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I enjoyed the mystery of this story very much, although this book holds some of the longest passages I've ever read. Also, so much focus on swimming slowed things down. We get lost in the thoughts of Georgie and Bron so often that they seemed to blend together at times. Still, this seems to be a very smart group, maybe too devious and clever for their own good. I really wasn't sure who did what until the very end and I liked the twists and turns my brain took, trying to "follow the money". We’re reading two best girlfriends’ narration: Georgie: living at the states, preoccupied, workaholic, cool business woman who was partners in crime with Lissa and Bronwyn seemed like the third wheel of their close connection. But it’s normal when three women form a special bond, always third one finds herself left behind when the other two share more intimate bound. But he comes with an infallible love for himself, a cocaine habit that'd tank an elephant and an undying affection for crass porn, which all blossoms to insane heights as he hits the motherlode of self-pity, because...

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Edit:American Psycho ripoffish. love it... i finally got the sequel Kill 'Em All and i decided to reread this. will i finish this? who knows. it depends on my mood. will probably give up because i also have to study for my exams. also it's not like i'm ever at home sooo... In lesser hands the hateful protagonist of this novel would be unreadable. Not so in Niven's capable grasp.Elliott’s latest (after The Missing Years) is a great thriller with lots of red herrings and a blindsider of a twist ending.”― Library Journal Whilst it's quite feasibly perhaps an accurate or exaggerated picture of the music/A&R industry as experienced by Niven for a decade - a world that is hugely irreverent, iconoclastic and imbued through and through with toxic masculinity. It's a world painted here by Niven of nevererending drug and violent sex fuelled existence - filled with, consumed by resentment, hatred and loathing.

How to Kill Your Best Friend by Lexie Elliott | Goodreads How to Kill Your Best Friend by Lexie Elliott | Goodreads

Lissa was smart woman who knew very well how dangerous swimming at this place alone in the night and she’s too skillful swimmer not to get drowned but here we go! She’s dead , isn’t she? Best swimmer friends gather to celebrate the loss of their friend Lissa who is drowned at Kanu Lake where is filled with mythical creatures like serpentine and the very same haunted place always likes to take and take! Bronwyn seems like domestic, protective, loyal mother, efficient accountant who chose to resume peaceful family life on the contrary of Georgie who has connection issues and she hesitates to put a name to her relationship with Adam. An intricate, twisting story…a suspicious death is only one of the secrets among a group of old friends on an isolated island.”– Shelf AwarenessThere were a lot of conversations with this group of friends that were swimming legends in college. They are gathering for a memorial to honor one of their friends that supposedly drowned. Lissa was an excellent swimmer so some found it almost impossible to believe she had drowned, but rumors abound about a possible murder or suicide. I love a good twisty thriller and this one had all the ingredients... a group of close friends, a secluded island resort and a storm heading their way. Georgie and Bronwyn have been friends since college where they were part of the swim team with Lissa. Now they are attending Lissas memorial service at the resort she ran with her second husband. How could a competitive swimmer drown? The 2 friends can’t believe it has happened and start questioning everything, but somebody wants them to stop. Trapped in a wild storm they have to work together to stay alive. Georgie, Lissa and Bronwyn have been Best Friends since their days together on their college swim team. However I found myself getting confused at multiple points - both at the plot and the character's bizarre behaviour. Georgie, Lissa, and Bronwyn have been a close trio since their college days although Bron knows Georgie and Lissa had a bond that even she couldn't penetrate. All three were and still are excellent swimmers, having competed in college. They are very close to several of the guys swimmers/polo players from their college years and the group meet up several times a year. But Georgie missed the last meetup, the one where Lissa, the strongest swimmer of the group, drowned. It doesn't make sense that such a thing could happen. Several months after the drowning, the rest of the group is meeting up on the island of the beautiful resort that Lissa owned with her husband.

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La storia di un talent scout di una major discografica in crisi mano a mano che i successi si fanno sempre più rari: tra cinismo e feste selvagge, sesso e cocaina, arriva il momento in cui capisce che non basta più stordirsi per resistere in un ambiente pieno di colleghi incompetenti e spietati, ma deve “attivarsi” per eliminare ogni cosa (e persona) che lo ostacola.Steven Stelfox is an A&R dude negotiating the Brit pop scene in the 1990s. It's a cruel, cruel place where everyone is trying to find the next big thing. The young sexy girl singer, the song that resonates with clubbers, the reimagining of the Spice Girls, or those croony Emo "artists." When things don't go his way, Steven may do something like hammer away at a colleague's brain with a baseball bat, but only after his first murderous attempt fails: the one where he tries to overdose the guy, then plugs his orifices with all sorts of embarrassing things. I was given this book and The Second Coming in a publisher's double offer, neatly wrapped up together in a cellophane wrapper. I can only surmise that this is the literary equivalent of someone posting two turds in an envelope through your letter box. The premise sounded so interesting. A group of friends with deep dark secrets revisiting the island where their best mate died? Count me in! I loved how this book showed the darker side of friendship, and how you accept people despite all their flaws out of loyalty. Kill Your Friends' - John Niven's debut novel of 2008, a so-called satire on the music business, through the eyes of one Steven Stelfox A&R agent in the music industry, set in 1997.

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