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    Outrageous Fortune

    Written by Tim Scott

    Narrated by Kirby Heyborne

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    In this outrageously funny, outrageously inventive debut, one of the most outrageously talented new writers to break onto the sci-fi scene in decades asks the most loaded question of all…

    "Don't you hate it when this happens?"

    …that's what the business card asks Jonny X67, dream architect to the rich and jaded. It's all the thieves who stole his house left behind. And if that weren't bad enough, a saleswoman named Caroline E61 drops from the sky to sell him a set of encyclopedias and won't take no for an answer. Can his luck get any worse?

    In this rip-roaring roller-coaster ride through a brilliantly imagined future of paranoid absurdity, Jonny X will learn the answer soon enough when he falls afoul of a lunatic motorcycle gang nicknamed the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, a relentless Belgian assassin, and his own irate girlfriend. Traversing a cityscape whose neighborhoods are organized by musical genres, running into joke-telling elevators and holographic computer viruses, Jonny is about to learn what a nightmare it's going to be to get his old life back in a reality warping faster than the speed of the imagination. Outrageous Fortune heralds a marvelous new talent sure to be delightfully altering the minds of readers for years to come.


    From the Trade Paperback edition.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateMay 29, 2007
    ISBN9780739343098
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    Outrageous Fortune
    Author

    Tim Scott

    Tim Scott has learned to follow instructions, but seldom does it without at least some resistance. So when told by his editor that the final thing missing from his first book was the author bio, he pointed out that since the book is a memoir, the entire thing is an author bio. So here we are. That quick irreverence and offbeat command of the obvious makes Tim a favorite among people looking for a story or two, and since he doesn't have time to tell them to everyone, he had to write some down. Just Robbed a Bank is the best of the lot. Through his stories, you will get to know the good and bad and the highs and lows of being a bank robber in modern-well, almost modern-America.

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    • 1/5
      If you like your sci-fi surreal, lavishly sprinkled with gratuitous profanity and lacking any discernible plot or character development, you may enjoy this book. As for me, the latter three of those characteristics alternately irritated and bored me, and the humour didn't appeal; I abandoned it at page 80.
    • 1/5
      If you like your sci-fi surreal, lavishly sprinkled with gratuitous profanity and lacking any discernible plot or character development, you may enjoy this book. As for me, the latter three of those characteristics alternately irritated and bored me, and the humour didn't appeal; I abandoned it at page 80.
    • 1/5
      If you like your sci-fi surreal, lavishly sprinkled with gratuitous profanity and lacking any discernible plot or character development, you may enjoy this book. As for me, the latter three of those characteristics alternately irritated and bored me, and the humour didn't appeal; I abandoned it at page 80.
    • 3/5
      I read this book a couple of years ago, I enjoyed it. The premise stayed with me. So, when I re-read the book. On second reading it was good, and I enjoyed the first 3/4 of it or so. I like the randomness, the way nothing doesn't seem to connect. Where this book went wrong is at the last 1/4 of the book. The answers are found, but seems so completely preposterous that ___ would ___ ___ to___ ____ ____ (the blanks give the whole plot away so fill it in after you read the book).
    • 5/5
      The world buidling in this novel is simply kick ass. Terry Prachett better look out because Tim Scott's debut novel is funnier and more clever than any discworld book I remember reading as a youth. This is another novel I've had to share simply because it is so damn clever and funny. A great book to read if you need a quick pick me up!
    • 3/5
      Nice ideas, but it took too long for the plot to make sense, and the twist at the end was disappointing.
    • 5/5
      Hilarious, reminded me a bit of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy but without the space travel.