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The full book is worth your while. It's admittedly a long read, but one of the funniest books I've ever read, chock-full of absurd conversations and timeless s

• shadowprofile77 6y ago
  It is indeed funny at first, and for a long while thereafter. After though, it descends at first by degrees then quite abruptly into depressing grimness, revealing the scope of a tragedy that was the case all along, only veiled by that wonderfully absurd, sometimes black humor. I love this book like few other novels, partly because it has so much more impact than a simple comedy would..
  • circlefavshape 6y ago
    Indeed. The first time I read that I was actually crying laughing on the train ... and then as the book progresses you realise the depth of the sadness that was underneath all along.
• jacquesm 6y ago
  "We'll lose on every deal, but we'll make it up in volume!"