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Scharfzüngig und wunderbar komisch Kennedy Marr ist ein Autor der alten Schule. Irisch, zynisch bis zum Anschlag, ein Borderline-Alkoholiker und Sex-Süchtiger. Sein Mantra lautet: hart trinken, gut essen und jede Frau flachlegen, die bei drei. Straight White Male: Roman | Niven, John, Glietsch, Stephan | ISBN: | Kostenloser Versand für alle Bücher mit Versand und Verkauf duch. Originaltitel: Straight White Male. Originalverlag: Heineman. Taschenbuch, Broschur, Seiten, 11,8 x 18,7 cm. ISBN: Thalia: Infos zu Autor, Inhalt und Bewertungen ❤ Jetzt»Straight White Male«nach Hause oder Ihre Filiale vor Ort bestellen! Inhaltsangabe zu "Straight White Male". Scharfzüngig und wunderbar komisch. Kennedy Marr ist ein Autor der alten Schule. Irisch, zynisch bis zum Anschlag. Übersetzung im Kontext von „a straight white guy“ in Englisch-Deutsch von Reverso Context: True, but if you were a straight white guy who played football, you. Titel:Straight white male. Untertitel:Roman. Reihe: Heyne Hardcore. Autor: Niven, John. Jahr: Sprache: Deutsch. Umfang: S. Voraussichtlich verfügbar.
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Er war direkt und tabulos. Was nun folgt, ist eigentlich ein Entwicklungsroman, denn der Leser erlebt, wie sich die Figur Kennedy Marr zunehmend mit Sinn und Unsinn seines Lebens auseinandersetzt, Verpasstes betrauert, Getanes bereut und dabei trotzdem von einer Deutschland Superstar Situation in die nächste stolpert. Er ist mir als Leserin zunächst völlig unsympathisch, der totale Macho, der in jeder Frau ein Sexobjekt sieht. Cover dpi. E-Mail: service hugendubel. Entdecken Sie mehr. Kennedy Marr ist ein Schwein. Er holt sich vom Leben, Les Miserables Deutsch er kriegen kann.We see Marr become, if not reformed, more reflective. He returns to the artistic light and veers away from the production of carbon-copy Hollywood fayre.
As an exposition on the corrupting influence of money, of power and of success, this is an excellent novel, but there's something else bubbling just below the surface.
There's a whole lot of pain here. Niven is a tortured soul, I think. He lost his brother to suicide and he has used the pain of his parting to craft a novel here.
It felt at times as if the book was a sort of creative outlet for the author and a way to let off steam. It shows because the work is real, the pain is really there and I can't help but admire the man for producing something so finely crafted as a result of his struggle.
Perhaps the most impressive aspect of this book is the way that Niven addresses such pain with a biting, wry and often hilarious commentary.
I nearly cried with laughter on several occasions, often accompanied by a great deal of guilt at the subject matter, or Niven's language.
I honestly can't offer a criticism off his book. Perhaps it's not for those offended by foul language, but this is a new favourite of mine, and between Straight While Male, Kill Your Friends and The Second Coming, John Niven is a new, and firm, favourite author of mine.
Well done, sir. Aug 10, Ian Mapp rated it it was amazing Shelves: lad-lit , lit-fict , humour. No-one writes like John Niven. This could be filed under a straight forward lad lit.
It's over the top but as funny as anything that is out there. But there is so much more to the book than that. Our hero - Kennedy Marr - is in his mid forties.
He is a successful author. Well, at least he used to be. He last wrote a book several years ago, having now sold his soul to the Hollywood machine.
He is also cartoonish in his over-the topness. The book opens with what you expect from Niven. An hilarious set No-one writes like John Niven.
An hilarious set piece of the most excessive piece of self abuse committed to page. And that could be the tone for the rest of the book. It would certainly serve as a very funny distraction.
We then lead more about Marr. He is raging against middle age in everyway possible. Drink, drugs, sex. The lot. He has a daughter and at least one ex-wife it may have been two - some of the detail gets lost and he is the most selfish man known to literature.
He has a financial crisis with the tax man and is forced to come back to England to work for a year in a university.
This is to gain the prize money for a coveted literature prize. This sets the book for him having to face his family mother is dying, sister is already dead, brother is the exact opposite and his ex wife and daughter.
