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	• I Like Being Killed: Stories Tibor Fischer Metropolitan Books, 2000 - 256 pages average customer review:based on 7 reviews view larger image
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The stories are interesting
studies of men in bad circumstances. However, they run much too long
to hold the reader's attention without interruption. The plights are
notable, but the characters lack qualities that allow you to empathize
with them. You find yourself wondering why the author didn't allow
something good to happen (by luck or by sheer force of will on the
part of the character) to prevent some of the stories from having
whiny lead characters. I read this book on the bus, and often found
myself becoming more interested in freeway traffic than the
stories.

After reading this book, reading additional titles by this
author is not high on my priority list.

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Positively WICKED

A wonderful introduction to Fischer's other books! It was the first Fischer book I had read, and I was instantly enthralled by his grasp of the characters. He has a real talent for getting inside the characters, and even if you hate them, you can't manage to put the book down. A truly incredible display of Fischer's wicked sense of humor!

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Not great, but mildly interesting.

I just finished this book. I liked the mood set by this book. Each story was an addition to this book being a complete book about failure. The characters were depressing, as well as the stories, but each had its dark humor. I think the big problem with these stories was the inexperience of this author in writing short stories. Most of these stories seemed to drag on a bit and this made the book seem a bit more boring than it should have. All together worth reading, but nothing spectacular here.

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Fiendishly funny and dark, here is a Canterbury Tales for the millennium, a vision of the New Europe where the young and bright live ultra-hip lives of noisy desperationTibor Fischer has been called "a Joseph Conrad with jokes" (The Sunday Times, London). Now he earns the title again with a story collection that ranges from the blackest, high-voltage humor to sober and moving pessimism about the sorry condition of humans at the new millennium. Here are those left behind by the vacuous nineties: a failed software designer who cannot connect with others, a failed artist, a failed cowboy, a failed solicitor-seducer, a bookseller primed for failure as he tries to read every book in the world, and a venomous stand-up comedienne who has fallen from grace. From London to the French Riviera, from Hamburg to Romania, in the new Europe only the ruthless succeed: the weak are cowed by the strong, the rich fleece the poor, and the ugly is bested by the surgically enhanced. Reveling in the absurdities of his characters' predicament's, Fischer rescues them from a relentlessly dark fate. Laced with exuberant narrative and matchless comic invention, I Like Being Killed reveals the struggle of intelligence to make sense of our twentry-first century world.

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