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Laughing Monsters
Laughing Monsters | Denis Johnson
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A post-9/11 literary spy thriller from the National Book Award-winning author of "Tree of Smoke"Adriko is an African who styles himself a soldier of fortune and who claims to have served, at various times, the Ghanaian army, the Kuwaiti Emiri Guard, and the American Green Berets. He's probably broke now, but he remains, at thirty-six, as stirred by his own doubtful schemes as he was a decade ago. Although Nair believes some kind of money-making plan lies at the back of it all, Adriko's stated reason for inviting his friend to Freetown is for Nair to meet Adriko's fiancee, a college girl named Davidia from Colorado. Together the three set out to visit Adriko's clan in the Uganda-Congo borderland-but each of these travelers is keeping secrets from the others. Their journey through a land abandoned by the future leads Adriko, Nair, and Davidia to meet themselves not in a new light, but rather in a new darkness. A high-suspense tale of kaleidoscoping loyalties in the post-9/11 world, Denis Johnson's "The Laughing Monsters" shows one of our great novelists at the top of his game."
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Laughing Monsters | Denis Johnson
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BeansPage 😂 🧟‍♀️ 4y
Linsy 😝 4y
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AsYouWish
Laughing Monsters | Denis Johnson
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BeansPage That's actually quite terrifying 😂 🧟‍♀️ 4y
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BeansPage
Laughing Monsters | Denis Johnson
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#TeamStoker you guys are coming up with some GREAT book titles!!! you're having me laugh so hard I almost peed my pants twice!!!

#Scarathlon

jb72 Laughter is good for the soul! 5y
BeansPage @jb72 indeed it is 😂😂 5y
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Chris
Mehso-so

I didn‘t hate it! but I‘m still anxious to check out more Johnson. For some reason I got kind of a The Sun Also Rises vibe from it. But instead of expatriated American writers moving recklessly through Europe it was an expatriated NATO agent and a mercenary moving recklessly through Africa. I don‘t know if that was Johnson‘s intent but it fits better than if I kept waiting for it to become a Robert Ludlum novel or something I think?

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lol

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Just starting. This is the first Denis Johnson book I‘ve read. It wasn‘t necessarily my first choice and based on these comments in the back from other readers I‘m worried it may have been the wrong one. Welp here we go.

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#spinepoetry #riotgrams
What I loved,without fail,
the laughing monsters,
the art of just sitting,
nights in the gardens of Brooklyn.

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻❤️❤️❤️❤️ 6y
merelybookish Lovely! 6y
TobeyTheScavengerMonk Fantastic! 6y
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FaisalJ
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Spy thriller set in Africa where a NATO agent is sent to spy on his old comrade. Themes of global powers still playing the great game in Africa, terrorism, corruption and espionage. The first part was fun but the second part was disjointed and lost focus. 7/10