How to Smash Everyone to Pieces [Paperback]

Mike Segretto (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 21, 2004

Ex-stunt woman and champion wisecracker Mary is furious to discover that her twin sister Desiree — accused of murdering her husband — has been wrangled back to an Arizona prison by a grizzled detective named Tuttle. Fueled by an unnaturally obsessive love for her twin, Mary sets off on a homicidal cross-country campaign to free Desiree from the clutches of the law, recruiting a bizarre bunch of cohorts on the way. Flanked by fast-talking lawyer Mexicali Sally, frustrated punk-rocker Revolta, and a hulking but flamboyant mass of a man known only as "The Violator," Mary steals motorcycles, stages lethal stripteases, and generally wreaks havoc until arriving in Arizona, where she plots a prison break for Desiree and faces a final showdown with Detective Tuttle. Bursting with action, How to Smash Everyone to Pieces keeps the pedal to the metal from start to finish.

Product Details

• Paperback: 185 pages
• Publisher: Contemporary Press (December 21, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0974461466
• ISBN-13: 978-0974461465
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.2 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,989,739 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars The greatest book about a serial killing lesbian ever!, December 1, 2004

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WilliamL "avid reader" (UK) - See all my reviews

This review is from: How to Smash Everyone to Pieces (Paperback)

OK first off - you should buy this book. Its great. It's kinda like listening to The Who at full volume while destroying a yuppie bar with a baseball bat. On really great trucker speed. It's that good.
If you like your books quick, dirty and LOUD then get a copy of How To Smash Everyone To Pieces. I defy anyone who has ever laughed at a John Waters movie, gotten drunk and made a fool of themselves at a party, lost a tooth and cant remember how or recieved a death threat from an ex-girlfriend / boyfriend NOT to LOVE this book. OK thats it. As you can tell, I liked the book.

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5.0 out of 5 stars IF SHAFT & SUPERFLY HAD A BABY, IT WOULD BE THIS BOOK, January 9, 2005

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NATHAN PRINCE "FUNK FANATIC" (NEW YORK, NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: How to Smash Everyone to Pieces (Paperback)

THIS BOOK RECIEVED 5 STARS FROM FROM ME FOR THE FOLLOWING REASONS: (A): THERE IS A LOT OF NON-STOP ACTION IN THIS BOOK. THE ACTION IS SOMETIMES IN THE FORM OF GRATUITOUS VIOLENCE; (B): THE ACTION IS ALSO IN THE FORM OF GRAPHIC DEPICTIONS OF SEX (MOSTLY LESBIAN IN NATURE); AND (C): THERE ARE ALSO STRIPPING AND JAILHOUSE SHOWER SCENES, WHICH WILL RAISE YOUR CURLY HAIRS STRAIGHT UP. BUT MAINLY, IT'S A BOOK ABOUT A WOMAN WHO JUST HAPPENS TO BE MADLY IN LOVE WITH HER VERY OWN FLESH AND BLOOD SISTER. SO, IF YOU CAN GET PAST THESE ISSUES, YOU WILL FIND YOURSELF THOROUGHLY ENJOYING THIS LITERARY ROLLERCOASTER OF "SEX, DRUGS, AND ROCK & ROLL". ENJOY THE RIDE, BUT PLEASE, DO ME A FAVOR...AND FASTEN YOUR SEATBELTS...TIGHT!!!

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Clockwork Orange meets Easy Rider, April 14, 2005

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Carl Moore "[e-mail]" (Brooklyn, New York) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: How to Smash Everyone to Pieces (Paperback)

Some love the fact that there's a lot of cartoonish prose out there, some don't. Some celebrate the elastic impossibility of imagination, others wish Harold Bloom's literary aesthetic was the sole form of valuing anything anyone writes.

Well smash both of these preconceptions to pieces. This novella, while fast paced and full of porno sex and violence, has a certain subtle edge to its prose that makes the characters feel a little more real than heroes out of Voltron, yet without slowing down the pace of the read.

Mary, the protagonist, likes to slash dudes and screw gals. But what makes her beautiful is that the author does not write her as a one dimensional 'femme fatale'; instead we get as much about what she loves (like her sister and diner food and trees), as what she hates. We get emotion and grittiness, we get fat kids who play with dirty dogs, we get new and familiar forms of slang written phonetically and rhyming as well as Burgess at his best, and plenty of other things very much NOT cartoonish, which ends up making what is a little more vibrant in its color.

So if you want something zany and vibrant, but with a bit of subtlety that doesn't weight it down, I strongly recommend How To Smash Everyone To Pieces.