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    Kill Your Friends: A Novel
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    Kill Your Friends: A Novel

    By John Niven

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    AS the twentieth century breathes its very last, with Britpop at its zenith, twenty-seven-year-old A&R man Steven Stelfox is slashing and burning his way through London’s music industry. Blithely crisscrossing the globe in search of the next megahit—fueled by greed and inhuman quantities of cocaine—Stelfox freely indulges in an unending orgy of self-gratification. But the industry is changing fast and the hits are drying up, and the only way he’s going to salvage his sagging career is by taking the idea of “cutthroat” to murderous new levels.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateOct 6, 2009
    ISBN9780061977718
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    Kill Your Friends: A Novel
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    John Niven

    John Niven was born in Scotland around the time that Music from Big Pink was recorded. After playing guitar in 1980s indie hopefuls the Wishing Stones, he read English Literature at Glasgow University and went on to work as an A&R man in the UK music industry before leaving to write full time. He is the author of eight novels, including Kill Your Friends, The Second Coming and Straight White Male.

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    • 5/5
      I got up early one Saturday and started reading this book on the recommendation of a friend. By 8pm I had finished it. I cannot remember when I last read a book in a day without eating - ok I'm exaggerating for effect. This is a wonderfully dark nasty engrossing book. I know you are supposed to hate the main character - Steven Stelfox, but it felt like a perverse privilege to be in his head. I probably need help for thinking that. I almost contemplated re-reading straight away. Need I say more. The day before I finished Madame Bovary - my head is a mess, but I feel I have grown in a contorted mutated way!
    • 4/5
      Evil and hilarious, "Kill your friends", charts a year in the life of Steven Stelfox, a A&R guy. In case you were wondering what A&R execs did in the years of Britpop; they go on benders at record industry meetings, snuffle sacks of chang and give it to boilers up the gary. If you like to read books where you want to identify with the characters and learn something - don't bother with this. Recommended as a good, quick holiday read.