Great All the Way to the Ending--Literally

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	• Bad Monkeys Matt Ruff HarperCollins, 2007 - 230 pages average customer review:based on 52 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Great Read, Disappointing Finish

This was a really good book. For reals, I loved it. I would have given it a perfect score, but I had to knock off a star because I just couldn't buy the ending. I was like "Oh, COME ON! Really?! You're really going to pull that trick?!" And, to be honest, I saw it coming, but was hoping that it wouldn't come to that. You'll know it when you read it. But I am not going to let the last twenty pages of this book spoil the rest of it for me. It was awesome. Still definitely worth the price of admission. Buy this book. Fin.

Great All the Way to the Ending--Literally

Okay, let's start out at the beginning. This book was amazing in every aspect, from the plotline (A secret organization of assasins?! Classic, but great.) to the characters (A lady that acts schizophrenic for her own sake even though she is really quite sane makes an appearance.) to... about five pages before the ending. (Jane has her NC gun pulled on our main villain, and then...)

Let me tell you of my experience the ten minutes after finishing the book: nearly crying, I searched through the remaining (blank) pages, convinced that this was some sort of joke, that the real ending was sure to come. The final twist was a baseless, cliched character-destroying move that had me crying, "Matt Ruff, what are you thinking?!"

In the end, I had to write a new ending and tape it to the back of the book to put my broken heart to rest.

'Course, the book was still amazing. Until it ended. Read it, PLEASE read it, but just stop at the point I mentioned earlier. Please.

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Solid Read

While I generally read novels very slowly it took me to time at all to finish "Bad Monkeys". The slow revelation style of narrative sunk its teeth in and would not let go. I came to Amazon to grab Ruff's other books.

Highly recommend.

Compelling, fun and twisty

I read the book quickly as it was compelling, with fun and engaging twists, nice sci-fi strangeness, a wry tone and a fun ending. Highly recommended.

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Jane Charlotte has been arrested for murder.

She tells police that she is a member of a secret organization devoted to fighting evil; her division is called the Department for the Final Disposition of Irredeemable Persons?"Bad Monkeys" for short.

This confession earns Jane a trip to the jail's psychiatric wing, where a doctor attempts to determine whether she is lying, crazy?or playing a different game altogether. What follows is one of the most clever and gripping novels you'll ever read.

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