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Trapped in a remote Alaskan forest, pinned under his own SUV, gnawed upon by nature's finest predators, Marv Pushkin -- Corporate Warrior, Positive Thinker, Esquire subscriber -- waits impatiently for an ambulance and explains in detail the many reasons why this unfolding tragedy is everyone's fault but his own.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Hilarious and Accurate Satire,
By David W Barbee (Georgia, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Help! a Bear Is Eating Me! (Paperback)
I can't even describe what a scumbag Marv Pushkin is. He is the product of everything wrong with modern civilized human beings. His life is defined by corporate wealth, mind-numbing pharmaceuticals, and chauvinistic douchebaggery. He is the epitome of consumerist arrogance. He's built himself a colossal ego decorated with material possessions, each more vulgar and expensive than the last. Marv Pushkin is an arrogant, self-absorbed, self-righteous, and downright horrible man.But does he deserve to get eaten by a bear? That's Mykle Hansen's take, and I have to admit that it's really really brilliant. Hansen does a perfect job showing us the absolute worst sort of human being that our consumerist culture can produce. The entire story is told by Marv, who's trapped under his SUV in the wilderness of Alaska when he and his corporate underlings are on a team building exercise. Marv hates nature, by the way, just like he hates everything else. Everything that happens to him is rationalized so that it becomes someone else's fault. Marv's mental gymnastics always prove him to be the exceptional hero, and the people around him the idiots who bring him down, victimizing him with their stupidity. Do you want to kill Marv Pushkin yet? There were moments when I sure did. But Mykle Hansen, just to prove how awesome a writer he is, makes Marv sympathetic. As the story goes on, Marv remains stuck under the SUV, getting dirtier and smellier, slowly being eaten by a bear. But Marv and the bear bond through their time together. Slowly but surely, Marv goes from hating the bear and everything around him to going on a weird psychedelic spirit quest that shatters his twisted thinking and allows him to actually empathize. He's knocked down from his high horse, and it's quite beautiful to watch him fall. And this awakening is all thanks to a hungry smelly bear. Read this book. Give it to your friends. It'll make you think of bears in a totally new way.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
good bizarro,
By Sam Reeve (BC, Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Help! a Bear Is Eating Me! (Paperback)
This was one of the very first bizarro books I read. It's very funny, clever and a different book than anything else you've ever read.It's at least super satisfying that the protag (who's a total dou**che), gets stuck under his own vehicle and gnawed on by a bear. Read the book! You'll get a kick out of it.
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4.0 out of 5 stars (57 customer reviews) 66 of 69 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Help! A Bear is Eating Me!,
By Jeff Burk - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Help! a Bear Is Eating Me! (Paperback)
Marv Pushkin is a jerk. He is a greedy, drug-addicted, nature-hating, member of middle-management who cheats on his wife. He is also pinned beneath his SUV, loaded up with pain-killers, while a bear is eating him alive. So begins Mykle Hansen's comedic bizarro novel, "Help! A Bear is Eating Me!"The ambitious premise of the book is that it takes place totally in the mind of Marv Pushkin while he is being eaten. There is very little action that takes place during the story but the character of Marv makes the book completely absorbing. Marv may be a jerk, but he is a charming, talented story-teller. This is a difficult literary trick to pull off, but Hansen succeeds with impressive ease. Hansen has a strong and engrossing writing voice. In the hands of a less talented author, a book with this premise would totally fall flat. Instead, Hansen tells an addictive story that the reader will not be able to put down. Hansen also gives the reader a lot to think about. Marv is a caricature of one of those corporate losers that everyone encounters. Using this kind of person as a main character, Hansen satirizes many aspects of modern living. Be it money, sex, or friendship, Marv is never satisfied with what he has and is completely consumed with a desire for more material wealth. "Help! A Bear is Eating Me!" is a unique and memorable work of absurd humor. Mykle Hansen has crafted a fascinating character study of a thoroughly unlikable person. While the reader may not sympathize with Marv, it is hard to pull away from his plight. 30 of 31 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
I Wasn't Always Being Eaten By a Bear.,
By almitchell "alex_says" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Help! a Bear Is Eating Me! (Paperback)
Ironically I just bought this book at Powell's while on a trip to Portland. The title caught my eye, and after a quick flip through the pages I decided to buy it, and I am glad I did.The story concerns one Marv Pushkin, slimy executive and all-around jerk, who has taken his team of underlings, the wife he hates, and the woman he's having an affair with on a Team Building trip to the wilds of Alaska. He is also trapped under his majestic and very expensive SUV. Oh, and he's being eaten by a bear. The story is basically a stream of consciousness from the mind of Marv as he is eaten by a bear, consumes massive quantities of drugs and painkillers washed down with beer, suffers from withdrawals from his material world of success, imagines and reimagines his life as it has happened, and very slowly starts to slide into plain insanity. He describes his circumstances in a wonderfully outraged self-absorbed tone, and you slowly begin to learn that what Marv has convinced himself of is not necessarily what really happened, but it's done in a convincing way. The entire section where he is obsessing over his feet is priceless. The book works as a very broad satire - Marv's voice is very original and very funny and resounds with the echoes of every scumbag executive you've ever seen or read about - but given how funny and creative the majority of the book was, I was disappointed in how it ended. It did fit the tone of the book, but it seemed a little rushed. I thoroughly enjoyed it and I have already lent the book out to a friend. It's on my recommended reading list. 136 of 178 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
I am my own biggest fan!,
By mykle - Published on Amazon.com
Yes! I love my books! I love them more than I love my own cat!Some authors are cruel to their books. They ignore them, or lock them in closets, or give free copies of them to awful people. I am not like that. Every single copy of every one of my books is my favorite book in the whole world! And with this new Kindle edition of HELP! A BEAR IS EATING ME!, my love can now transmit itself effortlessly across space and time, like a tiny silver thread that runs from the center of my brain out my window, into the sky, flying up to Seattle, snaking through the Amazon server farm, rippling out to a cell tower, shooting through the aether, plunging into your new Amazon Kindle's non-volatile memory, slithering up through its gorgeous e-ink screen and stabbing directly into your eyeballs. That's why, when you blink, my leg twitches! And I call that love. |
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