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Title: The Collector Collector: A Novel by Tibor Fischer ISBN: 0-8050-5786-2 Publisher: Henry Holt & Company, Inc. Pub. Date: July, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.14 (22 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Satirical Imagination
Comment: "The Collector Collector" is a veritable, dark comic medley about life, love, success, failure, etc... Fischer, like Tom Robbins{Still Life With Woodpecker, et al}, (and a semi obscure writer named J. Joyce) before him, uses unbridled imagination and hybridization as central vehicles to express his protagonist's vaguely normal existence in a sea of eccentricity.
This book deserves considerable attention, if nothing else, for the author's choice of narrator, the wise and knowing urn. For all it's whimsical satire, this novel presents deep sobering thoughts into contemporary society.
Rating: 5
Summary: Another Fischer Fling
Comment: Forget about all the bowl jokes and the fact that the narrator is one. This book is not about crockery. It's about humans. Mr. Fischer has the amazing ability to pick up odd human traits and use them the exploit this mad mad mad world we find ourselves in. By using a narrator that's thousands of years old Fischer can really show us how silly our lives--and the things we fill them with--are.
The book was laugh out loud funny and a page turner (quite cliche, I know, but's it's monday morning). I brought it to parties with me and sat in the corner to read it while everyone else was dancing. Actually, I'm glad I finished it--now I can have my life back. Be warned, it's a dangerous book.
Rating: 3
Summary: It's Only Rock & Roll, But I Like It
Comment: This book is funny and smart. As others have noted, it isn't War & Peace, or Ulysses, either. More like a very adult, edgy comic book. However, this male-written female perspective on males and other females really rings true (or else the women I work with and to whom I am often invisible have been putting me on all these years). This turned out to be the most fascinating aspect of the book, and I think it is no small achievement.
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Title: Under the Frog : A Novel by Tibor Fischer ISBN: 0312278713 Publisher: Picador USA Pub. Date: 03 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Voyage to the End of the Room by Tibor Fischer ISBN: 158243297X Publisher: Counterpoint Press Pub. Date: January, 2004 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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Title: The Subject Steve : A Novel by Sam Lipsyte ISBN: 0767909178 Publisher: Broadway Pub. Date: 24 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Don't Read This Book If You're Stupid : Stories by Tibor Fischer ISBN: 0312278527 Publisher: Picador USA Pub. Date: 03 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: I Like Being Killed: Stories by Tibor Fischer ISBN: 0805066012 Publisher: Metropolitan Books Pub. Date: September, 2000 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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