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  • Kill Your Friends

  • By: John Niven
  • Narrated by: Tom Riley
  • Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (524 ratings)

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Kill Your Friends

By: John Niven
Narrated by: Tom Riley
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Summary

Meet Steven Stelfox.

London, 1997: New Labour is sweeping into power, and Britpop is at its zenith. A&R man Stelfox is slashing and burning his way through the music industry, fuelled by greed and inhuman quantities of cocaine, searching for the next hit record amid a relentless orgy of self-gratification.

But as the hits dry up and the industry begins to change, Stelfox must take the notion of cutthroat business practices to murderous new levels in a desperate attempt to salvage his career.

©2015 John Niven (P)2015 Random House AudioBooks
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A cracking story but not for the easily offended !

Would you consider the audio edition of Kill Your Friends to be better than the print version?

I haven't read the print version but cannot see why there would be a difference

What other book might you compare Kill Your Friends to, and why?

Just a cracking good read, I can't really imagine what it would compare to but American Psycho with humour might be close

Which scene did you most enjoy?

I think the death of rebecca was great fun

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Short, witty sharp with great observations of the male psyche

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brilliantly funny and equally disturbing

excellent book. very funny and very dark. Didn't want it to end. Looking forward to the next book already

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Brutal and entertaining

Another great listen from john Niven. Brutal and also very funny. his style not unlike Irvine Walsh

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Brlliant performance by Tom Riley

Tom Riley acts the part of Steven Stelfox perfectly and his gift for impersonations and accents is incredible. Outstanding performance !

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Bloody brilliant

Loved this book, great story and the narrator is brilliant, he played the part perfectly

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Slow starter

I must say, up until about half way through the book I still really wasn't feeling it. I just couldn't seem to get into it and found it pretty boring but after that I started to enjoy it more. When it came to the end I was really loving it and immediately started listening to the new sequel.

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Dark and twisted humour

John Niven is totally ‘out there, off the scale’ with this story of a very dark mind he manages to have me shocked, cringing and laughing all at once!
I also highly recommend John Niven’s ‘second coming’, mad & brilliant

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Narration top notch

A despicable main character you feel guilty for cheering on. But you just can't help it. Narration really made it.

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Brilliantly Written, Pitch Black Humour

A brilliant listen, incredibly written, but most definitely not not not for the faint hearted!

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Offensive

Well that was pretty interesting. Unpleasantly gripping after a slowish start. Brilliantly narrated. I may need to read some more.

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