Extinction Journals
by Jeremy Robert Johnson
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Author: Jeremy Robert JohnsonEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2006-04-17
ISBN: 1933929014
Number of pages: 104
Publisher: Swallowdown Press
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Book Review: HOO BOY!
Summary: 5 Stars
"Extinction Journals," by Jeremy Robert Johnson is so cool that upon finishing it, I walked out of my apartment and kicked a tree until it collapsed. Then I screamed. Some neighbors came out and complained, but I simply shrugged and lent them this incredible little book. Their screams now fill the night and not a single tree within five miles is left standing.
Let me start off by saying that Mr. Johnson's short story "The Sharp-Dressed Man at the End of the Line" is quite possibly my favorite short story, ever. In it, a man named Dean makes a suit out of cockroaches and summarily survives a nuclear holocaust and kills the Twinkie-suit wearing president. If this is too awesome for you, I'm sure Nicholas Sparks has some new heartwarming tale, just a click away.
The book picks up where the story left off, and right from the beginning I was hooked. The weirdness escalates, but Johnson's genius lies in his ability to inject just enough off-hand, real-world knowledge to allow you to suspend your disbelief when you're introduced to fishy chariot-gods and a naked love interest covered in ants.
Johnon's writing is frenzied, hilarious, and at times very beautiful. His incredibly sharp style is unrivaled by any young up-and-coming author, and is truly stunning.
The book has its shortcomings, the main issue being that the breakneck pace leads to an underdeveloped villian and a not quite fully realized relationship between Dean and the ant girl. Johnson doesn't seem to want to let up, and while this works for most of the book, it left me wanting to know more about these two characters.
Which leads me to think that maybe (despite Johson's thought in the back of the book) there should be a sequel. I loved these characters, and I would love to see the weirdness continue.
"Extinction Journals" is pure imagination. I have to say I enjoyed it immensely from start to finish. This is a funny, scary, disgusting, and body rockin' little novel. Five stars, easily.
Summary of Extinction Journals
"Jeremy Robert Johnson's novella of the apocalypse is a supremely weird reading experience, sitting somewhere between Chuck Palahniuk and John Wyndham. Extinction Journals is a hybrid, a mutant child of 1950's paranoia and contemporary dystopia. Bleak, funny, apocalyptic and affecting, it stays with you long after you've finished it."--THE ZONE(UK)You can survive a nuclear blast.
All you need is some luck, and maybe a customized business suit coated in cockroaches. It could work. At least that's what Dean believed before the bombs actually dropped and his suit led him to murder a Very Important Man at the foot of a blackened obelisk.
Now D.C. is looking awfully empty.Life on Earth is pretty much coming to an end.All of which leaves Dean with a single question-"What now?" The answer to that question will take him on an uncanny voyage across a newly nuclear America where he must confront the problems associated with loneliness, radiation, love, and an ever-evolving cockroach suit with a mind of its own.
Dean's bizarre adventures mark the last chronicle of human existence, the final entries in our species' own...
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