bang BANG: A Novel (ISBN 1601640005)

This is a "Why didn't I think of that?" book.:
Everybody talks about guns, the right and the wrong about having them, but nobody does anything about it. (So to speak.) Nobody except this author. His ingenious novel tells how one woman deals with guns. And the way she deals with it carries you through the pages with the greatest of ease. I can imagine novelists saying, "Why didn't I think of that?" Five shots. I mean 5 stars.

Brilliant:
One of the most briliant novels in the last few years. A tragic story interspersed with lots of humor, frizzy copy and nimble dialogs. A must-read.

I loved this book!:
I mostly read modern novels. I like writers who really care about the language and write beautiful stuff without getting so in love with their words that you can't understand them. I like guys like Chuck Palahniuk, Peter Clenott Hunting the King, and Martin Amis and Richard Price, George Martin A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 3), Milan Kundera and Derek Armstrong, especially for The Last Troubadour: Song of Montsegur and MADicine. Now I have a new favorite writer to love. Lynn Hoffman weaves a magic spell. You start this book and you're completely lost in from the beginning to the end. During the action scenes I didn't take a breath until they were over. She is a very special writer and I look forward to her next book.

Oprah!! Clint!:
bang BANG is a really hot little story about how women might use sex to change the world. As the victim of a street crime, Paula Sherman organizes a bunch of women to fight against the guns on the streets of Philadelphia. You'll have to read the book to get her tactics, but the whole thing is hilarious while it asks a very serious question. The other thing that I liked about this story was the dead-pan spoof of the media. In the beginning, Paula is worked over by the local media. Later on, she works over the national media (Oprah. Clint.) big time. bang BANG is action-packed and funny and the writing's great--- entertaining, intelligent, and definitely worth a read.

Poorly written:
Poorly written, hard to follow, slow read, waste of time. A rewrite might improve things, certainly better edtting would be in order. Title is confusing.