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Tokyo Suckerpunch : A Billy Chaka Adventure
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Binding: Paperback
Edition: 1st
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Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 336
Publication Date: November 01, 2000
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Editorial Review:Meet Billy Chaka, ace reporter for Cleveland's hottest-selling Asian teen magazine. He's brash, savvy, and prone to hair-trigger fits of karate. Billy's in Tokyo to cover the 19-and-Under Handicapped Martial Arts Championship and meet up with his friend Sato Migusion, the international renowned director of such cult film classics as Sex Up the Hotrod, Baby! But Sato never shows. Instead, the girl of Billy's dreams stumbles into a dive bar with tatooed Yakuza mobsters in hot pursuit. Then Billy will start brawls in swanky corporate sex clubs, be offered a golf club membership by a secret religious order, meet a dog trained in the ways of the Samurai, and race stolen motorcycles through the neon-choked streets of Tokyo. Packed with enough over-the-top fists action to make Jackie Chan cry, and featuring the most lovable uncool hero since Austin Powers, this hilarious send-up is a pop culture potpourri of sub-epic proportion.
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Rating:  - Suckerpunched!
Drop Philip Marlowe in the middle of Tokyo, and you might have something like "Tokyo Suckerpunch."
Isaac Adamson's debut novel is a flashy, funny mystery with plenty of gruesome murders, solid one-liners and fast-paced battles over a strange supernatural geisha. One of the storylines isn't quite handled to satisfaction, but the overall book (which will be made into a Toby Maguire movie) is wonderfully fun and strange.
Billy Chaka is waiting for his friend, cult director ... Read More
Rating:  - cheesy and campy
I picked this book up for $2 at an outlet mall discount book store. It started interestingly enough, so I picked up the other Billy Chaka books for about $10 including shipping. Then I dug in and barely made it thru the first book. It was so contrived and terribly fluff -which is ok- but I'd hoped for a little bit more humour and writing skill being that it was published by a company and not a DIY POD setup. The fight scenes were terribly contrived and too over the top to indulge in creative license. ... Read More
Rating:  - Just Fun
This novel is irreverent, immature, silly and just plain old fun. Isaac Adamson is an author it seems that just refuses to take himself too seriously. If you are looking for "important" literature, or deep spiritual insights find something else. But if enjoy campy martial arts and noir-like satire or you just want to suspend your disbelief and have a good time without having to think too hard, read "Tokyo Suckerpunch".
I for one am looking forward to reading the rest of the Billy Chaka novels.
Rating: - Tokyo Suckerpunch - Only For Suckers
This book promised to be funny, entertaining and above all eye-opening, but I must say, it was just plain stupid.
Adaamson certainly knows a lot about Japanese culture, and a lot of it he seems to interject meaninglessly, as though to say, "I really know a lot about Japanese culture." But this sort of thing falls really short when he starts making mistakes - it's called yakitori, not "yakatori" and a yukata, not a "yakata".
If you have a below average IQ, please read this book. It ... Read More
Rating:  - Couldn't finish it
Couldn't get to the middle, even. I agree with some of the other reviewers: the protagonist seemed to be the author's wish-fulfillment, the writing is not so good. For some reason, the author's humor just did not get to me. I could tell it was supposed to be funny but it just didn't hit me. The main thing going for this book is that it's easy to read.
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