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My Idea of Fun

Will Self

Paperback | Pages: 320 pages

Rating: 3.44 | 2540 Users | 97 Reviews

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Original Title:	My Idea of Fun
ISBN:	0802142133 (ISBN13: 9780802142139)
Edition Language:	English

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Will Self has established himself as one of the most brilliant, daring, and inventive writers of his generation. My Idea of Fun is Will Self’s highly acclaimed first novel. The story of a devilishly clever international financier/marketing wizard and his young apprentice, My Idea of Fun is both a frighteningly dark subterranean exploration of capitalism run rampant and a wickedly sharp, technically acute display of linguistic pyrotechnics that glows with pure white-hot brilliance. Ian Wharton is a very ordinary young man until he is taken under the wing of a gentleman known variously as Mr. Broadhurst, Samuel Northcliff, and finally and simply the Fat Controller. Loudmouthed, impeccably tailored, and a fount of bombastic erudition, the Fat Controller initiates Ian into the dark secrets of his arts -- of marketing, money, and the human psyche -- and takes Ian, and the reader, on a wild voyage around the edges of reality. As we careen into the twenty-first century, Self perfectly captures the zeitgeist of our times: money is the only common language; consumerism, violence, and psychosis (drug-induced and otherwise) prevail; and the human soul has become the ultimate product.

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Title	:	My Idea of Fun
Author	:	Will Self
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 320 pages
Published	:	September 28th 2005 by Grove Press (first published September 19th 1993)
Categories	:	Fiction. Novels. Literature. European Literature. British Literature

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My favorite Bildungsroman ever, 'My Idea of Fun' is a sort of 'Great Expectations' for the crack generation. 'My Idea of Fun' is ostensibly about Ian, and his life as a tool of the Fat Controller. However, everything in this book is deeply metaphorical. Like the more psychedelic works of late-period Burroughs and Alan Gullette, the book is best read sideways, allowing the scenes that are created to first manifest before attempting to decrypt their true meaning. This is mind-bending stuff, and

Difficult read but rewarding. Keep a dictionary handy.

Finally finished, but I'm not sure why. Because I wanted to like it, I suppose, having devoured as much of his journalism and non-fiction as I could get my hands on. But when you're on page 200 of a novel, and wishing you were on page 2 of a restaurant review, there's a problem. Never again. No more finishing books I'm not enjoying. No more trying to cultivate an appreciation for a writer who's not doing it for me, when there are thousands of good books I haven't yet started.While I'm at it, no

What does it say about me that I didn't find this book very shocking? For all but twenty pages, it's a satire on metaphysical bildungsromans (romanen?) and a pretty withering criticism of contemporary society. Okay, so far so good. Plenty of people got there first, it's true: revoltingly fat man as a figure of Satan? McCarthy in Blood Meridian beat him by 5 years. Links between repulsive violence and the less productive aspects of capitalist society? Ever heard of American Psycho, Will? Even the

Disgusting. All about shock value for the sake of shock value. If you like this book, there is a 95% chance that you suck as a human being. The other 5% accounts for prepubescent dorks who are just getting off on the novelty of seeing swear words in print, and who may not actually grow up to be sociopaths.

Soooo when Im reading a book, Ill sit with a flashcard and write down all the new words/words I didnt know had different forms/ words it would not occur to me to write, and then I upload the words to Anki so that I can test myself on them and hopefully memorise them. Ive been doing this for about a year and have racked up nearly 1100 words that I wouldnt otherwise use! From the near-uselessness of reglet or machicolation to the newly essential magniloquence, prolixity, experiential, or

I hated this book- the distinctive, lugubrious voice of its author haunted it throughout. Admittedly it is well written but after the 'First Book', it seemed to degenerate into the ramblings of a madman, from which it didn't recover. Just a very weird and unpleasant reading experience.Certainly not my idea of fun.