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Go-Go Girls of the Apocalypse

by Victor Gischler

3.72 · rating details · 644 ratings · 161 reviews

Mortimer Tate was a recently divorced insurance salesman when he holed up in a cave on top of a mountain in Tennessee and rode out the end of the world. Go-Go Girls of the Apocalypse begins nine years later, when he emerges into a bizarre landscape filled with hollow reminders of an America that no longer exists. The highways are lined with abandoned automobiles; electrici...more

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Published July 8th 2008 by Touchstone

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Feb 09, 2009

Siri rated it

"Go-Go Girls of the Apocalypse!" I thought to myself. "What could possibly go wrong with this book?" MANY THINGS.

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Nov 02, 2008

Raegan Butcher rated it

This was one of the funniest, most irreverent and entertaining books I've read in years.

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Mar 29, 2009

Amy rated it

Shelves: 2009-books-read, adventure, post-apocalyptic

This book is complete garbage, and it's great. The quote from James Rollins on the front of the book says it all: "Part Christopher Moore, part Quentin Tarantino, Victor Gischler is a raving, badass genius." I'd personally say that the story is a trashy rated R smash up of the television series "Jeremiah" and Cormac McCarthy's The Road.

Mortimer sees the end of the world coming and maxes out 3 credit cards to buy enough supplies to see him through the impending ap...more

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Apr 21, 2009

Agathafrye rated it

Shelves: scifi

I got into a discussion with my friend Alex about this book when we were both about 60 pages in. She was telling me that she didn't think she could finish it because it was so irritatingly sexist. I was more willing to give it the benefit of the doubt, but after finishing it... yeah, it was pretty sexist. However, I still enjoyed the imaginative apocalyptic scenarios, and there were some interesting characters in there too. It's clear that this author spent a lot of time fantasizing about wh...more

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Aug 08, 2011

John Mcconahey added it

What happens after the apocalypse? This is one man’s story.

Mortimer Tate is a Spring City, Tennessee insurance salesman who decides he will not sign his final divorce decree. He stocks an amazing amount of supplies in a cave on a mountaintop and goes into hiding from his wife. After massive earthquakes and nuclear detonations totally disrupt the entire earth, he waits about nine years before deciding to come down the mountain and see what’s happening. Those who remain have self-preservation ...more

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Dec 16, 2010

Nathan rated it

Shelves: read-2010, sci-fi

When I stumbled upon this book I thought it looked ridiculous and fun. The concept of a post apocalyptic civilization run by a go-go club just seemed too good to pass up. I was pleased with what I found. The book is funny, exciting, and cute. The plot makes sense, the character motivations are understandable and easy to identify with, and, surprisingly, it manages to throw in just enough substance to give it a point greater than just fun. No I really mean that last part. If you just finish...moreWhen I stumbled upon this book I thought it looked ridiculous and fun. The concept of a post apocalyptic civilization run by a go-go club just seemed too good to pass up. I was pleased with what I found. The book is funny, exciting, and cute. The plot makes sense, the character motivations are understandable and easy to identify with, and, surprisingly, it manages to throw in just enough substance to give it a point greater than just fun. No I really mean that last part. If you just finished, go back and read the quote before the epilogue. It puts the entire book in perspective.

The book very well may be sexist. But it's not as entirely, overwhelmingly sexist as some of the reviewers want to make it out to be. Yes there are women working in a strip club. They also wield guns, kick the shit out of guy in hand to hand combat, and take care of themselves. Yes they do it in bikinis, but don't doubt who is in control.

I also appreciated that the character motivations that didn't make sense (like the main characters driving need to see/rescue his wife after 10 years) were explained in a way. Our main character realizes that his desire to find her is a little absurd. He doesn't let the fact that what he wants doesn't make sense get in the way of what he wants, but he at least admits that it's odd.

I really enjoyed reading this book and it wasn't nearly as throw away as I expected it to be. I went in with very low expectations and was pleasantly surprised by the humor, wit, and general content.