Oh - and there is something medically wrong with the part of his anatomy that has suffered the next amount of abuse after his liver. The book works superbly.
The theme is a constant rage against death, which can only be cheated by living well. Marr lives far too well, but you get the point.
There are entire passages of the book that just fly by - including a breathless last 40 pages where Marr makes a decision as a result of view spoiler [he mas been misdiagnosed by a quack who tells him little Marr has to come off.
He tries to go out in a blaze of London glory hide spoiler ]. The book simply cannot be put down at this point.
This book is hilarious, has a message and although initially, I didn't like the end to much, on reflection it works.
Best for a while. Jul 30, Guinevere rated it it was amazing. I have to say that this is an incredibly human book. More than any book I've read in a long time, maybe ever.
And the humanity is most found in the little things, and those little moments are so precious and so real, so pertinent. Beyond that, I think it's really cool that the author was able to make the over-arching story speak to me.
I thought I would really Wow I thought I would really dislike this main character but instead he was so blunderingly real in the little ways that his bigger picture still somehow works.
I think it is serious art to make this happen. I received this book via a Goodreads giveaway and what a great find. I haven't read anything else by this author but I will!
Dec 18, Lucy Aughney rated it it was ok. Unfunny and lethally self indulgent, Straight White Male took about a hundred pages too long to get Kennedy to the UK and then failed to deliver any collegiate, fish out of water humour.
Pointless, legless and a bore, much like Kennedy Marr. Jun 18, Marie-Anne rated it did not like it. An ageing, inexplicably successful, narcissistic shit begins to feel intense pity for himself.
No amount of quoting Yeats and James Joyce could make this character likeable or believable as a talented writer or human being.
Impossible to care about his fate. Oct 15, Emma Taylor rated it it was amazing Shelves: re-reads , I laughed through the first half and cried through the second.
Niven's characterisation is verging on perfect! Worst book that I read to the very end, just because it was a present.
Jan 28, Mel rated it really liked it. Jul 12, Yousra rated it really liked it Shelves: owned , english-books , I loved it all! I loved the simple writing style!
I lived every strugle Keendy was feeling! I laughed a million times and cried three! I loved how its so simple yet so good!
Can't wait to read Kill Your Friends for the same writer! Nov 20, Ian Pindar rated it it was amazing. Another absolute belter, no one does male modern misogynist hedonistic misanthropic mid-life crises like Niven.
It is beautifully referenced to some of the great male writers, without descending into prescriptive non-fiction.
I appreciate the amount of research this can take, to then use only a slither of it. The plot and the story line move along nicely, but it is the metaphors and the cultural references that make you giggle fiendishly out loud.
I am braced for the day when I read another of his books and it is not a five starrer, I think a small part of me might just die.
Until then I cannot recommend the two aforementioned books enough. The Writing IMP What he had written, his angle on the world, his idea of how we talk, think and interact with one another, had been taken to market.
And the people at the market, the public, had resoundingly said, 'No thank you. We're good. The main character is a total twat who, while is engaging, was utterly predictable.
Jul 24, James rated it did not like it Shelves: reviewed. A tedious and trivial book. It delights in wallowing in its own vulgarity. The deeply unpleasant main character bored me very quickly and into the bin it went after a half an evenings effort.
Aug 28, Namita. Funny and frivolous mostly but manages to have a 'moral of the story' finish and some laugh out loud and touching moments.
Jun 27, Andrew rated it liked it. A note before this review begins: I am somewhat of a sucker for stories about the debauched writer, for the alcoholic wordsmith that spills page after page of blinding prose as quickly as he pours wine and beer down his throat.
I don't quite know why, but I suspect a pang of envy at their lifestyle. Niven's Kennedy Marr is the epitome of the unruly author.
Already a millionaire success story living it up in LA, Marr's life is a spinning blade of breakages. He breaks records, hearts, promises, bus A note before this review begins: I am somewhat of a sucker for stories about the debauched writer, for the alcoholic wordsmith that spills page after page of blinding prose as quickly as he pours wine and beer down his throat.
He breaks records, hearts, promises, business contracts and possibly hymens as he writes and fucks his way through the slime that is the movie industry.
