New PDF release: RoboChildren: The Tussin Generation

By James Hunt

ISBN-10: 1481030272

ISBN-13: 9781481030274

Publish 12 months note: First released August twenty fourth 2009
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Every decade has its model of the culture. The 50s had the beatniks with their stressed Benzedrine wanderings, the 60s had the hippies with their LSD-inspired politics, the 70s and 80s led into the cocaine riddled noses of punks and hair steel, and the 90s destroyed lives with heroin and prescription drug dependancy - yet constantly there has been the belief of taking pictures moments of significant depravity in writing. The counterculture of the 2000s grabs a bottle of cough syrup off the shelf and says, "Eh, fuck it..."

Based at the author's genuine adventure, RoboChildren files that mentality like not anything sooner than it. What model of mayhem sits on your medication cupboard? at the floor, RoboChildren is a narrative of a bunch of young children abusing medicinal drugs - relatively DXM, the lively aspect in daily cough syrups - to fulfill adolescent angst and the necessity to insurgent. yet beneath, it's an ode to the existential struggles of today's adolescence, who're turning to extra risky behaviors in an try and outline themselves in a merciless universe. The narrator, James, is an ungainly and indignant person, who sees the total international via morbid and paranoid eyes, even perceiving his acquaintances as enemies. the line of heavy drug abuse drives James and his off-beat team of misfit pals to throw warning out the window as they pace from one act of reckless abandon to the subsequent, wasting contact with fact alongside the best way. James' brain is being cut up in - one part, a promising younger grownup desiring to achieve nice heights, the opposite, a drug addled outcast bent on destruction.

Along the best way we meet James' associates, Zach, a hopeless thrill junky; Phil, a sociopathic addict of the main perverse sort; Gary, a unstable madman with nihilistic trends; and Daniel, the self-proclaimed non secular mentor to the crowd. jointly, they shape the RoboChildren, believing they've got actually chanced on the reply to existence, and taking each danger to acquire it.

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