As a final thought, for those who have heard me rant about the human condition in end of the world novels, I very much enjoyed the way civilization came together in the book. It wasn't perfect, it didn't happen overnight, but it was based on solid concepts: money, resource control, and power. The "rulers" weren't evil, but neither were they epitomes of justice, foresight, and humanitarianism. They treated their people well (for the most part) because it was in their best interest to. It was well done. (less)

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Mar 25, 2010

David Barbee rated it

The blurb on the cover of Go-Go Girls compares Victor Gischler to Christopher Moore. Besides a sense of humor, there isn’t much similarity. Moore’s work is more absurd and less gritty than Go-Go Girls, which is a story about the end of the world, but it takes place entirely in the South. Thankfully, Victor Gischler is from the South, so he’s able to pull this off.

By happenstance, Mortimer Tate was perfectly prepared for the apocalypse, holed up on a mountain with tons of supplies....moreThe blurb on the cover of Go-Go Girls compares Victor Gischler to Christopher Moore. Besides a sense of humor, there isn’t much similarity. Moore’s work is more absurd and less gritty than Go-Go Girls, which is a story about the end of the world, but it takes place entirely in the South. Thankfully, Victor Gischler is from the South, so he’s able to pull this off.

By happenstance, Mortimer Tate was perfectly prepared for the apocalypse, holed up on a mountain with tons of supplies. After nine years of complete solitude, he comes down the mountain to see what society’s up to.

These days there are plenty of different versions of the post-apocalypse genre. And for me, most of the time, they’re too simplistic. The post-apocalypse always seems to have a medieval theme or an old west theme, as if the survivors of the apocalypse just adopt old ways of living now that society has been shattered. Gischler does this, but it’s not annoying. It works. The story deals with how a very specific region of the country has evolved after the apocalypse, and Gischler adds just enough humor and absurdity to make it actually believable.

Gischler’s post-apocalyptic South has an Old West structure, but with twists all along the way. Two factions have risen to restore civilization. One is a chain of saloons spread across the region and the other is an army of Nazi-like villains based out of the ruins of Atlanta. They’ve both basically risen to power through bootlegging. Mortimer Tate has to navigate between these two factions, make a few allies, and find his ex-wife. And there are a few psychos and cannibals lurking about, by the way.

This all would seem too ridiculous if it were played off seriously. But like Christopher Moore, Gischler keeps things lighthearted. Like a classic western, Mortimer’s a stand-up guy, his friends are loyal, and the villains are all scumbags. But Gischler doesn’t let it stay that simple. Mortimer is still a regular guy in a lot of ways (he was an insurance agent before the apocalypse) with plenty of flaws (a lot of transitions involve Mortimer being knocked unconscious for one reason or another). And the social commentary is always honest and never idealized.

Go-Go Girls of the Apocalypse is full of action, drinking, violence, sex, and western-style adventure. But it never comes off as typical Southern redneckery. Gischler delivers everything with a touch of humor that makes you just want to enjoy the ride.
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Jul 20, 2009

Danceswithwords rated it

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. I thought I was in some trouble when one of the blurbs on the cover called this novel "Tarantinoesque," because with the exception of Pulp Fiction, I haven't really gotten into the Tarantino oeuvre. Perhaps it's an accurate description; Go-Go Girls of the Apocalypse seems to zigzag between some beautifully detailed and moving descriptions of post-apocalyptic life and loneliness and some kind of slightly weird and adolescent wish fulfillment in which the best hope for the restoration of...more

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Aug 09, 2011

Kara Jorges rated it

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Since the world started falling apart right around the same time as Mortimer Tate’s marriage, he was well prepared. He maxed out three credit cards and built a cabin by a mountaintop cave, and rode out the apocalypse there. Nine years later, when he has to kill three men who wander into his territory, he realizes he misses the rest of the world and it’s time to come off the mountain and see what’s left of it.

He finds that the world is a changed place, and very dangerous. When the ...moreSince the world started falling apart right around the same time as Mortimer Tate’s marriage, he was well prepared. He maxed out three credit cards and built a cabin by a mountaintop cave, and rode out the apocalypse there. Nine years later, when he has to kill three men who wander into his territory, he realizes he misses the rest of the world and it’s time to come off the mountain and see what’s left of it.

