. This book was recommended ... ... my own mind - so it's extremely unlikely that I'll read this again. Fortunately it's a library book.
43. (59.) Bad Monkeys - Matt Ruff (230pp)
I really wanted to like this book due to the recommendations I received but I just couldn't. I finished it but it was a chore. I ... The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood
Origin by Diana Abu-Jaber
Bad Monkeys by Matt Ruff
The Book Thief by Zusak
The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar
Ghostwalk by Rebecca Stott
Medicus by Ruth Downie
After Dark by Haruki Murakami
Three Bags Full by Leonie Swann
Divisadero ... ... the moment. At present I'm in the midst of reading (in order of start & ignoring planned 'long term' reads): Erewhon, Bad Monkeys, Measuring the World, Darwins Radio, The Lady in White, Suite Francaise. WHY do I have this problem of completion - then yesterday I went off to pick up ... ... copy available for loans. Argh. So in the end I decided to try another similar book, to give me a taste as it were.
BAD is a curmudgeonly look at American culture in the 80s/90s and is intent on demonstrating how monstrously bad much of it is. Although I didn't agree with all of his ... ... copy available for loans. Argh. So in the end I decided to try another similar book, to give me a taste as it were.
BAD is a curmudgeonly look at American culture in the 80s/90s and is intent on demonstrating how monstrously bad much of it is. Although I didn't agree with all of his ... My top novels in no particular order:
Watchmen
Snow Crash
V for Vendetta
The Absolute Sandman
Bad Monkeys ... people who are writing for newspapers and other similar publications (which doesn't include me).
I'm currently reading Bad Monkeys by Matt Ruff, which so far is pretty dissimilar to his other books (so far not better or worse, just different), although it's zipping along really quickly - 50 ... Bad Monkeys by Matt Ruff; recommended by my good friend Lynne. Funny, paranoid, strange; it doesn't wimp out at the end. Who are the bad guys, who are the good guys? You'll be kept guessing by one of the most unreliable narrators I've ever met in a book.
The EC Archives: Shock Suspenstories Vo ... ... Weisman.
2. Eifelheim by Michael Flynn.
3. God is Dead by Ron Currie Jr. Strong debut novel.
4. Bad Monkeys by Matt Ruff. Philip K. Dick mind fuckery style.
5. Ex Libris by Anne Fadiman. Would have been higher except for the chapter where she declares her ... I am reading Plutarch's Lives, Philosophy 101 by Stanley Rosen and Matt Ruff's Bad Monkeys. 72. Bad Monkeys by Matt Ruff
  ![]() ... to Set This House in Order then, is it? Btw, I noticed in the bookstore today that Matt Ruff has a new novel out called Bad Monkeys. I was curious as he is a clever writer but didn't want to buy it on a whim without checking out reviews (I found the Christopher Moore blurb on it a complete ... ... Days to Never
Nine Sonnets
Gods and Pawns
The Foreign Correspondent: A Novel - reviewed
D.A. - reviewed
Bad Monkeys - reviewed
In Your Dreams - reviewed
Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash - reviewed
Abu and the 7 Marvels
Kop by Warren Hammond - reviewed
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