A Novel About Life, Death, and Truth in Advertising
Raymond Kessel is dead. Or is he? Death, it seems, is not as advertised. Welcome to the Afte... read full description
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Oct 21, 2008
Lance
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With an interesting take on the afterlife and crazy, interrelated characters, Rutzy drags us through End Credits pages, if not always laughing, then at least smirking at the clever and witty story. Rutzy bludgeons his readers again and again with wacky similes that make you want to stop and share them with somebody, and throws in a pinch of Vonnegut influence for good measure. At first I wasn’t sure about what I thought might be the overuse of the similes in End Credits; In the wrong hands s
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Jan 23, 2009
Jason
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(Reprinted from the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography [cclapcenter.com:]. I am the original author of this essay, as well as the owner of CCLaP; it is not being reprinted here illegally.)
So why have I so far in 2009 been getting so few book reviews written? Well, partly it's just an ongoing difficulty I've been having since the holidays to get back into my regular routine, a particularly challenging problem when you're self-employed and work from home like I do; but then More...
So why have I so far in 2009 been getting so few book reviews written? Well, partly it's just an ongoing difficulty I've been having since the holidays to get back into my regular routine, a particularly challenging problem when you're self-employed and work from home like I do; but then More...
Oct 13, 2008
Ginnetta
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Written with sharp, witty observations of immortality and consumerism that leaves the reader with a complete mental picture of each occurrence to every thought the first person narrator uses to tell the details of this story.
End Credits reads in such a way that challenges a reader to rethink and question morally and intellectually the world in which we live through a sense of entitlement to what we might not deserve.
End Credits reads in such a way that challenges a reader to rethink and question morally and intellectually the world in which we live through a sense of entitlement to what we might not deserve.
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Dec 22, 2008
Jennifer
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End Credits is an amusing, darkly playful book about morality, life, death and everything in between. Raymond Kessel is a curious everyman who throughout the course of this novel endures his own existence as well as another man's, jumping the train to end up stuck and just as unhappy in this other guy's body as he was in his own mediocre life. The concepts of parallel reincarnation in this book are funny and compelling, and with the endless and cheeky similes, I was often laughing out loud at Rü
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May 19, 2008
Marc
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I enjoyed this book very much. Part Pynchon, part DeLillo, part Vonnegut and Kafka. Loads of fun, and highly inventive.
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Sep 16, 2008
Steev
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This is a funny, irreverent novel about death, mainly, and also about life and society and class and the screwed up world we live in. The book is written in a sort of over-the-top, "gonzo" style along the lines of Mark Leyner, Douglas Adams, or even a bit of Hunter S.
The jokes keep coming even when people are being fired, driven insane, humiliated, or killed. I do have to say that the plot and premise (that God and Satan run their domains according to free market capita More...
The jokes keep coming even when people are being fired, driven insane, humiliated, or killed. I do have to say that the plot and premise (that God and Satan run their domains according to free market capita More...
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Aug 03, 2009
Catrina
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I tried really, really, really hard to enjoy this book. I love the idea behind it but I just couldn't get into it.
There were parts that grabbed me but they were few and far between. A fellow book club member kept telling me, it get's better, it starts to make more sense. It all comes together in the end. So I kept going. Did it all come together in the end? Sorta. Did it all make sense at the end? Yeah, but I still couldn't get past what it took to get there.
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There were parts that grabbed me but they were few and far between. A fellow book club member kept telling me, it get's better, it starts to make more sense. It all comes together in the end. So I kept going. Did it all come together in the end? Sorta. Did it all make sense at the end? Yeah, but I still couldn't get past what it took to get there.
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Sep 09, 2009
Lavinia
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Mr. Rützy takes the reader on a cynically humorous and untamed adventure through situations involving life, death, and a whole bunch of eclectic in between. What drew me in was the darkness of his narration. I have always been a fan of seriocomedy, and Mr. Rützy manages to highlight some of society’s darkest horrors in an observationally hilarious manner. A great line: “Record labels know that self-destructive behaviors and controversy are like fertilizer for sales figures: the more you apply, t
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Jan 03, 2009
I'm awfully behind... but will get to EC eventually! Looking forward to reading your work AF.
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