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I'm excited to start Seveneves next, but I am really enjoying Skullcrack City by Jeremy Robert Johnson. I've read some of his other work, specifically We Live Inside You, and the creativity he owns is damned impressive. Chuck Palahniuk calls him "a dazzling writer." I'd have to agree. To say it's about brain eating monsters is factual, but misses the heady social commentary. To call it a brilliant study of power, motivation, corruption, and the search for an edge is also factual, but completely misses how insanely fun it is.
I enjoy the bizarro fiction genre and I want all of it to be this good, but I find some of it to be empty. Jeremy Robert Johnson is so insanely good he rises out of the genre to literature.
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