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Pretty Little Things To Fill Up The Void [Kindle Edition]

Simon Logan
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In a city of chemical warehouses and entropic factories, viral DJ's and anarchist skatepunks share the streets with nihilistic video game junkies and makeshift revolutionaries, whilst pirate broadcasters battle against one another and renegade paramedics hijack the dead and dying for profit.

Pretty Little Things to Fill Up the Void is the story of four characters and their constantly-intertwining lives as they search for meaning and purpose in a place that seems to deny either.

Elisabeth Afterlife, a renegade documentarist, haunted by the ghost of a bloody girl; Catalina Rodriguez, a fiery teenager and thrill-seeker; and the artists-lovers Camille and Auguste. And alongside all of them there is the mysterious Shiva, lurking in her complex of workshops, and moving devious chemical hands that will soon encompass all of the characters in an explosive point of singularity ...

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  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 460 KB
  • Print Length: 316 pages
  • Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
  • Language English
  • ASIN: B004P5NS00
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  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #502,812 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Exceptional 20 Jan 2008
Format:Paperback
It's like mixing a cocktail of some dubious chemical, wearing welder's goggles and with the acid burn of your ingredients slowing searing its way up your arms. Take one drachm Brian Wood's DMZ and CHANNEL ZERO, a hundred cc's of Kathe Koja's SKIN and strip back the oxides off some of Simon's own ROHYPNOL BRIDES and NOTHING IS INFLAMMABLE, and you have this: a nightmare near-future chemical-fetish world where everything is rubble and broken and rusted, populated by the razor fringes of society and constantly reinventing itself in a nihilistic, furious shriek of death and anger.

The prose and descriptions are barbed wire around your throat. Some elements of the story were genuinely uncomfortable to read, so far off the track of what, in these terrorism-defined days, is socially acceptable, and that's a GOOD thing -- if ever there was a book to tear you out of your comfort zone and make you question the validity of your ideals and your conceptions of art, it's this one.

From the insanity of the train-riders (hanging onto the outside of a massive toxic waste carrier at 100mph, with death inches over your head, simply for the thrill of it) to junk-city galleries, burned and collapsed and seething with struggling, broken artists and their equally insane, focative art; from the burning, war-torn city streets where SWAT choppers shoot on sight and the taggers and boarders scuttle like cockroaches in the shadows of their wake to the sundered warehouses and the data-pirates, hackers and purveyors; from Elisabeth Afterlife's hell of self-denial and subsequent journey towards something that might be hope (if that's what you can call it) to the inimical, monstrous and brutally compelling Shiva (whose rationale makes a hideous kind of sense, which is just ONE of the reasons you'll come out of this book feeling as filth-stained as the oil- and rust-choked streets and buildings)... it's a ride into a world you didn't know existed, but which is right beneath your fingertips, as cracked and bloody and torn as they might be.

Industrial fiction doesn't get much better than this.
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Both Beautiful and Horrible 1 April 2008
By S. - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Paperback
At first I wasn't sure if Simon Logan's "industrial fiction" short-story style would adapt to a novel-length story. But it really does. While at first the story appears to follow three separate plotlines, they very quickly converge into one mosaic; past the halfway mark of the book there's an incredible 'velocity' to things that keeps you reading straight through to the finish.

To me, this is a novel of images. You don't so empathize with the characters so much as allow them to take you with them as they travel through their world. And many of the scenes are incredibly vivid; you won't look at trains, bombs, tortured artists, and dilapidated urban rec centers the same again.
A NOVEL OF SELF-DESTRUCTION 13 Sep 2011
By chrisjets1975 - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
"A novel of self-destruction" This is the first line you read after the title. Be prepared, because it is an amazing journey. The gritty realism of early David Fincher films, the in your face prose of Chuck Palahniuk,Simon Logan fills his novel with real people in desperate situations that you can feel for. Many story lines told through hard hitting chapters grabs you by the throat and doesn't let up.
I picked this one up because the title intrigued me, and i liked the genre attributed to this wonderful book. "Industrial Fiction", "fetish-core" never heard of em? Neither had i, BUT i'm glad i took the chance and gave it a spin. I instantly bought up all his other works after reading this. It's that good.
Like an insane car ride where you are barely in control, the story unfolds at breakneck speed to a shattering conclusion. READ THIS BOOK! Get lost in the imagery, the dialogue, the passion.
This was easily one of the best novels i have read in a long while.
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