Straight White Male Rezensionen und Bewertungen
Scharfzüngig und wunderbar komisch Kennedy Marr ist ein Autor der alten Schule. Irisch, zynisch bis zum Anschlag, ein Borderline-Alkoholiker und Sex-Süchtiger. Sein Mantra lautet: hart trinken, gut essen und jede Frau flachlegen, die bei drei. Straight White Male: Roman | Niven, John, Glietsch, Stephan | ISBN: | Kostenloser Versand für alle Bücher mit Versand und Verkauf duch. Originaltitel: Straight White Male. Originalverlag: Heineman. Taschenbuch, Broschur, Seiten, 11,8 x 18,7 cm. ISBN: Thalia: Infos zu Autor, Inhalt und Bewertungen ❤ Jetzt»Straight White Male«nach Hause oder Ihre Filiale vor Ort bestellen! Inhaltsangabe zu "Straight White Male". Scharfzüngig und wunderbar komisch. Kennedy Marr ist ein Autor der alten Schule. Irisch, zynisch bis zum Anschlag. Übersetzung im Kontext von „a straight white guy“ in Englisch-Deutsch von Reverso Context: True, but if you were a straight white guy who played football, you. Titel:Straight white male. Untertitel:Roman. Reihe: Heyne Hardcore. Autor: Niven, John. Jahr: Sprache: Deutsch. Umfang: S. Voraussichtlich verfügbar.
And the ending itself Jan 15, Elle ellexamines marked it as zzzzz-coverporn-etc. View 2 comments. Aug 09, Casey rated it it was amazing. John Niven is an expert at writing deplorable, hedonistic main characters except, well, Jesus.
Kennedy here is no exception, ignoring his family and obligations in order to snort, drink, and fuck his way through the entirety of Hollywood. He's smart, a bit sadistic, and certainly lacking in self-awareness.
When the tides turn against him--and they do--they do so slowly, events conspiring in such a delicious manner because you want Kennedy to be a better person and don't mind relishing in a bit John Niven is an expert at writing deplorable, hedonistic main characters except, well, Jesus.
When the tides turn against him--and they do--they do so slowly, events conspiring in such a delicious manner because you want Kennedy to be a better person and don't mind relishing in a bit of his pain.
The funny turns serious, and you may find yourself wiping at your eyes because it's just allergies, really, fucking allergies.
Sometimes authors writing about writers can be tedious; this is not the case here. Nov 17, Callum Jacobs rated it it was amazing.
This is a book whose beauty lies in creating a character who is totally, almost unbelievably terrible as a human really, an absolute platinum-lined shitball and yet somehow sympathetic.
Kennedy Marr is rude, self-absorbed, unreliable and from the opening chapter clearly on a fast track to self-destruction, but you know what?
I really liked him. And that's not because I am also a shitball, honestly, it's because Niven's writing is clever and funny and honest. Mostly though it is funny - laugh o This is a book whose beauty lies in creating a character who is totally, almost unbelievably terrible as a human really, an absolute platinum-lined shitball and yet somehow sympathetic.
Mostly though it is funny - laugh out loud on the bus funny. Fan's of the US TV show Californication will know the territory here well: successful, charming but deeply flawed writer makes it big in Hollywood and has trouble keep himself on the straight and narrow.
In fact he seems to have abandoned any attempt to stay on the highway at all and has gone off road in a massive diesel powered four by four, ploughing up the grass verge and driving over bunny rabbits as he goes.
There are drugs, sex, fights, preposterous behaviour in upscale environments I think this may have been the part the just made Marr so likeable despite his many, many faults and bad decision after bad decision.
Hollywood and the writing trade come in for some sharply observed abuse Niven clearly more than a little familiar with this world and the story builds pace nicely to it's denouement.
There are touches of genuine pathos as Marr begins to recognise that his trail of destruction has created some real casualties, most notably his teenage daughter, and the end, when it comes has a nice little twist.
I am delighted to have come across Niven and have already torn through Kill Your Friends. Now the central character in that one makes Kennedy Marr seem like a goddam monk!
Jan 10, Ray rated it really liked it Shelves: fiction. Kennedy Marr, erstwhile bestselling author, is a successful Hollywood screenwriter.
Lazy, offensive and narcissistic, he is an alcoholic and a compulsive womaniser - barmaids, starlets, TV producers and most memorably his wife's best friend at his own wedding.
He is not choosy. An unlikely set of events sends him back to a university in England - lured there by a massive tax free payment - to be a visiting professor of creative writing for a year.