He finds that the world is a changed place, and very dangerous. When the first person he comes across attempts to enslave him and steal his stash, he is quickly awakened to the new reality. He makes a friend in Buffalo Bill, a cowboy complete with a hat and six-shooters, and the two of them make their way to what’s left of Mort’s old home so they can find what became of his wife Anne. There isn’t much order in the world, but the little in existence is known as Joey Armageddon’s Sassy A Go-Go, a place where a man can get a cold beer, a lap dance, and anything else that’s currently up for trade. Without an infrastructure, electricity is powered by slaves on stationary bikes, and the train service, the Muscle Express, is powered by big, beefy men on a hand cart. Most women work as prostitutes, and are bought and sold. Cannibals roam the wilderness, and now, a barbarian overlord known as the Red Czar is poised to destroy Joey Armageddon and his empire. Just as Mortimer reaches the epiphany that he doesn’t need to find his wife anymore, he is sent on an impossible mission to find her and save Joey Armageddon’s empire from the barbarian hordes of the Red Stripes.

Though the violence sometimes made me cringe, this book was sheer fun from beginning to end. It answers the question of what could happen if the world as we know it was destroyed and the planet was plunged into a new Dark Age of barbarism. It shows pockets of civilization and people clinging to what’s left of the old world as they make their way in the new. It does all of this with a wry sense of humor, wrapped around a group of unique characters it was impossible not to like. It was easy to picture life in the post-apocalyptic world. I don’t know if Gischler does sequels, but I would definitely read the next chapter of life in Mortimer Tate’s world. I didn’t want to leave it when it ended.
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Feb 22, 2011

James rated it

Author Victor Gischler put together a book that reads like an R-rated Douglas Adams novel complete with Adams' humor, yet at times a bitter accounting of Man's last days on earth. This post-apocalyptic novel has a catchy title for sure, and the hot woman with an assault rifle on the cover would make any red-blooded American want to read this book.

There are so many crazy coincidences and odd happenings that make the world end that you would not fathom it. It breaks the envelope of credu...moreAuthor Victor Gischler put together a book that reads like an R-rated Douglas Adams novel complete with Adams' humor, yet at times a bitter accounting of Man's last days on earth. This post-apocalyptic novel has a catchy title for sure, and the hot woman with an assault rifle on the cover would make any red-blooded American want to read this book.

There are so many crazy coincidences and odd happenings that make the world end that you would not fathom it. It breaks the envelope of credulity, for sure. A terrorist nukes Washington and a major earthquake ruptures the west coast and at the same time World War III happens in China, Russia and Europe. Everything goes to hell all at once.

Except for our former insurance salesman and (we think) divorced husband who has been holed up for nine years in a well-stocked cave somewhere in Tennessee, a state that still has some sense of normalcy -- if you don't count the Red Stripe gangs and the slaves on bikes.

Interesting society: One side ruled by The Red Czar, who rules with an iron hand has gathered all the gangs into one large gangland. On the other side we have Johnny Armageddon and his Go Go clubs, that are really nothing more than a "titty & bar" show (which Johnny denies of course).

The book makes interesting premise as to the different kinds of society here -- capitalism on Johnny's side and a military dictatorship on the other. Each plans the others' demise and Mortimer is the pawn that both sides attempt to use to wipe out the other.

At times the story is tedious, especially the relationships between Ann, his former wife, and Mortimer. Also the subplot of slavery, with men riding bicycles to generate electricity was kinda silly -- there were solar panels around and someone was starting to refine oil again -- as was the convoluted war between the two factions towards the end of the book.

It's not a bad book by any means and reads rather quickly, if somewhat violently. A bit of graphic sex and lots and lots of drinking and vomiting ensue between plot points, just to warn ya!

Are we heading to a future where the buck rules and the girls are hot? Read the book and find out!

