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Morally bankrupt A&R (artist and repertoire) man Steven Stelfox curses, drinks, and snorts his way through a cutthroat career in London's music industry.
As the twentieth century breathes its very last, with Britpop at its zenith, twenty-seven-year-old A&R (artist and repertoire) man Steven Stelfox is slashing and burning his way through London's music industry. Blithely crisscrossing the globe in search of the next megahit - fueled by greed and inhuman quantities of cocaine - Stelfox freely indulges in an unending orgy of self-gratification. But the industry is changing fast and the hits are drying up, and the only way he's going to salvage his sagging career is by taking the idea of ''cutthroat'' to murderous new levels.
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- Published on: 2015-01-06
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- Original language: English
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- Running time: 41400 seconds
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From Publishers Weekly
With the record industry in turmoil, this thoroughly twisted roman a clef from a former A&R insider couldn't seem timelier. Set in 1997, this debut novel follows the loathsome and morally bankrupt 27-year-old Steven Stelfox as he curses, drinks and snorts his way through a cutthroat career. Crass and bitter, Steven despises everything that originally inspired him, and as the bills pile up from his various illicit habits and ventures, he tries in vain to find the "next big thing" so he can secure another bundle of money. Satirizing Big Music, the novel brims with self-evident truths--as Steven explains, he usually only hits one in every 10 acts, but even that allows him to do better than most. As Steven's arrogance precariously struggles against a healthy dose of paranoia, he faces his ultimate nightmare: he might actually have to sober up, do some work and break out a decent record by a decent act. This is not for the easily offended, but readers with at least a slightly deranged bent will have a ball. (Jan.)
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From Booklist
This debut novel takes a withering look at the British music�business�in�the late 1990s, during�the hedonistic last gasp of a dying industry. Steven Stelfox is an A & R man with a major label who�is desperately searching for his next hit—when he isn’t inhaling Bloody Marys,�doing massive quantities of cocaine,�or watching porn. He’s all but given up on the angry black rapper Rage, who is working on his “concept” album;�instead, he’s�focused on�a group of Spice Girls wannabes, “the worst sort of sink-estate, single-mother, benefit-fraud trash imaginable.” And their music? “The biggest insult to humanity since a roomful of Nazis first cooed over the blueprints for Auschwitz.” Contemptuous of�musicians,�the public, and, most of all, any colleagues who show signs of working hard, Steven�prepares to save himself�with a murderously ambitious�plan to be named the head of A & R.�Niven, who spent 10 years working in the music industry, uses his insider knowledge and a racist, misogynistic lead character to produce a very dark,�viciously funny�novel. --Joanne Wilkinson
Review
''I loved Kill Your Friends. Who didn't? Scorched earth humor at its finest.'' --(Douglas Coupland, author of Microserfs)
''Hilariously dark and satirical.'' --(Library Journal)
''A very dark, viciously funny novel.'' --(Booklist)
''This is not for the easily offended, but readers with at least a slightly deranged bent will have a ball.'' --(Publishers Weekly)
''Kill Your Friends is the most exciting British novel since Trainspotting.'' --(Word magazine)
''Like the product of an unholy union between Bret Easton Ellis and Martin Amis...the reader is alternately shocked and left crying with laughter.'' --(Bookseller (London))
Most helpful customer reviews
20 of 21 people found the following review helpful.
A Winner!
By The_Fifer
Imagine a character so completely depraved, degenerated and perverted that he makes Hannibal Lecter seem like a Sunday school teacher. Now imagine that character fueled by a mountain of cocaine and an ocean of vodka. Now take away any sensitivity he may have learned for others of a different race, gender, physical capability, social class, postal code or sexual preference. Make him believe that there is nothing so important as the pursuit of money, put him in a nice suit, give him an expense account and turn him loose on the world without a modicum of care about the consequences of his actions to himself or others.
Now if I told you that you were going to read a novel centered on such a character, you might expect it to be a horror novel, or a thriller, maybe a mystery or police procedural. You would probably not expect that it would be the funniest thing you've read in years.
I will caution you here: if you don't think humor can possibly mix with buckets of blood, vomit, urine, feces and semen, or if you couldn't possibly laugh where there is blatant bigotry, or if wretched excess offends you to the point where you lose your sense of humor, this might not be the book for you.
If, however, you're possessed of a strong stomach and aren't easily offended, you're in for a treat.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful.
Insightful, acidic, vastly entertaining
By Aspi Havewala
There are lot of details woven into Niven's story. We get great insights into how talent is scouted, coaxed, cajoled and "discovered". In a deeply amusing and interesting story arc, Steven develops a girl band with virtually no talent in the hope that they can ride post-Spice Girls Girl Power to a multiplatinum hit. One fascinating section has Steven talking about the amount of cash it takes to maintain his lifestyle.
There was one overriding concern I had while reading this book - that the central protagonists' personality would end up overpowering the story itself. Magically it doesn't happen - and 'Kill Your Friends' ends up being one hugely entertaining read of lasting impact.
Also by Niven:
Music from Big Pink: A Novella (33 1/3)
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Sex, Drugs, Music & Violence. What more could you want from a book?
By Mike Jandreau
I absolutely loved this book. A friend of mine - who coincidentally worked in A&R for a very long time - gave me a copy and said it was "right up your alley", so I gave it a whirl.
I started reading Friday night and finished about two days later. When people say things like "I couldn't put it down" about a book, this is the one that they're talking about.
It's fast paced and the words just seem to roll out of the narrator at a pace equal to what my brain can process, which helped me churn through the book incredibly fast. I only had to stop a few times to look up some of the British slang that I wasn't familiar with (given that I'm American.)
Others complain that there's too much violence, sex and drugs. That's precisely what the record industry was in the '90s. Whether this book is some truth interspersed with fabricated aspects of the story or not, it's tough to tell. If this is *entirely* made up, John Niven is an even bigger genius than I originally thought.
As a writer, this book made me want to go back to the drawing board. I want to scrap my most recent manuscript and start over. I want to write with the passion, vision and creativity than Niven writes with and convey the same emotions, visions, and scenery that he does in this book.
It's such a fantastic read that I plan to read it again in the very near future.
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