To complicate matters his ex wife is a lecturer t Kennedy Marr, erstwhile bestselling author, is a successful Hollywood screenwriter.
To complicate matters his ex wife is a lecturer there too. Oh, and by the way his mother is dying. This book is acerbic, profane, disgusting, funny - we see Marr stagger from bar to bar and woman to woman, getting into fights and on to the front pages of the tabloids.
Not a role model for his 16 year old daughter. I liked the pace of the book, its references to music and films from my youth and its many laugh out loud moments - my favourite being a passage where a drunken Marr calculates that in the past thirty years he had spent over a thousand hours challenging himself, during which time he could have written a couple of books.
There are a few sad moments too, and some fleeting glimpses of past tragedy. Worth a read View all 4 comments.
What an incredible book. A beautifully written, clever, funny and deeply disturbing book that will grab hold and stay with you.
Niven is as funny as ever but this novel has a distinctly grown up feel about it compared to his others Cold Hands aside.
What starts out as entertaining quickly gets dark, and then very dark. Yet within even the rawest moments, there are still moments of pure comedic genius and you can't help but laugh despite everything that is happening.
Equally there are moments o What an incredible book. Equally there are moments of complete horror that just stay with you.
I don't want to give anything away because this is one of those books you just have to pick up and read… don't bother with the blurb, just throw yourself into it.
Aug 22, Robin rated it it was amazing. Gave this five stars simply because I enjoyed it so much. I laughed and chortled all the way through.
Irish screenwriter Kennedy Marr lives the high life in Hollywood — rich, extravagant, boozed, drugged and sex up to the eyeballs.
He's a rogue, but he's also clever, educated, funny and brilliant company. He leaps off the page and seems like a great guy to meet in a bar.
He is, however, having doubts about his life — his many betrayals of his wives and girlfriends, mother, brother and sister. He Gave this five stars simply because I enjoyed it so much.
He's been selfish and thoughtless and he knows it. Will he change, will he kill himself, or will the growth on his penis claim him?
A rich ride that fizzes along with outrageous humour and wonderful writing. This is not going to be for everyone and the first 50 pages or so are tough to get through until you realize where the author is going.
But stick with it and then wow. A great story and absolutely stunning writing. Bring on more Niven! I received an advanced copy of this book from the publisher Grove Press via Edelweiss in exchange for an honest review.
The expected publication date is October 7, This story provided quite the food for thought for me. I simply hated him.
The problem is he was meant to be and this is where I struggled. Alas what is one to do? Carry on with an open mind and read the story.
There were moments of humour throughout the story. One example that comes to mind is the fight on the plane. I also highly enjoyed the moments where Kennedy went head to head with Drummond and literally got in his head.
If he was more of a likeable character I would have been cheering him on as he "one upped" him. There were also moments of sadness when Kennedy is remembering his sister.
This gives a complex view in to the many layers of Kennedy beyond just the repulsive womanizing jerk he is.
Also the scenes with his mother are touching and show just how damaged he is. I believe this is a story about redemption however I have to admit I am not really sure it occurs.
In Kennedy, Niven created a character that was so far gone and self absorbed that I almost didn't want redemption. I wanted him to succumb to his self destructive ways.
This is not going to be a story for everyone. I for one found it to be too much however I can also see how some may enjoy the humour buried in the pages.
It is always difficult to decide how you feel about a book when the main character is purposefully written to be so obnoxious. While I can appreciate some aspects to the book it really wasn't for me.
That being said I urge others to form their own opinions on this work as it really is all about personal taste Oct 10, Charles Harris rated it really liked it Shelves: satire , literary-fiction.
How do you succeed in creating a difficult central character, indeed a quite obnoxious one, and yet persuade your readers to fall in love with him.
John Niven provides a textbook example in this scintillating, very funny and ultimately surprisingly moving satire, the story of a Falstaffian Irish screenwriter, mired in his own deep flaws.
Kennedy Marr is no pale genius blushing unseen. He fully admits that he's sold out, promising himself that he'll tell philistine producers where to go, but const How do you succeed in creating a difficult central character, indeed a quite obnoxious one, and yet persuade your readers to fall in love with him.
He fully admits that he's sold out, promising himself that he'll tell philistine producers where to go, but constantly taking the money instead. And even if he's hard-drinking, dysfunctional and a disaster with money and personal relationships, he's good at his job.
Now, however, having spent even more money than the large amounts he's earned, he is forced to take a commission which involves ruining the edit of one of the best movies he's ever seen, while teaching in a university alongside his scathingly estranged ex-wife.
