[UA] Bad Monkeys

[john at tynes.com]

I read it recently and enjoyed it. Not great, but has quite a few great 
ideas and moments.



>----Original Message----
>From: rusrayburn at gmail.com
>Date: Oct 15, 2007 12:49 
>To: "The Unknown Armies RPG Mailing List"<ua at lists.unknown-armies.
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>Subj: Re: [UA] Bad Monkeys
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>Cheeky Monkeys all around, then.
>
>...
>
>what?
>
>On 10/15/07, Tim Bisaillon <knightbane at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Sound similiar to another monkey project. About a man coming from 
the future
>> trying to stop a group from unleashing a virus which would destroy 
the
>> world. Though the man ends up in an insane asylmn. :)
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>  ________________________________
>>  From: john1x at hotmail.com
>> To: ua at lists.unknown-armies.com
>> Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 18:21:46 +0000
>> Subject: [UA] Bad Monkeys
>>
>>
>>
>> Just finished Matt Ruff's (relatively short) new novel, Bad 
Monkeys.  It is,
>> I think, a very UAish sort of novel in a lot of ways.  And very
>> entertaining, to boot.
>>
>> Synopsis?
>>
>>      Jane Charlotte has been arrested for murder.
>>
>>
>>      She tells police that she is a member of a secret organization 
devoted
>> to fighting evil; her division is called "The Department for the 
Final
>> Disposition of Irredeemable Persons"— "Bad Monkeys" for short.
>>
>>      This confession earns Jane a trip to the jail's psychiatric 
wing, where
>> a doctor attempts to determine whether she is lying, crazy—or 
playing a
>> different game altogether.
>>
>>
>>
>> And the first chapter can be read here:
>>
>>
>>
>> http://home.att.net/~storytellers/monkprev.html
>>
>>
>>
>> I recommend it.
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