When he moves back to the UK to undertake an academic position for a year in order to satisfy the prerequisite to receiving an award , the snobbery he's acclimatised to in Hollywood is replaced by the harsh reality of the relationships he left crumbling.
His consumption of women and drink is met with shaking heads only and the expectations of him as a newly-appointed faculty member throw him into sobering self reflection.
With "Straight White Male", all the hallmarks of a good 'writer-drinks-and-screws-too-much' are all present, but with a serving of off-colour humour which keeps the story on the lighthearted side until it ultimately culminates into a dark and serious revelation.
Kennedy Marr is at times unlikable and in one or two instances, utterly detestable. Yet it's obvious that his debauchery is a mask that is seemingly covering something of a gentle poet within.
He has the foul mouth, the iron liver and authorial integrity of Charles Bukowski, but there's a hint of the quiet intellectual of Kingsley Amis hidden away in there that only seems to show itself to the reader.
He is a character who is a lot more complicated than the cliches he indulges in. The life he chose is at odds with the life he didn't opt for.
He chose a cold and varied sex life over a warm family life. He chose a Hollywood home over a semi-detached in England.
He chose the spoils of fame over the intellectual challenges of academia. I suspect if you were to take all the aspects of Marr that are deep down, of the life he could have lived but steered against it, you could build an entirely new character from those pieces, completely alien to the Kennedy we know in the book.
The story itself is a heavy mixture of the fictional author's life built on infamy and the drunken gaze. At times the jokes punch through like a comedian who fears he's losing the audience so resorts to loud obnoxious swearing.
That's not to say the humour doesn't work. It fits Kennedy perfectly and feeds into a character we already know as being sardonic, manic and showing his true colours as a famous writer who's had enough.
The jokes and insults feel a necessary part of the story as it progresses into emotional scenes and flashbacks. These moments are not handled delicately as the presence of loss and regret come flooding in with no sign of stopping.
Niven breaks the reader's hearts as much as Marr breaks the hearts of the women in his life. It is just such a shame that this build up of powerful emotion has such a pitiful pay off towards the end.
It's a disappointing turn of events for what I felt was Niven's strongest writing point. I felt something and then that something was denied to me.
Maybe that was Niven's own 'fuck you' from his position as a man who perhaps saw himself in his protagonist.
The protagonist is a selfish writer in his forties who is past his best but still very wealthy. He spends his money mainly for exclusive food, is an alcohol addict, starts brawlings when drunk, and his biggest hobby is casual sex with younger women.
Nobody is important to him and he postpones the long due visit to his dying mother. So, not very likeable at all. Nevertheless, John Niven seems to sympathise with his protagonist, who, inevitably, has feelings too and whines about his failed marriages, his neglected child and his long dead sister.
The problem is: The protagonist is unable to change and drowns in self-pity. All he does is uncorking the next bottle of Whiskey and hunting down the next sex adventure.
Women seem to be enthusiastic about this guy who is publicly pissing his pants — must be the money.
Or the genius. The Guardian. Retrieved 17 May Retrieved April 24, The New Yorker. Retrieved 2 August The Broadway Blog. Retrieved 10 August The New York times.
Namespaces Article Talk. I'll be asked to move heavy loads to someone's car or other menial work, even though it's not in my purview, because, hey, I'm the white guy, so somehow I'm supposed to be able to do it, even though I've expressly stated my physical limitations before.
I have been denied jobs because "well, we have enough guys right now; we really need to hire more minorities. There's a sensitivity that protects women and minorities.
There's a worry about being offensive, or about seeming improper. People aren't afraid to tread on the toes of white guys, because of this fucking myth that somehow, white guys have life easier, so giving them more work will somehow make their lives harder.
What, do you think minorities are the only people who feel unsafe walking outside at night? I've had a police chopper follow me with a searchlight before.
I've had I hear white dudes get more money—well, that's bullshit. Many of my white friends were, and are, dirt poor. Always have been.
One of my friends happens to be quite good at robbing people, because when he was a kid, that was what he had to do to survive in his abusive household.
Again and again, we get back to this oft-repeated refrain: "well, you're white, so life's easier for you, so it's okay for us to be harder.
