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What the Reviewers Are Saying About Blowing Up
Review by Lisabet Sarai (GoodReads Reviewer) 5 STARS
I chose to review this book because I know it’s difficult to find readers for short fiction. I didn’t have any expectations, which is fortunate, because this volume would have violated them – whatever they were. Blowing Up doesn’t fit well into any category. A mixture of satire and science fiction, spiritual pondering and scatological polemics, the book is utterly original.
Many of the stories are deeply disturbing. Mr. Mitchell does not seem to have a high opinion of humanity, or of himself for that matter. Nevertheless, his artistry impressed me, and when I finally finished reading, I felt surprisingly good despite having been raked over the emotional coals.
Naturalbri's Reviews 5 STARS
If you are in need of some good, tongue-in-cheek and honest humour, this book is exactly what you want! I went in thinking that it would be a good laugh and great for read during a long drive, but was left in waves of intense laughter and found myself telling m husband about sections to share the fun.
Yes, it takes a hard look at the world around us, really making us stop to think, but also making us wonder about what is really happening next to us or in the next room. You see the view of many people and things, through the eyes of an honest person, with a pinch of tell it like it is. Truly a book to really enjoy.
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Novels
Heavy Load (a laundromance)
Boston Jonson in Murder by Burger
Heavy Load (a laundromance)
The world's first laundromance draws three strangers (two men and a woman), each with a heavy load of emotional laundry, together on a Saturday morning in the biggest, coolest laundromat in town. It's also the only sentient building on earth, and it dives into the very souls of its three customers and tells their stories. By the end of the story, the contact each of the characters has made with each other helps to clean the dirty laundry of their lives...even though they have not spoken a word to each other.
The War Bug
Boston Jonson in Murder by Burger
Heavy Load (a laundromance)
In just a few hours, Abner Hayes' wife and daughter are going to die, and the only way he can save their lives is to team up with a deadly computer virus and travel through time and space in a virtual universe that itself has only hours to live. Through suicidal game worlds, virtual landscapes that threaten to devour the unwary, and a series of insidious cyber traps, Abner and the virus must stay one step ahead of sinister forces that will stop at nothing to destroy his family in order to steal their incredible secret. Spliced with dark humor and intricate characters, The War Bug is a non-stop roller coaster thriller into a terrifying future.
Boston Jonson in Murder by Burger
Boston Jonson in Murder by Burger
Boston Jonson in Murder by Burger
In the late 21st Century, A body is found in the headquarters of the world's largest fast food franchise, Barto Burger, creators of the world's first completely cloned hamburger. The president of the company, Gansheng Barto, has apparently eaten himself to death on his own burgers. Is it really suicide, or is it murder by burger. It's time to bring in Boston Jonson, crime consultant extraordinaire, to use his unorthodox mixture of Zen, insults, and hula hula shirts to unravel a startling mystery. With this rubbing alcohol-swilling sidekick, the beautiful dark-eyed Marlee Dunn, Boston dives into a jungle of underground catacombs, mad scientists, homicidal public relations managers, gargoyles, and a corporate world gone mad with genetic engineering, cloning and cruelty to old people.
Boston Jonson in Murder by Coffee
Boston Jonson in Murder by Coffee
Boston Jonson in Murder by Burger
When a nasty little plague of people turning into stone in coffee shops around the city threatens the bottom line of the Coffee Cartels and their highly addictive designer coffees, investigative consultant, Boston Jonson, is tossed into a world where everyone is out to either admire him or kill him, a world of annoying weirdoes who are probably better off turned into stone.
Oops...this is actually a novella.
Boston Jonson in Murder by Art
Boston Jonson in Murder by Coffee
Boston Jonson in Murder by Art
It's 2060. In Backstreet Records, a brooding audiophile thinks murder. Upstairs at Studio4Ward where skulls, dreams and beer cans are the stuff of art, 300 pounds of human sculpture dangles dead from the wall. It's time to call in the notorious super sleuth Boston Jonson to smoke out the murderer with insults and Zen.
Oops...this is actually a novella.
Back Again from Double Dragon Publishing
If homicidal marketing managers, angry Italian ghosts, Bolshevik uprisings in your desktop, people who think they’re trees and naked pagan women on a mission to save the universe make you feel like you want to be somewhere else, then don’t buy this book. Don’t even think about it. It will hurt your Mary Poppins sensibilities.
But if you’re into weird humor, vain attempts at slapstick violence, fast-paced stories that lead to nowhere good, then Team Player is your kind of reading.
(Cover art by Brock Parks)
In this sequel to The War Bug, Cassie Hayes is the idol of the universe.
For a thousand years, she's been triumphant in the Reality Wars, a deadly series of real and virtual games played every 100 years and broadcast throughout the galaxies. But Cassie, a sentient software program, is tormented by the death of her virtual mother after her human father abandoned them 2000 years earlier.
Now he's back...just in time to abandon her again as he goes off to save the universe with the help of a computer virus that thinks it's Buddha.
Reviews
Writing Hurts Like Hell: How to Write a Novel
You can write a novel.
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