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magyklyxdelish's review against another edition
4.0
So if a complete and total douchebag is trapped under a car and is getting eaten by a bear, do we feel sorry for him? This is what the book makes you ponder. Does him being such a massive dickwad mean he deserves what’s happening to him or do we want him to be rescued?
This book had me laughing out loud. It’s well written and had a good pace to it.
One of my complaints was that it got a bit verbose at times but considering the way this story is being told and who’s narrating it, it makes sense.
The main issue I have is with the ending. It didn’t really land for me. But as I’m pondering this story I’m thinking the reason for this is because I still can’t answer that question for myself. I don’t know if I would have rather him be eaten alive or rescued. Usually when I dislike an ending I have in mind an alternate ending(s) I would have preferred but I literally do not know what fate I would choose for this man. So I’m fairly certain my dislike of the ending is more on me than the writer.
All of that said, I enjoyed this story and had a good time reading it and honestly, what more can you ask for in a book?
This book had me laughing out loud. It’s well written and had a good pace to it.
One of my complaints was that it got a bit verbose at times but considering the way this story is being told and who’s narrating it, it makes sense.
The main issue I have is with the ending. It didn’t really land for me. But as I’m pondering this story I’m thinking the reason for this is because I still can’t answer that question for myself. I don’t know if I would have rather him be eaten alive or rescued. Usually when I dislike an ending I have in mind an alternate ending(s) I would have preferred but I literally do not know what fate I would choose for this man. So I’m fairly certain my dislike of the ending is more on me than the writer.
All of that said, I enjoyed this story and had a good time reading it and honestly, what more can you ask for in a book?
gioclair's review against another edition
5.0
A masterpiece of Bizarro literature. For the lovers of absurdism.
caitpoytress's review against another edition
4.0
Review to be posted tomorrow, after the pain meds have worn off.
dantastic's review against another edition
3.0
While corporate sleazeball Marv Pushkin is on a bear-killing/team-building trip in Alaska, he becomes trapped under his Range Rover and a bear begins eating him. Hilarity ensues.
HELP! A Bear is Eating Me! reads like Jim Thompson's The Killer Inside Me if it were written by Christopher Moore and Lou Ford was an ad agency executive rather than a small town sheriff. Making the reader care about a douchebag of Pushkin's caliber is a rough job but Mykle Hansen accomplishes just that. Pushkin's dialogue is pricless and it's clear that he's totally oblivous to the reality of his utter douchebaggery.
Not only is HELP! A Bear is Eating Me! a hilarious tale of an asshole getting what's coming to him, slowly and painfully, it's also a commentary on the inane corporate culture. I could easily see Marv Pushkin being in management where I work.
That's about all I have to say. If you think a corporate scumbag getting eaten by a bear for 120-ish pages is funny, this is the book for you.
HELP! A Bear is Eating Me! reads like Jim Thompson's The Killer Inside Me if it were written by Christopher Moore and Lou Ford was an ad agency executive rather than a small town sheriff. Making the reader care about a douchebag of Pushkin's caliber is a rough job but Mykle Hansen accomplishes just that. Pushkin's dialogue is pricless and it's clear that he's totally oblivous to the reality of his utter douchebaggery.
Not only is HELP! A Bear is Eating Me! a hilarious tale of an asshole getting what's coming to him, slowly and painfully, it's also a commentary on the inane corporate culture. I could easily see Marv Pushkin being in management where I work.
That's about all I have to say. If you think a corporate scumbag getting eaten by a bear for 120-ish pages is funny, this is the book for you.
starfullofbees's review against another edition
4.0
His pleas fell on deaf bears and that's why they ate him.
Patrick Bateman gets eaten by bears. Almost exactly this and it's beautiful.
Patrick Bateman gets eaten by bears. Almost exactly this and it's beautiful.
michael5000's review against another edition
Not bad, but doesn't really fit my mood of the moment.
sunshinemagik's review against another edition
5.0
I love this book! If Kurt Vonnegut and Douglas Adams had a baby that read a lot of Clive Barker that might vaguely describe Mykle Hansen's fantastic writing style. Highly entertaining, slightly ridiculous, a little gory, and always fun.
readerxxx's review against another edition
2.0
The book started out funny but it never really developed into anything other than a smarmy know-it-all. I couldnt finish it, just didnt feel it was worth the time.