Other Novels by Victor Gischler:

To the Devil, My Regards
Shotgun Opera
The Deputy
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Mar 03, 2010

Lacey rated it

This book was a fun gun slinging fast paced book. There is never a dull moment. Which I guess there wouldnt be with the world as we know it ending.
Mort, his friend Bill and woman side kick Shelia make a romp through a fallen world. Their lives are much simpler and much harder than ours. Food is scarce, no oil, not much in the form of transportation, go-go girls, Freddy's horrible liquor, and canibals keep the 3 of them busy. They are on a quest to save the only piece of civilization t...more

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Mar 14, 2010

{dvc} rated it

Shelves: a-w

It's always a pleasure to know an author and get a chance to read their work. Victor is a Baton Rouge resident and a member of the 'video golf and beer night' gang that I keep company with here in the Red Stick. Read this book and imagine what it's like to spend an evening yelling at a video golf machine and playing the worst Neil Diamond songs you can find to keep competition for said machine at a minimum with Mr. Gischler and you readily see why this is one of the highlights of my week.
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Oct 18, 2009

John rated it

Shelves: sci-fi

Was browsing the SciFi shelf at Barnes and Noble, when this book caught my eye. When I plucked off the shelf and read the book jacket it just sounded too promising to pass up.

"Part Christopher Moore, part Quentin Tarantino, Victor Gischler is a raving, badass genius."--James Rollins, New York Times bestselling author of Map of Bones and Black Order (Hmm, I should check those out).

With a plug like that, Go-Go Girls had a lot to live up to. Well, it doesn't disapp...more

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Sep 30, 2009

Shedrick Pittman-Hassett rated it

Nine years after "The Fall" (a series of natural and man-made disasters that result in the collapse of civilization), Mortimer Tate emerges from his hidey-hole and kills the first person he encounters due to a case of mistaken intentions. Loneliness and an inexplicable need to find his estranged wife drive him to cross the post-apocalyptic South and learn how to survive in the violent new world that has emerged while he hid in his cave. As he struggles to make his way, he gets caught ...moreNine years after "The Fall" (a series of natural and man-made disasters that result in the collapse of civilization), Mortimer Tate emerges from his hidey-hole and kills the first person he encounters due to a case of mistaken intentions. Loneliness and an inexplicable need to find his estranged wife drive him to cross the post-apocalyptic South and learn how to survive in the violent new world that has emerged while he hid in his cave. As he struggles to make his way, he gets caught up in a suicide mission to save "Joey Armageddon's Sassy a Go-Go"...a chain of trading posts/go-go bars/hotels/gambling dens that represent the new civilization.

"Go-Go Girls" is a funny, violent bit of modern pulp fiction. One blurb describes this as a cross between Christopher Moore and Quentin Tarantino...which is apt, though I wish the author had Tarantino's ear for dialogue. The plot is tight and moves along at a good speed. There are some good laughs and the author displays a nice dry wit at times, coupled with over-the-top violence. The introduction of Ted, a strangely familiar guide, is particularly funny. The characters grow and adapt to the strange world that is violently trying to emerge from the ashes of catastrophe. There are no deep questions answered here about human nature and its ability and aptitude for destroying itself...it is all about guns, sexy women, and the pursuit of good coffee.

I've read some reviews that class this book as misogynistic or sexist. GGG is clearly not misogynistic...the female characters are realistic and display a degree of strength and practicality that Mortimer and the other male characters often do not. There is also some very strong smaller female roles that are presented in a positive light. However, the world presented is very much a man's world where women often have nothing to offer but their bodies in return for safety. I don't think that this situation is presented as sexist point of view but rather as part of the pulpy kitsch that the author is trying to invoke. There are no deep statements attempting to be made by this book, sexist or otherwise.

Overall, GGG was a fun ride that I can now say I enjoyed but probably won't need to revisit. Like a summer blockbuster, you're not left with much to chew on after the ride is over but you reveled in letting it all play out. (less)

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Sep 12, 2011

Jason (FNORDinc) rated it

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Shelves: reviewed-on-fnordinc, reviewed

I will keep this short and simple.