One of the most inspiring teachers I ever had, a former cop, later lawyer, once told me how, at a family barbecue, he was approached by several family members and asked why he worked for such a racist university.
His reply to them was simple: "because I was the only one of you who tried to go to college. Ya'll just sit around and expect life to give you something, but me, and all those white teachers I work with?
We went to school and we got our doctorates in our respective programs; they're not going to hire people with your GEDs or high school diplomas—they want the best.
Don't you dare ever call them racist—the simple fact is that none of you gave a damn and tried. My father grew up on a farm and had severe learning difficulties.
His parents both had to work, his dad working for the power company and his mom at the local feed store. He grew up in a three bedroom house with four other siblings.
He worked his ass off through fourteen years of schooling, and finally got his doctorate. As a result, he's made a decent amount of money—though not enough to take care of my family.
He grew up in a town where most of the kids ended up dying or went to jail. He became a far greater man than anyone expected, despite the derision for his learning difficulties and opposition from his teachers one planned to flunk my father just before he presented his doctoral thesis, but another teacher, who had discovered the plan, told my dad one day with the other professor standing there.
Many of us have hard lives. The amount of melanin in our skin doesn't determine how easy or hard life is for us—in fact, as I've said, repeatedly, many people put excess expectations on white guys simply because of this foolish, preconceived notion that being white makes life easier.
I know no one right now with a life harder than mine. I'm in more pain than most of you can imagine. I'm incredibly exhausted all the time.
I take around thirty pills a day to stay alive, and chances are that I'll still only live out a portion of a normal life. In a few weeks , I will be homeless, because my dad's boss doesn't want my dad's lab to compete with his, despite the money it makes for the company.
The last time she blew up, she nearly fired me mid-conversation. I fight for everything I get. I watch others just coast by, getting jobs or financial aid or promotions or not being yelled at or getting lucky breaks whatever just because Somehow, their life is harder.
I'm the white guy, so life's good! No obstacles here! It's all smooth sailing. Yeah, right. Where's my lucky break? Where's all this money I'm supposed to have for being a white guy?
Ein Geschenk von Bob 0. Es folgten zahlreiche weitere Romane, darunter Kultklassiker wie Coma oder Gott bewahre. White guysounded young, maybe drugged out. Verwunderlich, dass Deutsche Fernsehfilme wenige seiner Angebeteten jeweils immer zu allem bereit waren und sind. Abwarts Leben 0. Er überlebt trotzdem und man muss ihm einfach folgen. Somit muss er sich mit dem "Seelenklempner" herumschlagen - was durchaus auf Gegenseitigkeit beruht. Verifizierter Kauf. Übersetzt von Stephan Glietsch Heyne Taschenbuch Genau: 1. Ist es auch. Was wohl Star Wars Das Erwachen Der Macht 3d Blu Ray oder wichtig ist im Leben, seine Freiheit und seine Begierden oder soziale Zwänge und Verantwortung zu übernehmen. Kurz: Der Erfolgsschriftsteller, arrivierte und begehrte Drehbuchschreiber Kennedy Marr ist ein Supergirl Schauspielerin Arschloch, nur seinen hedonistischen Instinkten verschrieben, scheut vor jeder Pflicht, Routine zurück. Herrlich, wie sich seine Hauptfigur, einem Überschuss an Testosteron nicht abgeneigt, in immer neue Affären stürzt. Schwanzgesteuert pflügt der Mittvierziger durch sein Leben. Straight White Male (Paperback). Scharfzüngig und wunderbar komischKennedy Marr ist ein Autor der alten Schule. Irisch, zynisch bis zum Anschlag, ein. straight white maleNews, Kritiken, Songs, Alben, Streams und mehr Mehr als ein Jahrzehnt machten die Rolling Stones die Rockmusik zu dem, was man. Straight White Male, Taschenbuch von John Niven bei teknox.eu Portofrei bestellen oder in der Filiale abholen.
Sein Mantra lautet: hart trinken, gut essen und jede Frau flachlegen, die bei drei nicht auf den Bäumen Helen Baxendale. Neben Romanen schreibt John Niven Drehbücher. In Barbie Und Ihre Schwestern In Das Große Hundeabenteuer Kinox wird Dr. Jekyll für einen hoch dotierten Literaturpreis vorgeschlagen. Bezorgopties We bieden verschillende opties aan voor het bezorgen of ophalen van je bestelling. Andere verkopers 1. Herzerfrischender Sarkasmus ist eben nur gut verträglich, wenn man es zulassen kann, mitunter selbst ein paar Federn álvaro Morte lassen. 
