Help! A Bear Is Eating Me! Review
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.
Help! A Bear Is Eating Me! Overview
"Mykle Hansen's book is the Scarlet Letter, the Age of Innocence, the Wuthering Heights of books narrated by a guy being eaten by a bear -- The Last of the Motherfuckin' Mohican's of ursine mastication. Just sayin'."
-Christopher Moore, author of Lamb, A Dirty Job, and Fool
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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Customer Reviews
"meh" says it best - Kesley -
I subjected the other half of my two person book club to this title. I really really wanted to like this book, especially after reading all of the raving reviews. It was just way too long. It would have been good as a short story, but at this length was just redundant.
Laugh out loud look at Modern American Jackass - Kevin B. -
HELP! A Bear is Eating Me! is a fun, light read that covers the screwball logical hopscotch of the "American CEO-Everyman". While crude, vulgar, and certainly not for everyone, this modern satire sits halfway between a Grindhouse and Evelyn Waugh. I bought it on a whim because it looked interesting enough, and it did the job. I even lent it to my friends (the ones I thought could handle it).
Hilarious, intriguing, unique.... - Kevin D. Corcoran Jr. -
This book is fantastic! It's a light read - bathroom, prior to sleep, between meetings. Everything about this book is great! It's hilarious, intriguing, and absolutely unique (somewhat hard to find that now-a-days)
Anyway, there's no other way to describe it, just order it - give it a try, and you'll love it!
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