“[...] whether you’re fleeing violent rape gangs, remembering those lost loved ones, or daydreaming of a future where wild dogs no longer roam the streets, we hope you’ll keep making Jack Daniel’s your preferred beverage.”

If the above quote makes you smile a little, or want to grab a drink, this book is going to be right up your alley.

Victor Gischler really nailed this. The end of the world, gang rivalry juicers, booze drugs canniba...more

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May 02, 2011

Zach rated it

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Shelves: action, humor, post-apocolyptic-zombie

Overall okay. Best when author went with full bore crazy.

The problem is that the book vacilates between humor and bleak sci-fi; one moment you think you are reading Christopher Moore/Christopher Buckley and then it shifts to the Road.

Arguably the best part of the novel is when the characters near Atlanta and the author went with craziness the results are some wonderful flashes of comic brilliance including:
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Jun 05, 2011

Amy rated it

Shelves: post-apocalyptic, dark-comedy, humor

I'm officially a huge Gischler fan. There aren't a lot of ways to approach the fall of civilization as we know it, but doing so with wry, dark comedy never goes out of style. Gischler focuses his sardonic gaze on modern American life and examines the tragedy of both its existence and inevitable loss; following an Average Joe as he learns to navigate the post-apocalyptic U.S., the story manages to never take itself too seriously while treading on some very serious waters. Completed by the "b...more

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Oct 07, 2010

AJ Conroy marked it as to-read

Recommendation from NPR: Go-Go Girls of the Apocalypse is another picaresque, but don't go looking for sentiment here. Victor Gischler's novel tells the story of Mortimer Tate, who hid out in the woods as civilization collapsed and now emerges into a comically violent world. With his companions Buffalo Bill and Sheila, Mortimer journeys to the ruins of Atlanta, where the fate of what's left of humanity is about to be decided. Expect blood, strippers, beatings, killings and more blood.

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Oct 26, 2011

Rachel rated it

Appalling.
I kept reading in hope, but there is no female character in this book who is not a prostitute or a mentally ill nun. Even the male characters suffer rapidly changing motivations and an unreasonable willingness to agree to actions which will suit the plot. They lurch from one blood-soaked action scene to another, impervious to all but the most minor injuries.
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Sep 19, 2011

Veach Glines rated it

Recommends it for: immature teen boys

Fast paced non-humorous 'road story' containing a series of almost-tied-together vignettes centered around a small number of adolescent-boy-related themes:

Knives and guns are detailed and always needed, all women (from sexy waifs to ancient trolls) are whores and want to hump our hero and every other character is a less than two-dimensional baddy who deserves to have his brains moved as violently as possible from inside his skull to...anywhere else (which is kind-of a funny sentence,...more

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Oct 15, 2010

Sarah rated it

Shelves: 2010, fun-fiction

Words cannot adequately describe how abysmally awful, brainless, stupid, degrading, and boring this book is. It's as if a bunch of drunk, horny half-witted junior high boys mashed a bunch of elements from far greater end-of-the-world novels (and the wizard of oz) and tried unsuccessfully to make them funny with attempted witticisms and cartoonish blood and guts.

I was hoping that the title was tongue-in-cheek. Unfortunately, not the case. The friend that recommended this book a...more

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Sep 04, 2008

Scott Cupp rated it

Go, go. Read, read! Victor Gischler is a joy waiting to be discovered by mainstream America. This is THE ROAD as it probably should have been.

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Sep 05, 2010

David rated it

Shelves: thriller, science-fiction, american-literature

Pure exploitation trash with only one redeeming quality...it's a damn good read with minimal brain power needed. The only quibble I have is the trashy trope of going in search of a wife/ex-wife he'd abandoned 9 years before...and for some reason Mort just HAS to find her. That stretched my suspension of disbelief just a little too much. Good beach book or a good book any time literary fiction ain't cutting it and that book on quantum mechanics is still as attractive as an ex-wife on a KFC diet.
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May 06, 2009

Topher rated it

Shelves: post-apocalypse

I saw this one on the new fiction shelves at the library - not in with the science fiction books. A variety of events have come about, causing the end of civilization. At the same time, the main protagonist is trying to avoid getting a divorce by refusing to sign the paperwork; he hides out in a cave / cabin combo.....Nine years later, some men come walking by, the first people he's seen since moving up there. And, he kills them. By accident.

