The Loom Of Ruin
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.36 (829 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0984807802 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 265 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-09-13 |
| Language | : | English |
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Xenotees said I've never read a book like this.. This book reads like a movie. The author is so descriptive, you can easily picture everything unfolding, without being able to predict what will happen- just a couple of aspects that put this book in my top 10 list. There are many more reasons to love this book, but you should just read it, & see for yourself. The humor is spot on, and the ending is priceless. Highly Recommended!. "Superb work" according to Mr P. Ive been a fan of his work forever, nice to see something longform. His writing is even better at this length: the character development and layering were fantastic. Can't wait to see what his followup is. Enthusiasts would do well to be on the lookout for Exploded View Quarterly, Sam's upcoming literary mag with Jesse Pearson.. "A great first novel" according to Mej. When rock folks write books it typically reminds me of actors who announce their new record release. I immediately tend to scoff and think this is a bad idea. I firmly stand corrected with Loom of Ruin.McPheeters has created a crazy cast of characters, all of which are wildly neurotic, but completely hysterical. Loom of Ruin is a very funny book. Sam's writing is very stripped down. There's no self indulgence in his prose, but the world he has created is anything but boring.Trang Yang just might be the angriest man alive. He owns a fleet of Chevron gas stations in the LA area and he
Trang Yang is an angry, angry, angry man, neurologically incapable of any emotion but rage. Not the LAPD, who have long since granted him full immunity. He's also L.A.'s most successful gas station franchise owner. But no one can quite seem to figure out what makes him tick. Not his boss, who scrutinizes him with covert psychologists. Not the corporate spies who infiltrate his stations. And certainly not the encroaching FBI, who know only that Trang is involved in something big and dangerous and that time is running out.
"Disturbingly entertaining" - Philadelphia Weekly"Exquisitely detailed, dark and humorous Los Angeles fiction about the angriest man in the world." - San Francisco Bay Guardian"His tone is about 60 percent deadpan, 40 percent dead serious -- which is approximately the ratio that makes his new novel, 'Loom of Ruin,' so funny." - The Washington Post"It's packed with so much action, violence and black comedy you'll swear you stumbled into a movie written by Kurt Vonnegut" - LA Weekly"In the universe of The Loom of Ruin, human society has become a malevolent machine that's not just indifferent to our happiness but actively working to prevent it, as though it had not only become somehow sentient but also discovered that it hated us." - Chicago Reader
He lives in Pomona, CA with his wife. . He is the former lead singer of Born Against, Men's Recovery Project, and Wrangler Brutes, and the founder of Vermiform Records. His columns, essays, profiles, and short stories have appeared in The American Prospect, Chicago Reader, OC Weekly, Punk Planet, The Stranger, Vice, and The Village Voice. The Loom Of R