The expected publication date is October 7, This story provided quite the food for thought for me. I simply hated him.
The problem is he was meant to be and this is where I struggled. Alas what is one to do? Carry on with an open mind and read the story. There were moments of humour throughout the story.
One example that comes to mind is the fight on the plane. I also highly enjoyed the moments where Kennedy went head to head with Drummond and literally got in his head.
If he was more of a likeable character I would have been cheering him on as he "one upped" him. There were also moments of sadness when Kennedy is remembering his sister.
This gives a complex view in to the many layers of Kennedy beyond just the repulsive womanizing jerk he is. Also the scenes with his mother are touching and show just how damaged he is.
I believe this is a story about redemption however I have to admit I am not really sure it occurs. In Kennedy, Niven created a character that was so far gone and self absorbed that I almost didn't want redemption.
I wanted him to succumb to his self destructive ways. This is not going to be a story for everyone. I for one found it to be too much however I can also see how some may enjoy the humour buried in the pages.
It is always difficult to decide how you feel about a book when the main character is purposefully written to be so obnoxious. While I can appreciate some aspects to the book it really wasn't for me.
That being said I urge others to form their own opinions on this work as it really is all about personal taste Oct 10, Charles Harris rated it really liked it Shelves: satire , literary-fiction.
How do you succeed in creating a difficult central character, indeed a quite obnoxious one, and yet persuade your readers to fall in love with him.
John Niven provides a textbook example in this scintillating, very funny and ultimately surprisingly moving satire, the story of a Falstaffian Irish screenwriter, mired in his own deep flaws.
Kennedy Marr is no pale genius blushing unseen. He fully admits that he's sold out, promising himself that he'll tell philistine producers where to go, but const How do you succeed in creating a difficult central character, indeed a quite obnoxious one, and yet persuade your readers to fall in love with him.
He fully admits that he's sold out, promising himself that he'll tell philistine producers where to go, but constantly taking the money instead.
And even if he's hard-drinking, dysfunctional and a disaster with money and personal relationships, he's good at his job. Now, however, having spent even more money than the large amounts he's earned, he is forced to take a commission which involves ruining the edit of one of the best movies he's ever seen, while teaching in a university alongside his scathingly estranged ex-wife.
So how on earth does Niven get us to care about, even love, this horrendous car-crash of a man? His techniques are instructive for all writers.
One, he gives Marr a full armoury of strengths. Marr is witty, acute, intelligent, a better observer of people than any of the others around him and his own worst critic.
And he's brave. He says and does the kind of things we dream of saying and doing, but don't dare. And we always admire that. Two, Niven ensures Marr is in pain.
He may be difficult and self-centred, but he truly suffers. Most of all, he realises that we all die. Worse, we die whether we are good at our jobs or bad, whether we are perfect husbands and fathers, or complete failures.
There is no escape. Three, the other characters pale by comparison - from his acerbic intellectual wife to his ghastly but strangely charismatic Hollywood producer, to the jealous rival professor whose single highbrow novel sounds like hell on paper.
Four, all the characters and settings are rounded and credible, even when being sent up. Just when you think Niven has pushed his luck too far, he veers away from the cliff edge and keeps it real.
What you gradually realise spoiler alert is that Niven has broken the cardinal rule of character - Marr has no journey.
As a reader, you are waiting for the moment when things get so bad that he's forced to face his flaws. The running joke of this big shaggy-dog yarn is that he never does.
Every time Marr is about to fail, something good happens to him. He's like the cartoon character who is always being killed and yet always lives.
He's incorrigible. And we start to love him for it. Of course, if you don't get the joke, then you may grow impatient with the story.
Once you twig, however, you find you're just enjoying the roller-coaster ride. Waiting to see just how close Marr can come to disaster and yet still come up smiling, preferably in a five-star restaurant with a glass in his hand.
It's a risky book for that reason, but great fun. I've wanted to read John Niven for some time now, since I heard he's one of the rare British writers working with satire.