Amusing. A little twisted. More a comment ...more

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Feb 07, 2011

Jim rated it

Shelves: fiction, post-apocalyptic-dystopian

Road Warrior meets the Odyssey, with a hero a bit like wise-cracking, irreverent Harry of the Dredsen Files. Some may complain about sexism and violence, and we are not talking great literature here, but if you enjoy postapocalyptic fiction, then I suspect this book may be for you. There are glaring leaps in the storyline, and not a bit of implausibility, but overall it is a page-turning thrill that will satisfy anyone who likes shows such as The Walking Dead. Mortimer Tate ran away from divorce...more

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Jun 06, 2010

Jay Daze rated it

Shelves: sf, hated

Like a poster for a exploitative horror movie with a hot chick cradling her machine gun in her arms, this books brings in the punters with it's naughty title but fails to deliver well executed action, humour, or sexiness.

Instead we follow hapless Mortimer, ex-accountant, looking for his ex-wife in post-Apocalyptic America. I guess Mortimer: Accountant Avenger just wasn't going to sell as many books. The book is an easy read and I did finish it almost painlessly. Up until the las...moreLike a poster for a exploitative horror movie with a hot chick cradling her machine gun in her arms, this books brings in the punters with it's naughty title but fails to deliver well executed action, humour, or sexiness.

Instead we follow hapless Mortimer, ex-accountant, looking for his ex-wife in post-Apocalyptic America. I guess Mortimer: Accountant Avenger just wasn't going to sell as many books. The book is an easy read and I did finish it almost painlessly. Up until the last couple of chapters I was convinced this was going to be the first in a series, just because it took so long for Mortimer and company to find the head guy and then be given a mission. Supposedly Mortimer comes out of hiding after nine or ten years to go and find his ex-wife, but he never convinces himself or the reader that that is the reason. Mostly he is just lonely. Instead, after sort of thrashing around for 218 pages the book suddenly has a 'purpose' of a sorts, which in the end doesn't achieve much. 'New boss, same as the old boss'. Gischler doesn't really evoke a sense of mood or texture, I never got a very clear picture of the world, and the action, especially the final battle at the end of the book, amounts to a pretty lame car chase. There is plenty of gore, but mostly the effect is B monster movie splatter.

The blurb on the cover (not the author's fault) draws unfortunate comparisons to Christopher Moore and Quentin Tarantino. Moore is way funnier and Tartinto's violence (when he is on his game) is far more shocking and effective.

Now, I'm just the kind of sexist pig who enjoys tits and ass, even when they are written about, but I had trouble with the book's depiction of the girl, Shelia, that 38 year old Mortimer hooks up with. To start with she is a girl, "sixteen or seventeen at most, but Mortimer wasn't sure that sort of thing mattered anymore." (148) Which is, whether you like it or not, common in male fantasies (also stat-rape in real life). But in the context of this story Shelia sleeps with Mortimer to 'thank/apologize' to him for saving her from a sadistic bastard who had probably being raping her since she was nine. She brushes this off later saying she wants to become a go-go-girl (prostitute) and that the guy wasn't raping her, he was stealing from her (not paying).

It really bugs me that Shelia doesn't seem to be affected at all from nine to ten years of sexual and physical abuse. That and Mortimer doesn't seem to connect himself, an adult in a relationship with her, with the sadistic idiot who has used Shelia from a very young age. Sigh. That's my rant. I'm fine with silly plots, dumb characters, and sexy fantasy, but I just couldn't swallow Shelia the happy hooker.

