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Title: Ecstasy Club: A Novel by Douglas Rushkoff ISBN: 1-57322-702-1 Publisher: Riverhead Books Pub. Date: November, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.62 (29 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Ultimate Trip
Comment: A roller coaster ride through drugs, future concepts, morality, and cults. I loved the odd mix of characters and the piano factory setting. I never knew about the "rave scene" until reading this book.
Rating: 4
Summary: Techno, Drugs and Government Conspiracy?!?
Comment: After reading some of Douglas Rushkoff's non-fiction work, specifically "Coercion", I was looking forward to checking out his story telling skills. I haven't read a lot of fiction lately, so this book was a nice change of pace.
Ecstasy Club takes place in Oakland, CA where a bunch of lost soul Gen X'ers start a commune in an abandoned warehouse where they search for the meaning of life while raving the nights away and consuming as many drugs as humanly possible. The story twisted around drug induced psychoses, cult leaders, crazy government conspiracy theories and wild rave parties.
Rushkoff has proved that he can write a fictional story just as well as he can write about current topics. I really enjoyed the book and look forward to his next fictional work.
Rating: 5
Summary: Origin of PLUR Foundation Myth
Comment: A charismatic Brit and his entourage of overeducated dropouts take over a piano factory in Oakland, intending to squat there and throw the most massive raves the Bay Area has ever seen. But, as their project progresses, they find the mix of their idealistic youthful hormones and the hard drugs they gobble up like Captain Crunch has turned their enterprise into a paranoid schizophrenic cult called Ecstasy Club bent on time travel and transcendence. Things get weird when they actually succeed. But all is not well in Nirvana. Rushkoff manages to hard-wire a psychotically charged volume that connects all the pop-culture dots, like conspiracy theories, aliens, and MTV. The ironic distance of the narrator seems malleable, like physical distance on too much acid. Ecstasy Club seems to turn its own pages.
(this review got accidentally posted to another Rushkoff book)
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Title: Coercion: Why We Listen to What "They" Say by Douglas Rushkoff ISBN: 157322829X Publisher: Riverhead Books Pub. Date: 10 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Exit Strategy: A Novel by Douglas Rushkoff ISBN: 1887128905 Publisher: Soft Skull Pr Pub. Date: 10 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Nothing Sacred : The Truth About Judaism by DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF ISBN: 0609610945 Publisher: Crown Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Cyberia: Life in the Trenches of Cyberspace by Douglas Rushkoff ISBN: 1903083249 Publisher: Clinamen Press Ltd Pub. Date: 02 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Media Virus! by Douglas Rushkoff ISBN: 0345397746 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 06 February, 1996 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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