Hi
This review
is about ‘The Suicide Shop’, a 169-page novel from the French writer Jean
Teulé.
I got it from bol.com a very long time ago.
I got it from bol.com a very long time ago.
“Has your life been a failure? Let's make your
death a success With the twenty-first century just a distant memory and the
world in environmental chaos, many people have lost the will to live. And
business is brisk at The Suicide Shop. Run by the Tuvache family for
generations, the shop offers an amazing variety of ways to end it all, with
something to fit every budget. The Tuvaches go mournfully about their business,
taking pride in the morbid service they provide. Until the youngest member of
the family threatens to destroy their contented misery by confronting them with
something they ve never encountered before: a love of life.”
This is a
very entertaining read. It made me smile; it’s very silly, absurd and
amusing. A light-hearted, easy and quick read.
The ‘goods’ they sell, or rather the ways to kill oneself in this novel are ridiculous and utterly laugh-out-loud fun.
Every member of the family is unique in an almost Addams Family way. They are all painted so visually and larger than life; I was able to see them right before me.
The ‘goods’ they sell, or rather the ways to kill oneself in this novel are ridiculous and utterly laugh-out-loud fun.
Every member of the family is unique in an almost Addams Family way. They are all painted so visually and larger than life; I was able to see them right before me.
It’s not an
exceptional novel, it’s not ‘Real Literature’ or a Classic but just great fun.
Instead of placing this in a dystopian future; this novel would have worked in the present too. Or even better, because the setting doesn’t add anything to the novel.
I liked it best a few chapters at a time because it can be a bit too much of the same thing.
Instead of placing this in a dystopian future; this novel would have worked in the present too. Or even better, because the setting doesn’t add anything to the novel.
I liked it best a few chapters at a time because it can be a bit too much of the same thing.
The morale?
Life is how you see it. Black or white. Good or bad.
Happy
reading!
Helena
Helena
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