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It's always a joy to find an author with a new voice, a new vision, and a unique way of using words- and Zack Kopp certainly delivers. Influences abound, but never to the point where the author is anyone but himself. There's an old Kerouac type beat to the writing, a Gonzo wit, a Beckett and Satre state of being and a post-Generation X feeling. Anyone who sits on the side of Bill Hicks' way of looking at the world, won't be disappointed with Sorehead.

So what's it all about? Howard Plumber, the protagonist, is trying to make it as a writer- surrounded by musicians, poets, artists... trying to make sense of the world, as each generation's artistic counter culture does. But in this brave new i-world of the twenty first century, there's something else that defines this present alternative culture, and yet it can't quite be pinpointed in any meaningful short sentence. Enter Howard Plumber's head and you'll find mysticism, synchronicity, conspiracy truths, modern day paranoias, comic books, music, movies, subjective and objective arguments, the five sense illusion of the world, seeing peace signs in cracks on pavements, alien contemplation, marijuana medicine, the Law of Attraction, interconnectedness, sub stories that take the notion of self and split it into even more personalities that are sometimes human, sometimes God, sometimes nothingness. Sometimes just humour. When reading Sorehead, it often felt as though I was sifting through my very own thoughts.
If you want something different, something groovy and something that'll make you think, Sorehead is for you.
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