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false <![CDATA[Bad Monkeys]]> 71845 12 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. 69564 1 8 2007 Bad Monkeys total:1412|5:220|4:561|3:444|2:149|1:38| 1412 5012 1934 420 2 9 true false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Sep 08 15:07:44 -0700 2007 Fri Sep 14 18:01:55 -0700 2007 more...]]> 2 7 false false Sat Dec 15 11:28:11 -0800 2007 Fri Dec 21 18:03:18 -0800 2007
Sort of.

Trying very hard not to ruin the book, the first hal...more...]]> 3 3 false false Tue May 06 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 23 05:28:38 -0700 2008 Thu May 15 14:19:40 -0700 2008
The book started off really weird and then got even stranger. It did seem that the last 20-30 pages were a little forced, or maybe, the author was...more...]]> 4 2 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Aug 27 08:28:38 -0700 2007 Wed Sep 05 17:43:12 -0700 2007 Bad Monkeys was an absolute page turner for me (in every possible positive sense of the phrase). It was like Matt Ruff was channeling Neal Stephenson. Through a primarily first person narrative, with a sprinkling of third person interludes, Bad Monkeys questions the deeper nature of good and e...more...]]> 4 1 false false Fri Oct 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 05 15:45:47 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 24 02:36:52 -0700 2009 Men in Black, but in this book the hidden organization is dedicated to rooting out evil, not to protecting aliens blah blah blah. Several parallels to the movie: the organization is completely hidden; they have ...more...]]> 5 2 false false Mon Nov 24 13:14:06 -0800 2008 Mon Nov 24 13:14:06 -0800 2008 A review by Gerry Donaghy

Jane Charlotte works for The Department of Final Disposition of Irredeemable Persons, a division of a nameless organization dedicated to fighting evil. The nickname for her division is Bad Monkeys, and at the beginning of Matt Ruff's novel of t...more...]]> 4 1 false false Thu Dec 04 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Oct 03 12:13:42 -0700 2008 Thu Dec 04 09:01:27 -0800 2008
I wasn’t quite sure what to expect from this book when I began reading it and I found my self scrutinizing the book in the beginning. I c...more...]]> 1 1 false false Wed Sep 17 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 17 07:41:31 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 17 11:39:24 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 1 true false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Aug 15 18:06:24 -0700 2007 Sun Aug 19 20:24:33 -0700 2007
This was an easy entertaining read. The whole thing took 2-3 days.

I picked the title up at Santoro's, a bookseller on Greenwood in the Phinney Ridge neighborhood. I was killing time, wanting ...more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 26 06:52:38 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 26 06:52:38 -0700 2007 more...]]> 1 2 false false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri May 15 03:33:55 -0700 2009 Sat May 16 08:54:54 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false false Thu Jan 29 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 26 16:15:30 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 29 10:09:40 -0800 2009
The novel definitly becomes steadily more and ...more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Sep 03 15:19:52 -0700 2007 Thu Sep 06 12:35:58 -0700 2007
Bad Monkeys has elements of all thre...more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Jun 29 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 30 01:08:19 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 04 13:43:03 -0700 2008 The Matrix meets The Silence of the Lambs concept - which almost made me not buy the book - but it really was a page-turner. I tend to like the is-she-insane or is-it-really-happening genre; and the book reads like watching a mostly well-produced thri...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon May 05 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Mar 24 19:57:07 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 24 19:57:56 -0700 2009
Bad Monkeys by Matt Ruff is not a book I would have picked up in the library and brought home for myself. Someone else would have to pick it for me. In fact, that is exac...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 03 23:45:44 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 04 00:35:56 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 16 15:37:03 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 17 08:40:38 -0700 2009
I am a sucker for being intrigued by this type of plot. Secret organizations battling evil on the fringes of society's consciousness... I think I just ma...more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Apr 09 06:19:49 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 09 06:19:57 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Aug 27 13:32:00 -0700 2007 Thu Aug 30 10:35:26 -0700 2007 more...]]> 2 3 false false Tue Sep 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 26 15:24:13 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 29 19:24:00 -0700 2009 much too easy for a bad writer to throw in a clichéd twist (or, in the case of this book, about thirty clichéd twists), and...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/1?book_id=7047123 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/3?book_id=7047123 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/2?book_id=7047123 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=7047123 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/4?book_id=7047123 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/5?book_id=7047123 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/6?book_id=7047123 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/7?book_id=7047123 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/9?book_id=7047123 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/10?book_id=7047123