So how on earth does Niven get us to care about, even love, this horrendous car-crash of a man? His techniques are instructive for all writers.
One, he gives Marr a full armoury of strengths. Marr is witty, acute, intelligent, a better observer of people than any of the others around him and his own worst critic.
And he's brave. He says and does the kind of things we dream of saying and doing, but don't dare. And we always admire that.
Two, Niven ensures Marr is in pain. He may be difficult and self-centred, but he truly suffers. Most of all, he realises that we all die.
Worse, we die whether we are good at our jobs or bad, whether we are perfect husbands and fathers, or complete failures. There is no escape. Three, the other characters pale by comparison - from his acerbic intellectual wife to his ghastly but strangely charismatic Hollywood producer, to the jealous rival professor whose single highbrow novel sounds like hell on paper.
Four, all the characters and settings are rounded and credible, even when being sent up. Just when you think Niven has pushed his luck too far, he veers away from the cliff edge and keeps it real.
What you gradually realise spoiler alert is that Niven has broken the cardinal rule of character - Marr has no journey. As a reader, you are waiting for the moment when things get so bad that he's forced to face his flaws.
The running joke of this big shaggy-dog yarn is that he never does. Every time Marr is about to fail, something good happens to him.
He's like the cartoon character who is always being killed and yet always lives. He's incorrigible.
And we start to love him for it. Of course, if you don't get the joke, then you may grow impatient with the story. Once you twig, however, you find you're just enjoying the roller-coaster ride.
Waiting to see just how close Marr can come to disaster and yet still come up smiling, preferably in a five-star restaurant with a glass in his hand.
It's a risky book for that reason, but great fun. I've wanted to read John Niven for some time now, since I heard he's one of the rare British writers working with satire.
Now I have, I'm going to be reading - and learning - more. I was unsure about this book for the first third or so, however it improves as it goes along as it effectively satirises the American film industry, publishing, English academia, and, the biggest cliche of all, the middle-aged novelist trying to come to terms with his own mo Many moons ago I read Kill Your Friends and I loved it.
I was unsure about this book for the first third or so, however it improves as it goes along as it effectively satirises the American film industry, publishing, English academia, and, the biggest cliche of all, the middle-aged novelist trying to come to terms with his own mortality.
By the end, I'd concluded it was touching, funny, quietly profound and eminently readable. And that, as you will probably agree, is a winning combination.
Feb 25, Roy Elmer rated it it was amazing Shelves: my-favourite-books , contemporary-literature , angry-young-man. Straight White Male starts out like a sort of angry young man lad-fiction novel.
The premise of the mid 40's, successful in work but not in life sexual predator, being forced by circumstances back in to the more mundane.
It starts that way, but really all Niven who I am increasingly becoming sure is a genuinely gifted writer does all of this to wrong foot his readership.
Kennedy Marr, the aforementioned philanderer, is a deeply tormented man. His family has fallen apart, he can't seem to care Straight White Male starts out like a sort of angry young man lad-fiction novel.
His family has fallen apart, he can't seem to care about anyone much and while he is making and spending obscene amounts of money, he is doing so by disavowing his own beliefs; not morality, for he has none, but more in terms of artistic credibility.
Straight White Male, to give it a bit of a Marxist slant, is a novelised exposition of the affect that wealth and capitalism have on the power and fidelity of art.
We see John Niven portray Marr as a genuinely intelligent man. Marr is a man of biting intellect, a literary soul with troubled and existential thoughts who quotes high literature from a range of eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth century authors.
He thinks in literary terms, turning every scenario in to verse, or prose, or the foundation of some work or other. What we also see is how, once popular, Marr's creative vision and integrity are corrupted by that very same success.
Rather than produce work of quality, he rehashes screenplays and lives off the generous checks and studio benefits. Marr appears to sacrifice his creative soul and lives the hedonistic lifestyle as a result.
All of this changes through the novel as we see Marr's reflections on his family, on his relatives, on the mistakes that he has made and the decisions that have affected those around him.
We see Marr become, if not reformed, more reflective. He returns to the artistic light and veers away from the production of carbon-copy Hollywood fayre.
As an exposition on the corrupting influence of money, of power and of success, this is an excellent novel, but there's something else bubbling just below the surface.
There's a whole lot of pain here. Niven is a tortured soul, I think. He lost his brother to suicide and he has used the pain of his parting to craft a novel here.
