false 97084 2 The only thing Shane cares about is leaving: Usually on a Greyhound bus, and right before his life falls apart again. Just like he planned. But this time its complicated: there's a sadistic corporate climber who thinks shes 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. 93582 2006 Apathy and Other Small Victories total:937|5:275|4:336|3:239|2:66|1:21| 937 3589 1304 253 5 2 false false Sun Jul 06 17:31:40 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 01 11:36:00 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 true false Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Dec 08 19:29:03 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 08 19:54:04 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 1 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Jun 27 10:42:45 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 05 11:20:01 -0700 2007 more...]]> 0 0 false false Fri Jul 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 26 06:10:08 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 26 06:25:20 -0700 2009 Something that is both fascinating and the source of some of the more disturbingly absurdist moments is the way the ...more...]]> 2 1 false false Sun Mar 09 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Mar 14 18:02:12 -0700 2008 Fri Mar 14 18:08:22 -0700 2008
I kept hoping the main character would get hit by a truck o...more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Aug 06 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue May 26 13:46:25 -0700 2009 Tue May 26 13:47:40 -0700 2009
When writing a book, it is fundamentally essential for the author to make his/her protagonist at least superficially likeable--or interesting. No need to thank me.

Reading APATHY AND OTHER SMALL VICTORIES is akin to swallowing air. Nada. Granted, Neilan's bizarr...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Sep 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 14 20:31:48 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 26 10:37:42 -0700 2009 Shane is the main character in the book filled with a bunch on unstable people. There's his c...more...]]> 5 1 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Apr 04 10:08:33 -0700 2008 Fri Apr 04 10:14:49 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Jul 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 02 19:50:42 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 22 11:31:09 -0700 2009
This cynical satire could best be described as a bag full of entertaining hate. Paul Neilan is clearly a man who has had some interesting experiences in his young corporate life. The story is loosely based on Shane, a temp with a...more...]]> 4 1 false false Fri Oct 24 20:09:51 -0700 2008 Fri Oct 24 20:11:35 -0700 2008 3 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Dec 29 07:46:52 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 22 22:46:41 -0800 2009
First, the down-sides. Our protagonist is an incredibly unor...more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Jan 26 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 08 09:30:32 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 26 07:55:07 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Jul 01 11:08:30 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 01 21:32:38 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Jan 03 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 03 08:53:04 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 03 09:05:48 -0800 2009
So incredibly funny. My roomate recommended this over a month ago and I finally got around to reading it.

Three things make this book worth reading:

-Again, the laughs. Hours of entertainment.

-This protagonist is sort of on par with Ignatius Reill...more...]]> 2 0 false false Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Dec 13 18:08:08 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 14 08:16:35 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Oct 08 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 29 17:03:45 -0700 2008 Tue Nov 25 14:00:27 -0800 2008
Paul Neilan writes in an incredibly observant way,...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Wed Dec 19 13:34:50 -0800 2007 Wed Dec 19 13:46:07 -0800 2007
The capsule on the cover saying if Buko...more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Aug 12 12:00:07 -0700 2007 Sun Aug 12 12:07:47 -0700 2007
Every so often, a book comes along that deep down in your heart of hearts you KNOW would make a fantastic movie. But then you think about all the elements of a novel that are lost in the silver screen -- narrati...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Dec 12 17:10:21 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 12 17:14:55 -0800 2008
"If Tolstoy were alive today and working as a temp at Panopticon Insurance, he'd say that all insurance companies are the same, then throw himself thr...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri May 22 13:04:45 -0700 2009 Fri May 22 13:10:20 -0700 2009 more...]]>