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Missione In Alaska (2011)

by Mykle Hansen(Favorite Author)

3.54 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

8882372316 (ISBN13: 9788882372316)

languge

English

genre

Horror

publisher

Meridiano Zero

review 1: Help! A bear is eating me is by far one of the most strange books I have ever read. Marv Pushkin, an incredible unbelievable uptight jerk, the asshole of all assholes, the stuck-up manager who disrespects everyone around him oh, and did I mention he's a real big jerk, gets stuck under the wheels of his well beloved Range Rover and is being eaten by a bear. Given the nasty character of Marv, I would actually thank the bear for that - but that's on a personal note. Marv is on a team building trip with his colleagues, including his wife Edna, who he intends to kill and one of his coworkers Marcie, who he intends to shag more than is humanly possible. But this whole bear thing kind of blows his plans and now he is stuck under his Range Rover, being angry at everyone but himsel... moref because of course, this whole situation is anyone's but his fault. The concept is brilliant. The book is too. Though I loathe the language Marv uses and felt more than once utterly disgusted by one of his statements, the story is awesome. It shows the psychological change in Marv going from feeling sorry for himself over being angry at everyone to wanting to fight and in the end…. well, I won't give it away. The book also confronts the reader with the difficult question: if someone's a real jerk, does he deserve to be eaten by a bear? Food for thought. Loved it.
review 2: Well, the book has a man getting eaten by a bear screaming for help in the cover, so you kiiiiiiind of know what you're getting into and what you should expect when you open it. However, it doesn't take long until you are pleasantly surprised by how funny (except for a couple in-the-middle chapters that seemed to drag on for a bit too much) and well written this tiny thing is.The main character is, for most of the book, a caricaturization of the current emotionally numb American corporate middle-manager cliché. Once you let the fact that this book is about a guy telling a story while a bear is eating his legs sink in, you can really appreciate the comedy behind this man and his asinine remarks regarding his "subordinates" (his employees and his wife), his own greatness (I mean come on, he is an Esquire-suscriber) and the superiority in every single aspect over everything else offered by the civilized 'Murrica.I say for most of the book because there are a couple pages (literally, like 4) where we get a more "serious" background of our main character, the disfunctionality (accidents, parents splitting up, suicides) of his family and how growing up with that shit shaped him up to be the independent, numbed douche he sees himself as. All of which, again, could be extrapolated to a lot of middle-class "disfunctional" homes to explain why a lot of your average Americans are, to a certain degree, basically asses.There are also some minor and easily overlooked references to fun stuff you mostly find out about online, like furries, which I thought was a nice extra and a reminder that there's someone in touch with Internet culture behind these pages.This one is a really really quick read. It's not any longer than it needs to be, it mildly reinforces some views in what you probably already call your set of arguments against corporate world and, overall, is just light, imbecile and fun. I'd strongly recommend it to people who like a little (or a lot) of political incorrectness with their humor. less

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