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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 | : | First 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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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 thanThis book is daaaaaaark. If it was any blacker you'd need UV light to read it. My initial impression was that it was 'American Psycho' minus the violence. Then the violence began.Whereas 'American Psycho' parodied American corporate 80s excess to the extreme, 'Kill Your Friends' parodies the record industry in 90s Britain. Steven Stelfox is an A&R man for a well-known music label in 1997's London. His job is to discover hits and make the company a buttload of money. He doesn't spend a lot of
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
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
I was given this book and The Second Coming in a publisher's double offer, neatly wrapped up together in a cellophane wrapper. I can only surmise that this is the literary equivalent of someone posting two turds in an envelope through your letter box.I gave up reading this book after 100 pages. Perhaps it's because I have read so many good books recently that this one seemed awful in comparison; perhaps it just is a terrible book? Either way, I couldn't stand the thought of forcing myself to
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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