Buzz Kill, David Sosnowski
Buzz Kill, David Sosnowski
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Buzz Kill

Author: David Sosnowski

Narrator: Lauren Ezzo

Unabridged: 14 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/28/2020

Synopsis

“Along with the almost satirical rendering of the world, the lovely writing, and engaging plot, the characters of George and Pandora are brilliant.” —BooklistPandora Lynch lives in Alaska with her single dad, an online therapist for Silicon Valley’s brightest and squirreliest. Homeschooled by computer and a self-taught hacker, Pandora is about to enter high school to learn how to be normal. That’s the plan at least.NorCal runaway George Jedson is a hacker too—one who leaves the systems he attacks working better than before. After being scooped up by a social media giant, will George go legit—or pull off the biggest hack ever? Not even his therapist knows for sure, but maybe the headshrinker’s daughter…After meeting in cyberspace, the two young hackers combine their passions to conceive a brainchild named BUZZ. Can this baby AI learn to behave, or will it be like its parents and think outside the box?With a hilarious and deeply empathetic narrative voice, this elegiac and unapologetically irreverent novel is both humorous and tragic without ever taking itself too seriously.

About David Sosnowski

David Sosnowski has worked as a gag writer, fireworks salesman, telephone pollster, university writing instructor, and environmental protection specialist, while living in cities as varied as Washington, DC; Detroit, Michigan; and Fairbanks, Alaska. He is the author of three previous critically acclaimed novels, Rapture, Vamped, and, most recently, Happy Doomsday. For more about David, visit www.wingznfangz.com.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bradley

This novel punches a lot of my buttons and tweaks a lot of my pet mental projects in a great way, but surprisingly so. I simply chose it on Netgalley based on the cover! Shame on me, right?! It looked funny. So what did I get? Some good humor? Yes! But this is almost incidental to the main plot. Inde......more

Goodreads review by Mike

This was a difficult one to rate, and I finally went with my gut; the three-star rating partly reflects the fact that it was such a downer, which is not to my taste. (The title turned out to be accurate in a couple of ways that took me unpleasantly by surprise, though it's not like I wasn't warned a......more

Goodreads review by Pamela

I was given a copy of this book in return for an honest review. After reading other reviews, they seem to mostly cover the plot so I won't repeat what others have already thoroughly done. I will get to the point: the review. I have to admit that the first several chapters were slow for me. Perhaps t......more

Goodreads review by Henry

David Sosnowski is an interesting author whose first novel is one of my favorite books. His current tale is a dark Buzz Kill (hard from 47 North) in which the ending is shown by the prologue. Sixteen-year-old George Jedson had been hacking and living in the San Francisco public library when he hacke......more

Quotes

“Sosnowski (Happy Doomsday) fuses philosophical pessimism with humor and makes bearable explorations of human extinction. In today’s cultural crisis such singular vision is rare amid a literature churning with despair. Readers favoring Chuck Palahniuk, Ottessa Moshfegh, and Salingeresque dark absurdity will relish.” —Library Journal (starred review)“Along with the almost satirical rendering of the world, the lovely writing, and engaging plot, the characters of George and Pandora are brilliant—fascinating, tough characters who, through their own skills, are able to bend the world to meet their needs.” —Booklist

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