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    Buzz Kill: A Novel
    Buzz Kill: A Novel
    Buzz Kill: A Novel
    Audiobook14 hours

    Buzz Kill: A Novel

    Written by David Sosnowski

    Narrated by Lauren Ezzo

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    About this audiobook

    “Along with the almost satirical rendering of the world, the lovely writing, and engaging plot, the characters of George and Pandora are brilliant.” —Booklist

    Pandora 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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateJan 28, 2020
    ISBN9781799749714
    Buzz Kill: A Novel
    Author

    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.

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    • 5/5
      Fuckin brilliant ..... Seven more words needed to post review ffs
    • 3/5
      At times funny, poignant and even clever. But, my god, we do not need to name check EVERY nerd culture meme in science and technology-dozens and dozens. All the buzzwords are just, well–a buzzkill.
    • 3/5
      First half is greatThe first half of the book is great because it spends a lot of time setting up the six characters and gets the story rolling with a genial geekiness. In the middle long paragraphs on programming bog things down a bit. Then at the end the characters vanish one by one which might – might – be a subtle echo (there is a lot about echoes in this book) of Grandma Gladys vanishing into dementia. More likely it's that Mr. Sosnowski ran out of steam. The ending is dull, easily foretold, and lame.I received a review copy of "Buzz Kill" by David Sosnowski from 47North through NetGalley.com.