Just funny enough to finish | Apathy and Other Small Victories

Hilarious | Apathy and Other Small Victories | Paul Neilan

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	• Apathy and Other Small Victories Paul Neilan St. Martin's Griffin, 2007 - 240 pages average customer review:based on 54 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Fantastically ridiculous!

I loved this book for exactly what it is; a hilarious, ridiculous, sometimes-gross absurdity! The parts about Shane's office experiences are especially great because I think we have all been there--with the over-enthusiastic moron you work with who drives you insane. You know, the person whose emails are riddled with hundreds of unnecessary exclamation points and every other word is capitalized.

Don't buy this book and expect anything serious, it is pure comedy, and good comedy at that. If I had to compare it to something, I would call it a cross between John Kennedy Toole and Chuck Palahniuk.

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Just funny enough to finish

There are just enough funny situations in the novel for me to finish. The ending however was very anti-climatic and stupid.

Shane never makes any effort and as a result ends up in strange situations. But no matter how strange the situation is, he remains there because he doesn't care enough to leave.

He hardly works as a temp, never does his job but no one ever notices. He finds the job so uninspiring that he naps in his office bathroom to pass time. But typical of Shane, he doesn't do anything to change his job so he goes in everyday and naps in a stall. Shane also somehow ends up in a "relationship" with a woman who believes they have a "connection." Shane again, made no effort to be in the relationship, but he stays in it because he doesn't care enough to break it off.

Although most of the characters feel like caricatures because they aren't well developed, there are some pretty memorable ones. I especially like Gwen - who is completely clueless about Shane's lack of romantic interest in her. Gwen mistakes his apathy for deep thoughts. She also believes that they have a deep connection, so she sexually devours him everytime they are together. Shane of course, does nothing when they are in bed even though he is being flipped and throw in different directions and is usually writhing in pain.

We all have a little bit of Shane in us - the underachieving slacker side that just don't even care to try. I would recommend it if you want a good chuckle when passing time.

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Hilarious

Fantastic book. Funniest book I've read in quite some time. Read the first page, or whatever excerpt you can, and you will know right away if this book is for you.

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The message is there...

Among all the ranting that makes up the bulk of this mostly amusing work of pop fiction there lies one paragraph that I feel sums up what Neilan was trying to say. It's the last paragraph on page 147. Search for "But it didn't happen" in the "Search this book!" thingy, it's the last result.

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This book had me laughing, sometimes with tears streaming down my face, from the first page until the last. His dry, sardonic humor is great. If you think your life sucks or if you just need some comic relief, you MUST go this book ASAP!

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The only thing Shane cares about is leaving. Usually on a Greyhound bus, right before his life falls apart again. Just like he planned. But this time it?s complicated: there's a sadistic corporate climber who thinks she's his girlfriend, a rent-subsidized affair with his landlord's wife, and the bizarrely appealing deaf assistant to Shane?s cosmically unstable dentist. When one of the women is murdered, and Shane is the only suspect who doesn?t care enough to act like he didn?t do it, the question becomes just how he?ll clear the good name he never had and doesn't particularly want: his own.

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