A.C. Weisbecker
Paperback | Pages: 224 pages Rating: 3.88 | 2283 Users | 160 Reviews
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| Title | : | Cosmic Banditos |
| Author | : | A.C. Weisbecker |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 224 pages |
| Published | : | March 6th 2001 by Berkley Books (first published 1981) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Science Fiction. Humor |
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Soon to be a major motion picture starring John Cusack!Mr. Quark is a down-on-his luck pot-smuggler hiding out in the mountains of Colombia with his dog, High Pockets, and a small band of banditos led by the irascible Jose. Only months before, these three and their fearless associates were rolling in millions in cash and high-grade marijuana, eluding prosecution on "ridiculously false" drug and terrorism charges. But times have quickly grown lean, and to liven up their exile, Jose decides to mug a family of American tourists.Among the spoils are physics texts, which launch Mr. Quark on a side-splitting, boisterous adventure north to California, where he confronts the owner of the books with his own theories on relativity, the nature of the universe, and looking for the meaning of life in all the wrong places....
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| Original Title: | Cosmic Bandidos |
| ISBN: | 0451203062 (ISBN13: 9780451203069) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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Ratings: 3.88 From 2283 Users | 160 ReviewsComment On Epithetical Books Cosmic Banditos
This is quite simply a under-read masterpiece. Boasting equal measures of Hunter s. Thompson full blown Gonzo, and Stephen R Hawking dialects on quantum mechanics and chaos theory. While quantum mechanics may not usually qualify as light reading, throw in about a hundred gallons of tequila, a south-of-the-boarder band of drug running banditos and you get the wildest ride and perhaps the best exploration of just how strange and chaotic the quantum realm of sub-atomic particles really is!For manyI read this as a weird teenager and found it to be the funniest book I ever remember reading. The craziness of the story - a drug-runner in hiding who goes on a journey of knowledge to understand the meaning of the universe through quantum physics, just nuts.Stupidly I lent the book to a friend and never saw it again. I would definitely re-read
A chaotic tale blending marijuana smuggling, quantum theory mechanics and all kinds of other things I probably didn't understand. Extremely funny, Cosmic Banditos is an action packed novel following the escapades of Mr Quark and his motley crew of degenerate Banditos as they create mayhem across South and Central America. Imagine a cocktail blend of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy and the Galaxy and you'll come close to getting a feel for the style of Cosmic
weisbecker's book reads like fear & loathing in las vegas as written by douglas adams: a serious inquiry into quantum physics (and many of its branches, each with their own hand in the novel's meager plot) made palatable through the outlaw story and absurdist humor that acts as its engine. it's light on story, but it's loveable and somehow incredibly honest in its interests and its depictions and illustrations of those interests. ultimately the conclusion our narrator (and weisbecker come
Cosmic Banditos operates on two narrative levels. The first is a mercifully brief, neo-H. S. Thompson picaresque. It's light on story, and is burdened by an apparent eschewal of outlining or planning. That is, however, only the novel's most superficial layer, as the plot's mock-gonzo gambol through felony and underworld is belied by its deeply theoretical thesis.It is, despite its length, a robust post-modern creation myth, where the anti-heroic Mr. Quark - Weisbecker's would-be prophet - seeks
This book came highly recommended but I found it, at most, mildly entertaining. I don't know...maybe I've just read too many books about white men using drugs, sex, philosophy and racial irreverence to stumble towards enlightenment. Plus -- sorry to be so sensitive -- I was not particularly amused by the Black character's runaway slave dialect or the prolific use of derogatory names for gays and Mexicans. Perhaps the slurs wouldn't have bothered me so much if the author had anything new or
Half Catch 22, half Leaving Las Vegas, 100% awesome.
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