The THOUGHT GANG
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Manufacturer: Scribner
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
EAN: 9780684830797
ISBN: 0684830795
Label: Scribner
Manufacturer: Scribner
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: 1997-05-15
Publisher: Scribner
Studio: Scribner
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Editorial Reviews:
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Inspired by the great works of human philosophy, a washed-up, middle-aged British philosopher teams up with an incompetent, one-armed bank robber to plan the ultimate bank heist. Reprint. 15,000 first printing. NYT. "
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Summary: Crazy men doing crazy things
Comment: Dang-Al-Mighty! This book rocks from the moment it takes off. A professor gives up his staid and boring life for to bust a move. I like my philosophy with a side of bank robbery (at least in books) so this hip-hip-hip hooray book got my larcenous goat. It's a rollicking read that keeps on moving.
If you like your books hot and twisted, read Rabid: A Novel by Kenyon, Tree of Smoke: A Novel by Johnson, The Pugilist at Rest: Stories by Jones, and Fight Club: A Novel by Palahniuk.
The Bookeater!
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Summary: .Laugh,laugh and then laugh again !
Comment: If you are in any doubt please pick up this book and read it.You will not regret it. It has to be one of the funniest books I have ever read and it is an exhilerating read to boot.
The sheer panache of Fischer's prose is dazzling and there is more fierce intelligence at work here than in a thousand formulaic bestsellers. The plot outline that you can read in Amazon's introduction just cannot convey at all what a wonderful reading experience this is. It makes most books look lame by comparison.
The story is simple but in Ed Coffin and his sidekick Hubert, Fischer has created 2 great characters.They are the Thought Gang and they indulge in a zany series of improbable bank raids across the south of France.All this is the backdrop for Coffin's hilarious philosophising about life and the zeitgeist.
I can fully understand why some reviewers of this book claim to have re-read it many times.It really is that good an experience. If you have never read Fischer before you are in for a treat.Do yourself a favour and buy this book, or perhaps in the spirit of The Thought Gang "liberate" it !
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Summary: Eddie Coffin, Unfortunately, Is My Role Model
Comment: I've read this thing every bit of twenty-one times. It is a work of audacity, genius and supremely mordant humor. To say I over-indetify with (and more than somewhat resemble) the protagonist (excepting the baldness) is to do a great injustice to Dr. Coffin. This is the book that got me through graduate school sane, for a relative value of "sane." This is an unwholsome book to take as a guide to life at *any* age (paraphrasing Hemingway),
but damned if it hasn't mostly worked so far. I only got canned once. You've *got* to read this. Get someone else to do the work.
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Summary: Fischer at his best
Comment: My favorite work by Fischer. I can't say anything about this that hasn't been stated already- I just wanted to add my two cents. I love this novel. I've read it four times since I first picked it up in '99. It is whimsical, hilarious, poignant, original and (best of all) a completely dead on send up of academic philosophy/ers. Experience in point: as an (philo)undergrad, I lent my copy to all my favorite philo profs. Only one of them thanked me. And he didn't return it. Even if you don't dig on the love 'o wisdom bag- you will laugh out loud at this book. And his other novels as well (though I will say, if you are a female- you may like Under The Frog or The Collector Collector, better- I've noticed a trend that way, with my female friends who ask for good reads).
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Summary: Where are the good ol' days when we could burn books?
Comment: Quite frankly, this book is wasted on a culture that celebrates Oprah, "Friends," and everything Bruckheimer. It's too good of a book to be put in the same strip malls that cough up today's entertainment and it knows it.The dialogue is fierce, the characters are sharp, and the narration is spot on. Oh, and it's funny as hell. That explains, of course, why you've never heard of it. Were there any justice, this book would be required reading. It could serve as the litmus test for some sort of bare-minimum competency test where if you dare said "I don't get it" more than twice, or didn't laugh at least once per page, they would strip you of voting rights, citizenship, and dignity. But, no. Instead those are the people who head corporations, reguarly attend focus groups, and wind up featured in the latest edition of People. Oh well. It's a good book.
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