It felt at times as if the book was a sort of creative outlet for the author and a way to let off steam. It shows because the work is real, the pain is really there and I can't help but admire the man for producing something so finely crafted as a result of his struggle.
Perhaps the most impressive aspect of this book is the way that Niven addresses such pain with a biting, wry and often hilarious commentary.
I nearly cried with laughter on several occasions, often accompanied by a great deal of guilt at the subject matter, or Niven's language.
I honestly can't offer a criticism off his book. Perhaps it's not for those offended by foul language, but this is a new favourite of mine, and between Straight While Male, Kill Your Friends and The Second Coming, John Niven is a new, and firm, favourite author of mine.
Well done, sir. Aug 10, Ian Mapp rated it it was amazing Shelves: lad-lit , lit-fict , humour. No-one writes like John Niven. This could be filed under a straight forward lad lit.
It's over the top but as funny as anything that is out there. But there is so much more to the book than that. Our hero - Kennedy Marr - is in his mid forties.
He is a successful author. Well, at least he used to be. He last wrote a book several years ago, having now sold his soul to the Hollywood machine.
He is also cartoonish in his over-the topness. The book opens with what you expect from Niven. An hilarious set No-one writes like John Niven.
An hilarious set piece of the most excessive piece of self abuse committed to page. And that could be the tone for the rest of the book.
It would certainly serve as a very funny distraction. We then lead more about Marr. He is raging against middle age in everyway possible. Drink, drugs, sex.
The lot. He has a daughter and at least one ex-wife it may have been two - some of the detail gets lost and he is the most selfish man known to literature.
He has a financial crisis with the tax man and is forced to come back to England to work for a year in a university.
This is to gain the prize money for a coveted literature prize. This sets the book for him having to face his family mother is dying, sister is already dead, brother is the exact opposite and his ex wife and daughter.
Oh - and there is something medically wrong with the part of his anatomy that has suffered the next amount of abuse after his liver.
The book works superbly. The theme is a constant rage against death, which can only be cheated by living well. Marr lives far too well, but you get the point.
There are entire passages of the book that just fly by - including a breathless last 40 pages where Marr makes a decision as a result of view spoiler [he mas been misdiagnosed by a quack who tells him little Marr has to come off.
He tries to go out in a blaze of London glory hide spoiler ]. The book simply cannot be put down at this point.
This book is hilarious, has a message and although initially, I didn't like the end to much, on reflection it works. Best for a while.
Jul 30, Guinevere rated it it was amazing. I have to say that this is an incredibly human book. More than any book I've read in a long time, maybe ever.
And the humanity is most found in the little things, and those little moments are so precious and so real, so pertinent. Beyond that, I think it's really cool that the author was able to make the over-arching story speak to me.
I thought I would really Wow I thought I would really dislike this main character but instead he was so blunderingly real in the little ways that his bigger picture still somehow works.
I think it is serious art to make this happen. I received this book via a Goodreads giveaway and what a great find.
I haven't read anything else by this author but I will! Dec 18, Lucy Aughney rated it it was ok. Unfunny and lethally self indulgent, Straight White Male took about a hundred pages too long to get Kennedy to the UK and then failed to deliver any collegiate, fish out of water humour.
Pointless, legless and a bore, much like Kennedy Marr. Much of Straight White Men was born out of a workshop Lee conducted with a group of women, people of color, and LGBTQ people where she raised the questions "What do you think of straight white men?
When Lee brought the character back to the workshop, however, she was surprised to discover that the group hated him.
On further discussion, the group realized they cared more that Matt was a loser than a straight white man. The play was directed by the author, Young Jean Lee.
The play was produced by the Steppenwolf Theatre Company , Chicago, in February to March 26, in a revised and restaged version. The play made its Broadway premiere for a limited run on June 29, in previews at the Hayes Theatre , with the official opening July Directed by Anna D.
During the Christmas holidays, three brothers return to their family home in the Midwestern United States , to keep their widowed father Ed company.
The Broadway production received mixed-to-positive reviews from New York theater critics. The main source of criticism was that the piece was not as confrontational as Lee's other works, with The New Yorker critic Hilton Als writing "not only does it not exhibit any of the humor, recklessness, and passion of Lee's previous work; it refutes those things.
Green noted that the Off-Broadway production "was shaggier and, paradoxically, more coherent," but overall received the play positively and concluded that the play "is still an exceedingly odd — and thus welcome — presence on Broadway.
It remains undeniably powerful, especially when Mr. Schneider, excellent as the forlorn and heartbreaking Matt, tries to make his family understand something he can barely articulate to himself.
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