RAGE IS BACK gives up a dramatic and unglamorous opening into the amazing and sometimes terrifying world of above and underground graffiti train painting.

The ripping along plot slows only when Cloud gets busted and the unreliable narrator scene evolves:

"Don't forget, those things we wrote on the trains were words. We didn't ramble on with them, either.
Said what we had to say and stepped. More than I can say for some of the books I read in the joint.
Boring a mufucka locked in an eight-by-ten for years on top of years, now that's a fuckin accomplishment."

I then teased along on reading the plans for the ball-busting train bombing of all times, but loved the upshot.

Adam Mansbach makes readers feel they are REALLY THERE with his characters, wit, and locales, from the miles
underground in New York City to a hidden jungle, from train yards to the magic missing day, and beyond... ( )

Even though I didn't understand half of what the narrator was talking about, I still think this book was amazing. His use of the graffiti-speak was impressive. I simply loved the narrator's voice-it was equal parts cynical and naive, and always funny (even during the bleak moments). ( )

Maybe 3.5. Parts I loved. Parts I kind of slogged through. ( )

Maybe 3.5. Parts I loved. Parts I kind of slogged through. ( )

Maybe 3.5. Parts I loved. Parts I kind of slogged through. ( )