- Paperback: 315 pages
- Publisher: Sceptre (21 Aug 1997)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 034069680X
- ISBN-13: 978-0340696804
- Product Dimensions: 22.8 x 14.4 x 3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,416,490 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The end of the millennium is just a couple of years away, and folks, it's getting pretty insane out there. Survivalists are stockpiling weapons in the hills as they wait for the black helicopters that herald a new world order; Heaven's Gate cultists try and return to the mother ship via poison-laced apple sauce while members of the Solar Temple believe their suicides on Earth will result in a better life on the planet Sirius. Can it get any stranger? In Douglas Rushkoff's novel, Ecstasy Club, it can and does. Rushkoff's club is an abandoned piano factory in Oakland, California, where members of a small group of idealists hold round-the-clock raves even as they seek to combine computer technology, mind-altering substances and New Age spirituality to create a method of time travel.
Along with end-of-the-world scenarios, the millennium brings with it a heavy dose of conspiracy theory, and Ecstasy Club has its fair share. Once narrator Zach Levi and his merry band actually succeed in "breaking time" online, they are beset by menacing government agents, religious zealots and a host of other special interest groups who are out to shut them down. So while we're all waiting for 1999, what better way to pass the time than with Douglas Rushkoff's Ecstasy Club? --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Banding together in a decrepit warehouse, a group of disenfranchised twentysomethings explore the ultimate frontier: cyberspace. Part techie heaven, part 24-hour rave, the Ecstasy Club is an electronic playground where young hackers and esoteric spiritualists strive to create a new utopia.
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Format:Paperback
The Ecstacy Club tells a colourful and interesting story of a group of clubbers in their twenties who try to change their lives by creating a massive rave club and forming a new drug- and technology-enhanced society for themselves. Predictably enough, the naivety of the group's idealistic ambitions soon becomes apparent, and their new society starts to fall apart as a result of disruptive influences from inside and outside their community.
Some of the more highbrow readers will find that this book is not to their taste. And of course, it's all nonsense. But it's a vividly depicted and satisfying nonsense, which kept me engaged from the first page.
Format:Paperback
This book was an awesome read in a style i havent come across before. It suited my black humour and really opened up an insight to a new way of thinking. There is alot of philosophical terminology which im sure went straight over me, however this did not spoil the read and as a result is prompting me to read it again. Seeing as i only just finished it this afternoon and it's now only 5.30 i hope it acounts for something. It envolves a modern day story luine which at face value will keep most people happy even if you don't get the rest of it.Dont give up if you find it hard going because it will reward you and gives you a hole new perspective on life and manipulation.
Format:Paperback
Brilliant book that really gets you thinking. I started it after picking it up by accident, not knowing what to expect, and I couldn't put it down until I finished it. Can easily be read more than once.
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I'll never get that time back
I read this when I was 19; a curious young maverick with a glint in my eyeand fire in my belly. I thought it would be clever to read a book aboutdrugs. I was grossly mistaken. Read more
Published on 27 April 2004 by A. Sharratt
rubbish
This is a terrible novel. The characters are wafer-thin and are never developed. The protaganist is supposedly totally immersed in the cult but at the same time completely aware of... Read more
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