Product Description

Intelligent fiction for the mentally unhinged. Click is urban grit of the highest order - a first person romp through the unreality of an unnamed metropolis in which the protagonist is stalked by his inner demons while half-heartedly trying to save the world. Fun and excitement for the whole dysfuntional family, Click is not to be missed. Plot Summary - Click's hero is experiencing glitches in the universe. He may have tapped into a strange ability which gives him control over the world around him. Or, there's the disturbing possiblity that he's a case study in paranoid schizophrenia. After all, -they- might be after him. He's falling apart -- and to make matters worse, his girlfriend may just be crazier than he is. Forced to face his fears and come to terms with his own flawed nature, he must discover what it means to truly evolve.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #57527 in Books
• Published on: 2006-03-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 180 pages

Review
"...a compelling genre-bending piece of fiction with a great hook. Click embodies the grit-lit of the streets..." -- Dogmatika

"...a rare and amazing literary feat... highly personal and gut-wrenchingly real, yet surreal, dream-like and convincingly fantastic." -- MungBeing Magazine

"This is a voice that reaches out and goes right for the jugular." -- Detroit Metro Times

Customer Reviews

Picture perfect - Click clicks!
Perfect! Kristopher Young has written a superb novel! The words click, the sections click, the book just clicks! From Jesse Reno cover to cover. Similar in style to much of what I read, but unlike anything I've ever read before.

Love it! Young's protagonist is a horrible, wonderful, crazy mess, but with good intentions. Control eludes this poor creature. Whatever control he gains over his rapid life, it's quickly disrupted by external things, internal things, things in between. Torn.

Young gives Click such a great energy, pace. First page a starter's pistol. The story never lets up, barely takes time to blink or breathe. Love everything about this book.

Best thing about Click? If forced to choose, couple things...

1) Young can write. Click is easily one of the best books I've read recently, and I read a lot. I'll proudly stack Click on top of books by some of my favorite authors. Not because these books have everything in common necessarily - except in tone perhaps. But because Young is a wonderfully talented and unique author - as is Chuck Palahniuk, as is A.M. Homes, as is William Gibson, as is Carlton Mellick III, etc. All for very different reasons. Great author = great book.

2) Click is violent, yes. But Young doesn't glorify/deify this violence. His protagonist spends most of the book trying to avoid or prevent this violence. It's forced upon him. It's a product of where he lives, the people around him, his 'gift'. Young doesn't celebrate this violence, but explores it, taps and pokes at it with a stick until it springs. Why? It's here, makes sense that it would be there.

3) Section to wonderful section, you're never quite sure if Young's anti-hero is awake, asleep, somewhere in between. Living? Dreaming? Hallucinating? You almost want drugs to be involved, but they aren't, which just makes the book more alive, aware, awake.

OK. That's my pitch. No snake oil in this bottle. No cure, but whatever it is, it's real. Read this book. Tell your friends - they'll thank you!

Not only is Click amazing, but the creative machine behind it - Another Sky Press - is positively revolutionary! Check out their site.

Support this book, this author, this press!

Please visit anothersky.org & jessereno.com.

Thank you for your time!

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One Heck of a Story
Recently delving into the realm of bizzare lit, Click definitely has been my favorite. For one, Young gives us a story and doesn't just froth pure nonsense for the sake of putting down words on a page.

Where several authors have written of madness effectively (House of Leaves by Danielewski), Young really captures it in the writing itself. Unsure of what is reality and what is created in our main character's mind, Click wraps us in a story that is sometimes tragic, sometimes wacky, and ultimately poignant.

If you've read enough of the same already, Click is probably what you're looking for now. Highly recommended, I'm certainly glad to have experienced this author.

Redemption
I swiped Click from my lover. Read it. Loved it. Must have my own copy now.

We've all had moments when we doubt our own sanity, well anyway, I have. Peering inside one's own head and being afraid to admit what might be lurking there. Afraid no one else houses such demons or worse, that everyone does. And all too often, I've read depictions of that same alienation and found them flat and lacking.

Not so with Click.

I adored and was repelled by the protagonist. I empathized; felt his anguish, his trauma. Sometimes I wanted to smack him, others to hold him close and mother him. I want to sit down and have a cup of coffee with him. To see his eyes.

Click made me squirm, fascinated and unable to look away. Nightmares in Everycity. Yet hope, redemption emerge - power does not equal corruption, benevolence is viable: a goal we can reach for and grasp. And share.