So why did I read this book? I was given it as a gift and then suckered in by the blurb. Perhaps it is the definition of a bestseller in that it was as easy to read to the end as it would have been to put it down. I'm done. I ranted. Now to find something with boobs that doesn't make me feel so dirty.(less)

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May 09, 2010

BookMarc rated it

It was my birthday last month and as always I got a gift card for Barnes & Noble which is just about the perfect gift. Also, as always, there were just too many books that I wanted to buy but couldn't afford and narrowing my choices down from a few hundred books to four books was a challenging task. It was a task I took on with vigor and relish though and then I realized that I shouldn't have eaten so much of that relish as it gave me stomach cramps. Anyhow, one of the books I decided upon was '...more

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Sep 17, 2008

Proditor rated it

Hmmm. It's an interesting read. It makes a lot of assumptions about the nature of man, and I'd love to say that they're wrong, but I think I'd be lying unfortunately. The book is over the top, at times funny, at times morbid. It's Post-apocalypse at it's best and worst. I definitely have to give Gischler credit for one very important thing though, and that's finding a way to make the hero sympathetic and identifible. It would be more difficult to get in to the mind of one of the other survivors,...more

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Sep 10, 2008

Ken rated it

Recommends it for: people who enjoy summer action movies.

I worked with Victor when we lived in Oklahoma, and although the genre in which he writes is not my usual fare, I always read his books. Although this book does not focus on hit-men, the mob, and other hired killers, one can still find plenty of sex, guns, and violence (although this one is a little lighter on the sex).

Set 10 years after an apocalypse, the book begins with the emergence of Mortimet Tate who has been holed up in a cave which he initially made habitable as he planned ...more

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Sep 03, 2008

Monk rated it

Shelves: sci-fi

I am a self professed apocalyptic fiction fan. I started with Stephen King's 'The Gunslinger', moved to a book by Robert McCammon called Swan Song in tenth grade, and read many more before reading the granddaddy of all end of the world novels, The Stand, turning once again in King's direction.

All of those books made the end of days seem so real. Plaguelands stretching across America. Nuclear war forging a new era. The slow decay into decadence, madness and eventual final quiet.
...moreI am a self professed apocalyptic fiction fan. I started with Stephen King's 'The Gunslinger', moved to a book by Robert McCammon called Swan Song in tenth grade, and read many more before reading the granddaddy of all end of the world novels, The Stand, turning once again in King's direction.

All of those books made the end of days seem so real. Plaguelands stretching across America. Nuclear war forging a new era. The slow decay into decadence, madness and eventual final quiet.

Go-Go Girls of the Apocalypse makes the end of the word fun.

I bought it on a Monday as a guilty pleasure read, and here I sit Wednesday evening, all wrapped up. This was better than guilty pleasure. This was actually a really good book. If you can picture Christopher Moore getting his hands on a re-write of Mad Max, you're thinking in the right direction already.

The book's protagonist is Mortimer Tate, a former insurance salesman and divorcee who has holed himself up in the Mountains of Tennessee to ride out the death throes of civilization. After nine years of self imposed exile, he encounters three men in his mountain retreat - killing all of them in a knee-jerk moment. From then on, he decides he's got to leave. He can't take living in isolation any longer, not with people still running around, some of which might be a lot better than the corpses he just made. He takes off into the new American Wasteland in search of his ex-wife and finds the world has changed. Up from the ashes of the Union, comes the brave new economy of Joey Armageddon's Sassy A-Go-Go.

Joey Armageddon is a man with a dream and he's expanding rapidly. His currency, the Armageddon Dollar is the only common barter between towns and he's fixing to be a big player. But big players have enemies as Mort is about to find out. Along with his sidekicks Buffalo Bill (a man turned cowboy vigilante after the war) and Sheila (a Joey's Girl), they take on the post-apocalypse world with a humor that one could not possibly expect from this brand of fiction.

I enthusiastically endorse this book for those who can tolerate the barbarism and violence of certain scenes, and I liken it very much to the literary equivalent of Shaun of the Dead. It has just enough drama, just enough action, just enough comedy, and just enough horror (but NO zombies), without ever disturbing the mix. It's a deceptively good read, and I imagine I'll be making the rounds with this to a few people I know.(less)

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