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Title	:	tireless:
Author	:	Graham Spaid
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 158 pages
Published	:	2013
Categories	:	Fiction

tireless:

Graham Spaid

Paperback | Pages: 158 pages

Rating: 3.98 | 62 Users | 17 Reviews

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“Spaid’s debut novel delivers a bizarre, entrancing collection of anecdotes about a man who’s inappropriately interested in his neighbors ... Spaid’s prose is strong and smart ... offbeat satire ... a magnetic stream-of-consciousness narrative.”
– Kirkus Reviews

tireless: is a Kirkus Reviews Recommendation, June 14, 2013

Harassed? Unloved? Just watching life go by? Take this hilarious ride through the narrator’s painful world and find others who are even worse off than you. Next door you’ll meet Jim and his outrageous stories, the unattainable Olga, their dysfunctional children – as well as the appalling Rat and his companion, Roquefort, who’ll work their way into your life as they do with everybody else. In this satire on human behaviour, they’re not fair, not fair at all.

The narrator, an unemployed teacher and aspiring writer, lives in London. When Jim and Olga move in next door, his imagination is fired by the unhappy wife’s nude sunbathing and the pompous husband’s breathtaking tall stories. He recalls his comic victories in the classroom, while fantasizing that Britain’s south-east has broken off from the mainland. He remembers his own schooldays and considers the impact of young Miss Bugler. These anecdotes, like Jim’s stories, highlight the casual cruelties and misunderstandings in human behaviour and the evasive nature of fulfilment. A turning point is Jim’s recollection of a night in India when he hallucinated, suffering the taunts of the giant Rat and his close friend, Roquefort, a miniature cat. Humiliated by publishers’ rejections, by the rudeness of Jim’s daughter, Daisy, and even by his barber, the narrator transfers his sense of failure to Rat, who enters the narrative in a series of disturbing, yet uproarious adventures which merge illusion with the real world. The narrator removes the barber’s head, takes revenge on Daisy when she develops an infatuation for him and finally publishes something, in contrast to a now unlucky Rat, who is arrested, almost has a nervous breakdown, is refused restaurant service and disappoints as an undergraduate at Oxford, where the noisy love-making of Bill and Penny emphasises his loneliness.

From the author...

tireless: celebrates the creative urge while satirizing the people who create. I wanted to write a book that would keep attention on any page you turned to, so the person who looked over your shoulder on the train to see what you were reading would only look away when their station had come.

‘A colon comes in handy here, before examples: two dots on top of one another, like the cowboys who copulate on Brokeback Mountain, on a slope so far away you need binoculars to see them properly.’ ... from the chapter RAT ARRESTED! in tireless:

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ISBN:	1490381414 (ISBN13: 9781490381411)
Edition Language:	English

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Ratings: 3.98 From 62 Users | 17 Reviews

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ATTENTION (April 2014 change): I have revised this review to show a well-deserved 5 rather than 4 star rating -- I am a more experienced reviewer now, and I see some ratings from earlier reviews were a bit too high or low based on the standard overall. I'm not marking down any I think I may have given a star too many because it seems unnecessary and kind of mean. But, I thought I ought to show full regard when merited with my rating if I am serious enough to actually have written a review in the

I won this book via first reads and I thought it was very well written. The author described everything very well. When Graham Spaid writes more books i will probably read them.



Thank you to the author, publisher, and Goodreads for this free 'first-read' to read and review.But... Yes, the writing style is good, yet taken as a whole did nothing for me in enjoying as it was too bizarre and not at all to my taste in its imitating a form of decent literary satire concerning a major mixture of switching First to Third Person and back and forth in a very strange storyline. Thank goodness it was a short read. Story jumped around and I actually enjoyed some of it while other

I believe tireless: is completely open to interpretationits dreamlike maneuvers bamboozles any attempts on the reader to grasp some cohesive reality. An important plot point is the introduction of Rat, who could be perceived, if you choose not to regard him as an independent character, as the less savoury alter-ego of Narrator. Rat makes his appearance during Jims recollection of a hallucinatory night in an Indian motel. There he invades tireless:, shrinking and swelling throughout the

Let's Go ProspectingReading this I felt like an old prospector panning for gold. There I was squatting over the author's stream of consciousness dipping in and out and watching for a shiny bit. Poke the gravel, swish around the slurry, and grab another shiny nugget. I mean that in a completely positive way, because that's a perfectly fine reading experience.This book is anecdotal, a little heavily into magical realism, and essentially plotless. It is often inappropriate, in a very conscious

I received this book as a Goodreads giveaway contest winner. I found the characters unlikable as the author probably intended. Thus, I struggled to care what was on the next page. The story is about a substitute teacher who spies on his neighbors wife while she sunbathes and listens to bizarre stories told by her husband. I withheld one star because of the above stated difficulty. It is hard for me to rate because this style of writing may appeal to others.