Kill Your Friends
A Novel

Name: Kill Your Friends
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: John Niven
ISBN: 9781481507035

Author: John Niven

Narrator: Joe Jameson

Unabridged: 8 hr 58 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Publishing

Published: 01/06/2015

Categories: Fiction, Satire

Synopsis

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.

About John Niven

John Niven was born in Irvine, Ayrshire. He is the author of several novels, including Straight White Male and The Second Coming. He lives in Buckinghamshire, England.

About Joe Jameson

Joe Jameson trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. He has narrated over a hundred audiobooks, including titles by Gillian Slovo, Bear Grylls, Malorie Blackman, and Susan Hill, as well as The Danish Girl by David Ebershoff. He also works extensively in theater and television.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Anton

This 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......more

Goodreads review by christa

John Niven is what would happen if Nick Hornby got into a terrible car crash and punctured the lobe where politeness lives. I had a heck of a time getting into his novel "Kill Your Friends," since I'm not exactly fluent in vitriol. It is pages and pages of a man angrily screaming British slang for c......more

Goodreads review by Ria

Edit:American Psycho ripoffish. love it... i finally got the sequel Kill 'Em All and i decided to reread this. will i finish this? who knows. it depends on my mood. will probably give up because i also have to study for my exams. also it's not like i'm ever at home sooo... .... I got it mostly because......more

Goodreads review by Ian

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,......more

Quotes

“I loved Kill Your Friends. Who didn’t? Scorched earth humor at its finest.” Douglas Coupland, New York Times bestselling author of Microserfs

“Kill Your Friends is the most exciting British novel since Trainspotting.” Word magazine

“This is not for the easily offended, but readers with at least a slightly deranged bent will have a ball.” Publishers Weekly

“Hilariously dark and satirical.” Library Journal

“A very dark, viciously funny novel.” Booklist

“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)