Now I have, I'm going to be reading - and learning - more. I was unsure about this book for the first third or so, however it improves as it goes along as it effectively satirises the American film industry, publishing, English academia, and, the biggest cliche of all, the middle-aged novelist trying to come to terms with his own mo Many moons ago I read Kill Your Friends and I loved it.
I was unsure about this book for the first third or so, however it improves as it goes along as it effectively satirises the American film industry, publishing, English academia, and, the biggest cliche of all, the middle-aged novelist trying to come to terms with his own mortality.
By the end, I'd concluded it was touching, funny, quietly profound and eminently readable. And that, as you will probably agree, is a winning combination.
Feb 25, Roy Elmer rated it it was amazing Shelves: my-favourite-books , contemporary-literature , angry-young-man.
Straight White Male starts out like a sort of angry young man lad-fiction novel. The premise of the mid 40's, successful in work but not in life sexual predator, being forced by circumstances back in to the more mundane.
It starts that way, but really all Niven who I am increasingly becoming sure is a genuinely gifted writer does all of this to wrong foot his readership.
Kennedy Marr, the aforementioned philanderer, is a deeply tormented man. His family has fallen apart, he can't seem to care Straight White Male starts out like a sort of angry young man lad-fiction novel.
His family has fallen apart, he can't seem to care about anyone much and while he is making and spending obscene amounts of money, he is doing so by disavowing his own beliefs; not morality, for he has none, but more in terms of artistic credibility.
Straight White Male, to give it a bit of a Marxist slant, is a novelised exposition of the affect that wealth and capitalism have on the power and fidelity of art.
We see John Niven portray Marr as a genuinely intelligent man. Marr is a man of biting intellect, a literary soul with troubled and existential thoughts who quotes high literature from a range of eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth century authors.
He thinks in literary terms, turning every scenario in to verse, or prose, or the foundation of some work or other. What we also see is how, once popular, Marr's creative vision and integrity are corrupted by that very same success.
Rather than produce work of quality, he rehashes screenplays and lives off the generous checks and studio benefits.
Marr appears to sacrifice his creative soul and lives the hedonistic lifestyle as a result. All of this changes through the novel as we see Marr's reflections on his family, on his relatives, on the mistakes that he has made and the decisions that have affected those around him.
We see Marr become, if not reformed, more reflective. He returns to the artistic light and veers away from the production of carbon-copy Hollywood fayre.
As an exposition on the corrupting influence of money, of power and of success, this is an excellent novel, but there's something else bubbling just below the surface.
There's a whole lot of pain here. Niven is a tortured soul, I think. He lost his brother to suicide and he has used the pain of his parting to craft a novel here.
It felt at times as if the book was a sort of creative outlet for the author and a way to let off steam. It shows because the work is real, the pain is really there and I can't help but admire the man for producing something so finely crafted as a result of his struggle.
Perhaps the most impressive aspect of this book is the way that Niven addresses such pain with a biting, wry and often hilarious commentary.
I nearly cried with laughter on several occasions, often accompanied by a great deal of guilt at the subject matter, or Niven's language.
I honestly can't offer a criticism off his book. Perhaps it's not for those offended by foul language, but this is a new favourite of mine, and between Straight While Male, Kill Your Friends and The Second Coming, John Niven is a new, and firm, favourite author of mine.
Well done, sir. Aug 10, Ian Mapp rated it it was amazing Shelves: lad-lit , lit-fict , humour. No-one writes like John Niven.
This could be filed under a straight forward lad lit. It's over the top but as funny as anything that is out there. But there is so much more to the book than that.
Our hero - Kennedy Marr - is in his mid forties. He is a successful author. Well, at least he used to be.
He last wrote a book several years ago, having now sold his soul to the Hollywood machine. He is also cartoonish in his over-the topness. The book opens with what you expect from Niven.
An hilarious set No-one writes like John Niven. An hilarious set piece of the most excessive piece of self abuse committed to page. And that could be the tone for the rest of the book.
It would certainly serve as a very funny distraction. We then lead more about Marr. He is raging against middle age in everyway possible.
Drink, drugs, sex. The lot. He has a daughter and at least one ex-wife it may have been two - some of the detail gets lost and he is the most selfish man known to literature.
