Don't Read This Book If You're Stupid
Tibor Fischer
  • Published: 2 February 2001
  • ISBN: 9780099283126
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $29.99

Don't Read This Book If You're Stupid

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‘Side-splittingly funny…Conrad with jokes… Do read this book’ – Sunday Times

A dazzling collection of short fiction, containing stories published in New Writing and the Times Literary Supplement, as well as several new stories. The Novella 'I Like being Killed' takes the lid off the comedy scene in London, investigates where jokes come from and how you can make people laugh with only one toothpick and a foreskin. Other stories visit Brixton prison and German bookshops, contemplate the tanning of Russian bottoms on the Côte d'Azur, offer advice on driving during Romanian revolutions, explain what to do with fifty uselessnesses, give tips on successful and painless serial killing and demonstrate conclusively that no-one should live in South London.
  • Published: 2 February 2001
  • ISBN: 9780099283126
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $29.99
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About the author

Tibor Fischer

Tibor Fischer was born in Stockport in 1959 of Hungarian parents. Brought up in South London he was educated at Cambridge and worked as a journalist. He was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for his first novel, Under the Frog, which also won the Betty Trask Award, and he was nominated as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists.

Also by Tibor Fischer

Voyage to the End of the Room
Under The Frog
The Collector Collector
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Praise for Don't Read This Book If You're Stupid

A stylish, slickly readable, frequently schoolboyish, now and then absurd comic bagatelle which also manages, somehow or other, to be worldly wise, subversive, and not a little creepy

Henry Hitchings, Independent

Sly and full of thirtysomething angst. Although stepping into Fischer's world may be a dark and cynical thrill, a thrill it is

Booklist

One of the funniest literary intellects

Steven Poole, The Guardian

Tibor Fischer is the Ali G of literature..... Perhaps the best tribute to Fischer is that he is one of the handful of authors of whom one asks in hopeful anticipation what he or she is going to do next.

George Walden, New Statesman
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