Top 5 Favorite Books: Apathy and Other Small Victories by Paul Neilan – #3
My Top Five Favorite Books
Number Three
Apathy and Other Small Victories
by Paul Neilan
I love the title of this book. Look at the cover. Who wouldn’t immediately pick up this book and read the first couple of pages? The opening sentence is “I was stealing saltshakers again.” Needless to say I was captivated. Why was he stealing saltshakers? I needed to know. I’ve read this book a couple of times but not recently.
What is the book about?
The only thing Shane cares about is leaving. Usually on a Greyhound bus, right before his life falls apart again. Just like he planned. But this time it’s complicated: there’s a sadistic corporate climber who thinks she’s his girlfriend, a rent-subsidized affair with his landlord’s wife, and the bizarrely appealing deaf assistant to Shane’s cosmically unstable dentist. When one of the women is murdered, and Shane is the only suspect who doesn’t care enough to act like he didn’t do it, the question becomes just how he’ll clear the good name he never had and doesn’t particularly want: his own.
Why is it in my top five?
It’s funny. The plot is just so completely random and the main character, Shane, is so disinterested in the whole thing. He kind of just happens to get himself in to this mess. There is also a whole bunch of funny bits including an abusive girlfriend, a deaf receptionist, and a dead-end job at an insurance company. I saw Neilan at Powells when he was making his rounds promoting the paperback edition. He’s a funny guy. Now, why hasn’t he written anything else?
Top 5 Favorite Books:
5) sex.lies.murder.fame. by Lolita Files
4) Einstein’s Dreams by Alan Lightman
3) Apathy and Other Small Victories by Paul Neilan
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