Johnny Future
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3.0 • 1 Rating
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- $2.99
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Publisher Description
Turning thirty with no money in the bank, no job and no prospects, sipping NyQuil and staring at the Los Angeles sky, at space, at nothing and everything - Johnny Future is cool with that. He knows he must do something but doesn't know what. His grandmother, who he hasn't seen in ten years, and who is his only 'mother,' is in a nursing home.
Inanimate objects begin talking to him, telling him he's got problems.
So Johnny Future tells us about his world; and his future is our future
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Johnny Future, the drugged-out narrator of Abee's abysmal latest, lives on a skuzzy stretch of Hollywood Boulevard. After a night of recreational Nyquil drinking, Johnny visits a friend and has the first of several hallucinations that will plague him throughout the novel. His wastoid adventures are the stuff of adolescent fantasy: he consumes many drugs, has many bizarre experiences, lands a job at a sex shop and ends up on a wild adventure with a stripper named America. Despite self-assessments like "I'm Johnny Future, small parking lot good creature of the sun, friend of man and beast, taco stand of love," he remains a cipher, and the novel rests artlessly on his shoulders. The supporting characters fare no better and seldom rise above caricature: paraplegic transvestite Baby Juice is paraded for shock value, and America is a clich vagabond Madonna whose sudden, soulful connection to Johnny is predicted by a fortune teller. This disorganized mess goes nowhere interesting and says nothing new.
