rhetorical excursions

David Spademan is good at one thing, being a garbageman, his father was a garbageman and he followed suit, but seeing how the once great city of New York is now basically a memory that has all been wiped out by a "dirty bomb" , he's been reduced to peruse other areas of trash related work. The people that still inhabit the fringe neighborhoods that once surrounded Time Square spend their time locked into a dreamlike virtual reality where anything goes, Spademan still manages to take out the trash, but in the form of a box-cutter to the jugular while creepy perverts who broke an unwritten rule are locked into la la land. Technically there are no rules in this altered reality known as the Limnosphere, so in short, Spademan takes out whomever his clients ask, so long as he's paid in cash. He likes his job, to a degree. But his latest target, Lesser, a fat sloppy bed-hopping pervert who likes to peek in on other people's fantasies sends Spademan down a weird and...

I really enjoyed this book in the most literal sense. Not because I fancy myself an activist, nor do I indulge in anything remotely close to activism, but simply because the story was captivating and held me in awe from the very first page. Consequence as a whole is definitely against the grain of my normal tastes but suitably so as I found this book so terribly difficult to put down. Page after page of lyrical prose filled this novel. I especially enjoyed the back and forth banter between Chagall and Christopher, which were aggressive and domineering as both parties fought for control and in the end one side completely fails to hold up the agreement and betrays the other. I will say, in my opinion that this book was not a gut clenching thriller, in any sense, but it did leave me feeling uncomfortable and afraid of the outcome for many a character. Masover is smooth with his delivery and direct with his words. For more information on Consequence, by Steve Masover , p...