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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;Kill Your Friends&quot; is a special breed of novel. Reading it, I felt like I was looking through a particularly wide peephole into a sordid world of drugs, sex, and booze populated by soulless characters who somehow live among us. Needless to say, I was hooked. Steven Stelfox is an A&amp;R rep f...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33616907">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[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 &quot;Kill Your Friends,&quot; since I'm not exactly fluent in vitriol. It is pages and pages of a man angrily screaming British s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47218515">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Oct 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[John Niven has, in Steven Stelfox, one of those characters that's just a total joy to write and read.  A repository for every sexist, racist, homophobic, misanthropic, and outright evil opinion Niven ever heard or though during his tenure in A&amp;R, Stelfox is an unrepentant, irredeemable shit who (SPO...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75445290">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[If this was a song, Bret Easton Ellis would be getting a slice of the royalties - 'He does drugs and hookers! He's 27 years old! He kills people and gets away with it! Whilst shouting about popular music! Relief washes over him in an awesome wave!'<br/><br/>The satire isn't anywhere near as sharp ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52935819">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[im not sure if the author is a racist but with words used like darkie and spear chucker..if it walks like a duck and quacks like one...then you just might be a racist.<br/><br/>I couldnt get past page 17 due to seething unnecessary words used. i dont care if its used by people in another country. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57135213">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I didn't know whether to laugh or cry. This is without a doubt the most accurate depiction of the record industry that has been novelized. Having lived it myself during the same period this was about (late 90's) i had many a flashback. In order to really see something you have to step away and retur...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44270733">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I think he could have made his point with a little less of the uber-descriptive dirty sex detail, which seemed to take up more than its share of the book and made me uncomfortable at times. (As did the narrator's constant references to his libido &quot;nudging the 'rapist' end of the  meter.&quot;) ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41749500">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[To be blunt, I couldn't be bothered finishing this.  I got half-way through chapter 2 and then asked myself &quot;What am I doing here?&quot;<br/><br/>Getting no intelligible answer, I walked away.  I'm glad i got it from a library . . .]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Funny in places, but many times it was the same thing over and over. Book could have been shorter and the story sharper if he'd cut out the repeat business with the drugs and alcohol. He kept repeating the drugged out drunked out bits as though the reader had a hard time grasping what it was ... no....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47803521">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Similar to American Psycho...although not quite as brilliant. Populated with horrible vapid music industry types whose ambition knows NO bounds. Lots of drugs, dirty sex, murder, and champagne. I read most of it in Vegas, which was PERFECT. Read this when you are feeling mean and unflappable. Might ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71231423">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[when it's slow at work, i read british music magazines. this book was all over them as THE book to read in 2007.<br/>a skewering of the british music industry in the 1990's, it's a snarky rendition of bret easton ellis' american psycho. <br/>the main character is mean, racist, sexist, and a murderer...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44644437">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[For a downright nasty look at the music industry from the inside (just before the coming of Napster) then John Niven's Kill Your Friends is just what you need.<br/><br/>The book is a non stop orgy of sex, drugs and violence.  A brilliant, but disturbing, look into what a man will do to retain powe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41158893">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[funny with a capital F for fukin ell this book is dark<br/>brutal insight into A&amp;R world KILL YOUR FRIENDS is a mustread for anyone who loves it hard, fast and disturbing<br/>new term learnt: DUNG FUNNEL<br/>yes thats what it means<br/>BASICALLY 400 pages of cocaine, whores, and pop songs NIVEN ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68888367">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this one on the title alone, and John Niven rewarded my initial interest with an addicting tale of cocaine, orgies, murder, cocaine, the music industry, the mid-90s, and cocaine. If you liked American Psycho, this is a pretty similar book, but it's target is the London music biz rather than W...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55497048">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A Patrick Batemanesque A&amp;R man prowls the UK music industry in 1997. Some of this book is very funny, some it is just plain gasp out loud wrong and some is really quite disturbing. I enjoyed this book to a degree but it left a rather sour taste on finishing. Whether the music scene in the late 90s w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17925759">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is so awful, I couldn't even be bothered to finish it (which I usually don't do). Really, really horrible. The writer cannot pull off his Bret Easton Ellis impersonation and it is, quite frankly, a book even emptier and more astonishingly boring than Ellis' creations.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Kill Your Friends is a British novel about the music industry. It's author spent years in the middle of what seems to be a crazy job. This is one of the funniest books I've ever read. It's very mean spirited funny. I recommend it for anyone with a sense of humor.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Asides from the main character the rest are indistinguishable from one another. The unrepentant racism, sexism and shallow attitudes on display here just remind the reader of how skilled Bret Easton Ellis is and who Niven has pretty much ripped off here.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[pretty seedy fun stuff.  like high fidelity x American Psycho (set in UK, late 90s against music biz backdrop).  especially fun if you're in the music industry (or a serial killer, i suppose).]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Rarely does a book cause my jaw to drop. This one did. It is not for the faint of heart to say the least. I think I would have enjoyed it even more if I understood more of the British slang.]]></body>
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