La gang del pensiero

Don't ever try to read this book on an airplane. People will think you're crazy on accounts of your random bursts of hysterical laughter. It's weird, it's hysterical, it's wrong on many levels and it uses the letter "z" more than any other book in the history of novels. In short, it's perfect.

As an editor, how can I not like a novel in which an underachieving Oxford don is handcuffed to a radiator until he writes his manuscript? And then produces something so bad that his editor has to write the book? Extraordinarily funny. Bank robbery on philosophical principles.

First book I've opted for from my GR recommendations algorithm. And algy me old mate, you did a helluva job. From page 1 Fisher's voice gets right inside you and carries you throughout its length. This book joining my select pantheon of books with a laugh out loud moment on virtually every page, alon Leggi tutto

Late in this novel, just a few thousand thankful words away from the end, the narrator has this to say: The virtue of self-discipline is a great one, and one of my cheif deficiencies, . . This could be the engine that runs The Thought Gang . Not its plot so much but its style. Fischer doesn't know wh Leggi tutto

La doverosa premessa è che a me il surreale piace. Ci sguazzo proprio. L'ironia anche, l'umorismo pure. Tra i miei autori preferiti figurano Douglas Adams e Christopher Moore, diamine. Però c'è una linea sottile tra quello che mi appare simpatico/divertente/ammiccante/geniale e il "adesso però anche Leggi tutto

Forget the book jacket netherworld, where "darkly comic," "sardonic," "sly," "witty," "riotous," and "uproarious" all mean "you won't laugh once." End to end, only the opening of Todd McEwan's Arithmetic Town and Redmond O'Hanlon's travelogues rival this novel for laughs per page. Read this in public Leggi tutto

Esperaba otra cosa, tal vez esa sea la causa de la desilusión...Fischer construye una historia ágil, liviana, que queda en un segundo plano ante el lenguaje irónico acorde a los rasgos del cínico protagonista de la novela. Pero encuentro dos importantes inconvenientes: en primer lugar, el autor no t Leggi tutto

Eddie Coffin è un filosofo completamente allo sbando che desidera soltanto uscire di scena, stordendosi con classe. Ma quando il destino, o l’indolenza, ci mettono lo zampino, i piani potrebbero saltare. Così Eddie finisce per essere un filosofo allo sbando, ma senza più un soldo. Ed è proprio in que Leggi tutto