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Title:Apathy and Other Small Victories
Author:Paul Neilan
Book Format:Hardcover
Book Edition:First Edition
Pages:Pages: 240 pages
Published:May 2nd 2006 by St. Martin's Press
Categories:Fiction. Humor. Comedy
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The only thing Shane cares about is leaving. Usually on a Greyhound bus, right before his life falls apart again. Just like he planned. But this time it's complicated: there's a sadistic corporate climber who thinks she's his girlfriend, a rent-subsidized affair with his landlord's wife, and the bizarrely appealing deaf assistant to Shane's cosmically unstable dentist.

When one of the women is murdered, and Shane is the only suspect who doesn't care enough to act like he didn't do it, the question becomes just how he'll clear the good name he never had and doesn't particularly want: his own.


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Original Title: Apathy and Other Small Victories
ISBN: 0312351747 (ISBN13: 9780312351748)
Edition Language: English


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This was one of the first books Goodreads ever recommended to me, using whatever algorithm exists to pair your past rankings with future titles, which made it that much more disappointing to find I didn't really like it. Didn't dislike it either. Just didn't think it was anything particularly novel or captivating. Our narrator tells us, "I have always been vaguely and uselessly talented." The same could be said of this endeavor: it's vaguely OK, technically proficient and certainly not without

I was stealing salt shakers again. Ten, sometimes twelve a night, shoving them up my sleeves, smuggling them out of bars and diners and anywhere else I could find them. In the morning, wherever I woke up, I was always covered in salt. I was cured meat. I had become beef jerky. Even as a small child, I knew it would one day come to this.Oficialmente no estoy teniendo una buena racha...

Memo to Paul: When writing a book, it is fundamentally essential for the author to make his/her protagonist at least superficially likeable--or interesting. No need to thank me. Reading APATHY AND OTHER SMALL VICTORIES is akin to swallowing air. Nada. Granted, Neilan's bizarre musings make for some eyebrow-raising passages, and much of the story is funny, but at the end of the day I walked away from this book feeling completely underwhelmed. A story about a chronic underachiever who cares about

I started reading this book when a 16 year-old student gave it to me. I didnt get past page 2 until summer, though I liked it a lot. Once summer hit, I read 50 pages in one sitting and laughed convulsively the whole way through. After another 50, I decided to set it aside for my trip to the beach next week because I wanted something really good to read. Its the hysterical 1st person narrative of a really messed up apathetic twenty something whose bizarre sense of humor and way of looking at

I saw this one on the shelf at a place I was staying for a week, and decided to give it a try. It was time that would probably have been better spent reading The Gun Seller, or Flashman, or any of the other books I'd brought with me.I wasn't really expecting anything (I really mean that; I wasn't expecting it to be good or bad. I was devoid of expectations). It started off okay, with the 'protagonist' Shane lying in bed with a bunch of salt shakers (Shane's habit of stealing salt shakers, which

When I first saw Apathy and Other Small Victories I was drawn in by the cover, sparked by further interest I decided to go ahead and read the first couple of pages. Immediately, I was confused. The book starts off rather abruptly and most of the book continues along the same path. Which would usually make me set the book back down and carry on with my life, but I couldn't help but wonder what it was the author was trying to tell me. What was going on? Why was some man, Shane, being awoken to

This book seals the deal - I'm officially a sucker for a nihilistic, possibly sociopathic, gross, unlikable anti-heroes. Like other reviews say, this book is funny. But it's more than that; it's funny in a satirical, observant, fatalistic, life-is-shit sort of way. If you like this kind of funny this book will be shelved right in the center of your wheelhouse. I'm now joining the many calling for the re-appearance of Paul Neilan. Come back to us! The world needs you.