A lovely classic of a book, after which the movie 'Wristcutters: A Love Story" has been made. Only after re-watching the movie for the second or third time I finally managed to read the book as well and I loved it. It all feels surreal in a realistic way (if that makes sense), and I mean that in the brilliant, dark humor way that the afterlife (or Purgatory) gets portrayed, as a smaller version of Earthly life where everything is roughly the same only slightly worse. As an Eastern European, this...

Bookends on twitter made a TBR challenge, as in a 31 days challenge to finish stuff on out TBR instead of reading newly published ones. *eyes my shelves in distaste* what was I thinking when I bought all of these???? I'm not allowing myself from going to that BBW sale unless I finished at least the Indonesian books from last September.Ok. Regarding this book. I've no idea when or why I wanted to read this. It's just there, I guess and I enjoyed nothing. That's probably too harsh. That bit about

A clever short story on the futility of human existence, given with excellent doses of humor and tenderness. The film Wristcutters: A Love Story, 2006 is based on this book. Another version has also been released as a graphic novel under the title "Pizzeria Kamikaze". The author creates a parallel universe, where those who have committed suicide go. The scars from their wounds remain on their post mortem bodies, but that does not prevent them from living, working, traveling and falling in love.

Originally posted here.Everybody hates him, except Uzi. I think there's this thing that after you off yourself, with the way it hurts and everything – and it hurts like hell – the last thing you give a shit about is somebody with nothing on his mind except singing about how unhappy he is. I mean if you gave a flyin' fuck about stuff like that you'd still be alive, with a depressing poster of Nick Cave over your bed, instead of winding up here.Etgar Keret's Kneller's Happy Campers manages to

This is such a short novella that it reads almost like a script to the movie Wristcutters: A Love Story. There's a lot very similar, which makes the movie a true adaptation. At the same time, the movie offers a bit of extra details that aren't included in the novel. Hollywood classically tacked on a happy ending to the movie while the book's ending is truer to the point of the book: the pointlessness of Mordy's hell and how the things you want only happen after they are no longer important.

I saw the movie first and was curious when I realized it was based on a book.I like the sort of disjointed, clipped way of storytelling the author has

August 2017: I also read the French translation. What else could I find? :) I am now also in possession of the original Hebrew, but cannot say I could understand it. :D**LEI wanted to read the graphic novel based on this book by Keret, but when I went to the library I realized I had ordered the German translation and I read it. I also enjoyed it!I was a little confused by the changing of the names and now I am looking forward to the sunny day when I am going to be able to read this book in Hebre...

Keret's whimsical, deadpan style really appeals to me, but this novella, while quirky and filled with his trademark irreverent black humour, didn't work as well for me as his short stories (and non-fiction, but is different in feel to his fiction) I kept feeling that it needed to be either shorter or a lot longer. Still, an interesting read.

An unintelligible but funny book:)

It’s very hard to put into words this incredibly odd story. It’s set in a world that’s just like ours, but is slightly worse and full of people who have commited suicide. People walk around with holes in their heads, gruesome scars along their neck and arms, and blue faces; all according to how they did it. It’s a very unique tale about Mordy, a man who killed himself after the breakup between him and his girlfriend Desiree. When he discovers that Desiree, too, has commited suicide and now resid...

http://zimlicious.blogspot.com/The blurb of the book really does explain what it is: "a strange, dark but funny tale." A love story, in essence, but there's a lot more than that in it. Mordy, after killing himself, find himself in the afterlife world, which really is a lot like ours. The difference is that people walk around baring the wounds of how they killed themselves, bullet holes in their bodies and such. At the bar he discovers, Mordy meets Uzi and they become friends. And then, when Mord...

This is the third of Keret's books that I've read, and every time I start one, I don't know know how the chaos of the first pages will ever resolve by the end of his characteristically short tales. But every time I turn the last page, they seem to make it, scraping in under some chain-link gate, closing on a strip mall comic book storefront as the caffeinated characters dance like extinguishing florescent bulbs inside. I enjoy every word he writes. After I read a sentence, it seems like it shoul...

Great angle, it amused me and made me want to keep reading. Great choice by one of our bookclubmembers, curious to see what the others will think of it!

(no spoilers) You'd think with less than a hundred pages it'd be difficult to get attached to these characters, but it's not. Heck, I feel like I have a better friendship with them than I do people I've known my whole life. I watched the film version (Wristcutters: A Love Story) before I read this and I loved it, the only reason I knew this book existed was because I saw it on the credits. And I'm going to do the unthinkable, I think I prefer the film but only in this sense... I prefer the endin...

I'm pretty surprised how true the movie was to the book. Nonetheless, it was still a great little read. The names were different and a few elements were changed, but the same dark humour that I love so much about Wristcutters: A Love Story was prevalent in this book, the movie's inspiration.I'll have to admit that the ending took me by surprise, though. It's not entirely unpleasant, but it's definitely bitter-sweet. This would have been a great novel, but it works lovely as a novella as well. Th...