Declare Epithetical Books Kill Your Friends
| Title | : | Kill Your Friends |
| Author | : | John Niven |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 323 pages |
| Published | : | February 7th 2008 by Heinemann (first published February 4th 2008) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Music. Humor. Contemporary. Comedy |
John Niven
Paperback | Pages: 323 pages Rating: 3.8 | 7209 Users | 559 Reviews
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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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| Original Title: | Kill Your Friends |
| ISBN: | 043401799X (ISBN13: 9780434017997) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Steven Stelfox |
Rating Epithetical Books Kill Your Friends
Ratings: 3.8 From 7209 Users | 559 ReviewsCrit Epithetical Books Kill Your Friends
Charmless, derivative, dated rubbish. It captures the worst of the late 1990s, which I suppose is an achievement of sorts, but in the style of an 18 year old who has swallowed Brett Easton Ellis whole and tried to reproduce him minus the satire and wit. Dont get me wrong, Im a sucker for a misanthropic anti-hero, which I suppose is why I picked this up despite the clear warning signs in the blurb. What Im not so keen on is crude, joyless misogyny of the type that largely went of fashion with FHMSoundtrack - D:Ream - things can only get betterIt is 1997 - the time of Cool Britannia and Things Can Only Get Better. Tony Blair is the fresh faced Prime Minister of a Britain that is newly energised, forward looking and on the upSoundtrack - Stiff Little Fingers - Rough Trade / Pulp - Common People / The Clash - Death or GloryStephen Stelfox is an A&R man for a London based record company. It is his job to spot and nurture new bands. Sadly the job is all about securing product to sell to
DNF at page 102 Kill Your Friends is basically a diatribe of the music industry in England in the 90's, centring around the main character of Steven Stelfox, working as an A&R man at a record company. It is filled with disgusting, immoral and drug addicted people of which Stelfox is one of the worst. This book is horrible & yet utterly fascinating at the same time - no wonder people are cynical in the music industry! The language is crude, debauched, snide & totally politically
Edit:American Psycho ripoffish. love it... i finally got the sequel Kill 'Em All and i decided to reread this. will i finish this? who knows. it depends on my mood. will probably give up because i also have to study for my exams. also it's not like i'm ever at home sooo.......I got it mostly because i loved the movie and later found out that it was based on a book. it was funny and dark and honestly even though the protagonist is an asshole i dig him. if you like dark humor shit you should check
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
As I'm always on the lookout for humour, dark or light (as long as it's of the intelligent kind), I fell victim to Kill Your Friends by John Niven whose novel The Second Coming I'd read and enjoyed, when I saw The Times called it "Cripplingly funny" and other critics sang the same tune.Well, it isn't cripplingly funny. It has maybe a handful funny moments, but as as a whole it is vile, degrading and all in all pretty boring. Once you make it through the first two chapters, you may as well stop,
It's 1997 in London and Steven Stelfox, an angry, coked up, A&R guy at a major record label is trying to survive in the business. With no ability to judge music, or understand where music is going he gets ahead by doing in his associates at work. From setting them up to be arrested to murdering them, there are no limits to what this racist, sexist psychopath will do. From everything I've read about the music business Niven's descriptions of how it's run and the type of people working in the
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