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| Original Title: | Kill Your Friends |
| ISBN: | 043401799X (ISBN13: 9780434017997) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Steven Stelfox |
John Niven
Paperback | Pages: 323 pages Rating: 3.8 | 7209 Users | 559 Reviews
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| Title | : | Kill Your Friends |
| Author | : | John Niven |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 323 pages |
| Published | : | February 7th 2008 by Heinemann (first published February 4th 2008) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Music. Humor. Contemporary. Comedy |
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It's not dog-eat-dog around here...it's dog-gang-rapes-dog-then-tortures-him-for-five-days-before-burying-him-alive-and-taking-out-every-motherfucker-the-dog-has-ever-known.Meet Steven Stelfox.
London 1997: New Labour is sweeping into power and Britpop is at its zenith. Twenty-seven-year-old A&R man Stelfox is slashing and burning his way through the music industry, a world where 'no one knows anything' and where careers are made and broken by chance and the fickle tastes of the general public - 'Yeah, those animals'.
Fuelled by greed and inhuman quantities of cocaine Stelfox blithely criss-crosses the globe ('New York, Cologne, Texas, Miami, Cannes: you shout at waiters and sign credit card slips and all that really changes is the quality of the porn') searching for the next hit record amid a relentless orgy of self-gratification.
But as the hits dry up and the industry begins to change, Stelfox must take the notion of cutthroat business practices to murderous new levels in a desperate attempt to salvage his career.
Kill Your Friends is a dark, satirical and hysterically funny evisceration of the record business, a place populated by frauds, charlatans and bluffers, where ambition is a higher currency than talent, and where it seems anything can be achieved - as long as you want it badly enough.
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Ratings: 3.8 From 7209 Users | 559 ReviewsRate Regarding Books Kill Your Friends
Vile, horrendous, racist chauvinist and utterly believable: protagonist Stelfox is the ultimate anti-hero.This is my favourite book. It is hilarious. I found myself reading it slack-jawed, mouth hanging open on the commute, then letting out a giggle at the most incredibly inappropriate things.Reading other reviews, some people have been offended by this book - which is no surprise. If you're easily offended, leave it on the shelf - or try and remember that it is a work of fiction in the firstI have literally just finished this book. I really struggled to give it a rating. It's hard to have enjoyed but hated a book so much all the way through. I was completely engrossed, I couldn't put it down, I needed to know what happened next. And yet I hated it all the way through. I've never loathed a character as much as I did. The amount of things that were happening, the language, the views of women and the music industry, the jumping about from one thing to another made me feel lost. The
Easily the winner of the funniest book of the year - possibly ever.There are more jokes and truths on one page of this book than in the whole of other works of fictions. Its hard to describe - a bit like Patrick Bateman from American Psycho going to indie discos.It tells the story of Steven Stelfox, an A and R man in the late 1990s and truely one of the most despicable charachters in fiction. His deeds are bad enough but you also get his inner monologue - the things he filters out are beyond
Hilarious!! If you like books like Trainspotting, check this out.
I didn't know whether to laugh or cry. This is without a doubt the most accurate depiction of the record industry that has been novelized. Having lived it myself during the same period this was about (late 90's) i had many a flashback. In order to really see something you have to step away and return with clarity. Although the main character in this novel, a London A&R rep trying to deal with the changing climate of the industry at the beginning of the internet age, abuses himself more than
While I like satire this book by John Niven is satire so vile, degrading and sort of scabrous that it was just too much. There's absolutely no nuance as it's just hammer away by Niven, scene after scene, chapter after chapter of debauched antics. Too bad too as the setting, the music Q & R world in Loncon circa 1997 is rife with the chances to ruffle some feathers. Niven though shows he has no restraint in anything--writing style, plot pacing, nothing. Usually for one of these books about a
This book is so awful, I couldn't even be bothered to finish it (which I usually don't do). Really, really horrible. The writer cannot pull off his Bret Easton Ellis impersonation and it is, quite frankly, a book even emptier and more astonishingly boring than Ellis' creations.
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