Click
by Kristopher Young
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Author: Kristopher YoungEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2006-03-01
ISBN: 0977605108
Number of pages: 180
Publisher: another sky press
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Book Review: Picture perfect - Click clicks!
Summary: 5 Stars
Perfect! Kristopher Young has written a superb novel! The words click, the sections click, the book just clicks! From Jesse Reno cover to cover. Similar in style to much of what I read, but unlike anything I've ever read before.
Love it! Young's protagonist is a horrible, wonderful, crazy mess, but with good intentions. Control eludes this poor creature. Whatever control he gains over his rapid life, it's quickly disrupted by external things, internal things, things in between. Torn.
Young gives Click such a great energy, pace. First page a starter's pistol. The story never lets up, barely takes time to blink or breathe. Love everything about this book.
Best thing about Click? If forced to choose, couple things...
1) Young can write. Click is easily one of the best books I've read recently, and I read a lot. I'll proudly stack Click on top of books by some of my favorite authors. Not because these books have everything in common necessarily - except in tone perhaps. But because Young is a wonderfully talented and unique author - as is Chuck Palahniuk, as is A.M. Homes, as is William Gibson, as is Carlton Mellick III, etc. All for very different reasons. Great author = great book.
2) Click is violent, yes. But Young doesn't glorify/deify this violence. His protagonist spends most of the book trying to avoid or prevent this violence. It's forced upon him. It's a product of where he lives, the people around him, his 'gift'. Young doesn't celebrate this violence, but explores it, taps and pokes at it with a stick until it springs. Why? It's here, makes sense that it would be there.
3) Section to wonderful section, you're never quite sure if Young's anti-hero is awake, asleep, somewhere in between. Living? Dreaming? Hallucinating? You almost want drugs to be involved, but they aren't, which just makes the book more alive, aware, awake.
OK. That's my pitch. No snake oil in this bottle. No cure, but whatever it is, it's real. Read this book. Tell your friends - they'll thank you!
Not only is Click amazing, but the creative machine behind it - Another Sky Press - is positively revolutionary! Check out their site.
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Please visit anothersky.org & jessereno.com.
Thank you for your time!
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Summary of Click
Intelligent fiction for the mentally unhinged. Click is urban grit of the highest order - a first person romp through the unreality of an unnamed metropolis in which the protagonist is stalked by his inner demons while half-heartedly trying to save the world. Fun and excitement for the whole dysfuntional family, Click is not to be missed. Plot Summary - Click's hero is experiencing glitches in the universe. He may have tapped into a strange ability which gives him control over the world around him. Or, there's the disturbing possiblity that he's a case study in paranoid schizophrenia. After all, -they- might be after him. He's falling apart -- and to make matters worse, his girlfriend may just be crazier than he is. Forced to face his fears and come to terms with his own flawed nature, he must discover what it means to truly evolve.Literary Books
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