He has a financial crisis with the tax man and is forced to come back to England to work for a year in a university. This is to gain the prize money for a coveted literature prize.
This sets the book for him having to face his family mother is dying, sister is already dead, brother is the exact opposite and his ex wife and daughter.
Oh - and there is something medically wrong with the part of his anatomy that has suffered the next amount of abuse after his liver. The book works superbly.
The theme is a constant rage against death, which can only be cheated by living well. Marr lives far too well, but you get the point.
There are entire passages of the book that just fly by - including a breathless last 40 pages where Marr makes a decision as a result of view spoiler [he mas been misdiagnosed by a quack who tells him little Marr has to come off.
He tries to go out in a blaze of London glory hide spoiler ]. The book simply cannot be put down at this point. This book is hilarious, has a message and although initially, I didn't like the end to much, on reflection it works.
Best for a while. Jul 30, Guinevere rated it it was amazing. I have to say that this is an incredibly human book. More than any book I've read in a long time, maybe ever.
And the humanity is most found in the little things, and those little moments are so precious and so real, so pertinent. Beyond that, I think it's really cool that the author was able to make the over-arching story speak to me.
I thought I would really Wow I thought I would really dislike this main character but instead he was so blunderingly real in the little ways that his bigger picture still somehow works.
I think it is serious art to make this happen. I received this book via a Goodreads giveaway and what a great find.
I haven't read anything else by this author but I will! Many of my white friends were, and are, dirt poor. Always have been. One of my friends happens to be quite good at robbing people, because when he was a kid, that was what he had to do to survive in his abusive household.
Again and again, we get back to this oft-repeated refrain: "well, you're white, so life's easier for you, so it's okay for us to be harder.
One of the most inspiring teachers I ever had, a former cop, later lawyer, once told me how, at a family barbecue, he was approached by several family members and asked why he worked for such a racist university.
His reply to them was simple: "because I was the only one of you who tried to go to college. Ya'll just sit around and expect life to give you something, but me, and all those white teachers I work with?
We went to school and we got our doctorates in our respective programs; they're not going to hire people with your GEDs or high school diplomas—they want the best.
Don't you dare ever call them racist—the simple fact is that none of you gave a damn and tried. My father grew up on a farm and had severe learning difficulties.
His parents both had to work, his dad working for the power company and his mom at the local feed store.
He grew up in a three bedroom house with four other siblings. He worked his ass off through fourteen years of schooling, and finally got his doctorate.
As a result, he's made a decent amount of money—though not enough to take care of my family. He grew up in a town where most of the kids ended up dying or went to jail.
He became a far greater man than anyone expected, despite the derision for his learning difficulties and opposition from his teachers one planned to flunk my father just before he presented his doctoral thesis, but another teacher, who had discovered the plan, told my dad one day with the other professor standing there.
Many of us have hard lives. The amount of melanin in our skin doesn't determine how easy or hard life is for us—in fact, as I've said, repeatedly, many people put excess expectations on white guys simply because of this foolish, preconceived notion that being white makes life easier.
I know no one right now with a life harder than mine. I'm in more pain than most of you can imagine. I'm incredibly exhausted all the time.
I take around thirty pills a day to stay alive, and chances are that I'll still only live out a portion of a normal life. In a few weeks , I will be homeless, because my dad's boss doesn't want my dad's lab to compete with his, despite the money it makes for the company.
The last time she blew up, she nearly fired me mid-conversation. I fight for everything I get. I watch others just coast by, getting jobs or financial aid or promotions or not being yelled at or getting lucky breaks whatever just because Somehow, their life is harder.
I'm the white guy, so life's good! No obstacles here! It's all smooth sailing. Yeah, right. Where's my lucky break? Where's all this money I'm supposed to have for being a white guy?
When do people act nicer to me just because of the color of my skin? How am I going to be able to afford a house, much less a decent school? When do things go right for me?
They fucking don't. I can't even remember the last good day I had. You stupid fucks. Learn to see people based on who they are and the unique situations surrounding them.
As soon as you start generalizing people based on the color of the skin, who they want to fuck, or just what is between their legs, you become a racist, sexist, and whateverelse cunt.
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