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I wish this guy would write another novel. Kill Your Darlings is an absolute gem -- funny, twisted, and clever as hell. It's told from the point of view of a washed-up, one-hit-wonder writer, who now teaches at a community college and has been working interminably on a trivia book about other writers. Each turn of the page provides a hilarious, outrageous surprise. Our hero is pretentious, pedantic, preening, vain, and resentful (especially of Martin Amis, who he views as a peer, but who "affected to not remember" our hero! at a conference). To say more about this book I'd have to give away some of the delightful plot turns. Trust me, this book is a twisted riot.


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Kill Your Darlings A Novel Terence Blacker 9780312302832 Books Reviews

Let me make it perfectly clear that I am NOT a homophobe, dammit. I support gay marriage. And, come to think of it, some of my best friends are lesbians. But nevertheless, I'm creeped out by male homosexuality. And as soon as the 2 main male characters launched into a necking session, that's when the nausea factor kicked in and I had to wince my way thru the rest of the fic.

And it's just a darn shame. Because TB is a great writer. I discovered TB by way of his newspaper columns in The Independent. And if I had my druthers, I'd go into publishing and put out a few fat anthologies of TB's columns. (And the same applies to Simon Carr and his columns.)
A novel I enjoyed for the bit about literary groupies, the female literary agent who swears a lot, and the fact that the main character can't bring himself to mention the novels of Martin Amis by name. Also for its readability. Minus marks for being a thriller with no tension, unconvincing plot developments, clichéd characters (moody teenage son, low-life gangster), poor dialogue, and a bland prose style I could've done without the constant use of the word `swagger' in relation to Mart's prose, and fellatio prissily described with the phrase `I took him in my mouth'. Why not just say you sucked his ****? Also, the copy I had was very poorly proofread. Seems like your publishers don't earn their money, Terence. Terence Blacker has a great name by the way. Gregory Keays is also a good name for a character (unlike his agent, Fay Duckworth, who has a crap name). Terence and Gregory are the names of the characters in Martin's novel about failure.
Most English majors think they have a novel or two in them; after reading this book I think I want to avoid the publishing world all together. Writers can be so mean and petty toward each other! That's the impression we get from this dark look at writing and the writing lifestyle, and I loved every page of it. Blacker puts in these lists of famous writers and their quirks (what they did to unblock themselves; quips about their art) that would make a good book on their own (I guess he is working on one that will be out soon). This book is unlike anything I have ever read Keays seems so honest and trustworthy as first person narrator, but he turns out to be pond scum. And what a surprise ending! It's one of those books where you finish it and start right back at the beginning to see if there was any inkling early on that it would end the way that it did. There isn't, I checked. I thoroughly enjoyed it!
Gregory Keays is a writer whose future is, as they say, behind him. One novel, a short period spent on the "young writers to watch" list, and the only thing he has produced since is a dozen unfinished novels and a series of not-yet-published volumes about other writers. He writes a column for a writer's magazine and teaches a writing class at a local institute, while his wife has become one of London's leading interior decorators, earning far more money than he ever will. His relationship with his teenage son is terrible. Gregory's envy of those who were once, potentially, his peers has been eating his guts out for years. Most of those working writers, in his opinion, are mere authors; only he is a real "writer." This is especially true of his opinion of Martin Amis -- whom he always refers to as "Martin." (One must wonder about the true relationship between Amis and Blacker, if any. . . .) Then Peter Gibson shows up in his class and Gregory recognizes true talent. He casts himself as Peter's guide to the literary world -- and discovers the young writer has just completed an amazingly mature, groundbreaking novel. A novel that should have been his. Will be his.

This book started out witty and ruefully funny; you shake your head while smiling at Gregory's corrosive ego and self-delusion. After awhile, though, he's not so funny. And by the denouement -- which I, for one, did not see coming -- he has become downright scary. This study of the decay of an admittedly intelligent man's self-image is a remarkable piece of work.
Slow read, boaring to me. I ony purchased the book because Daniel Radcliffe is staring in the movie that is due to come out.
Kill Your Darlings is a great find. If you are a writer, or an aspiring one, you will love the dark humor in this book, which follows an author bereft of new ideas who finds inspiration in a surprising and twisted way. I love the protagonist's sardonic humor, and the book's continuous self-referential, self-conscious remarks. As the British say, wicked fun.
I wish this guy would write another novel. Kill Your Darlings is an absolute gem -- funny, twisted, and clever as hell. It's told from the point of view of a washed-up, one-hit-wonder writer, who now teaches at a community college and has been working interminably on a trivia book about other writers. Each turn of the page provides a hilarious, outrageous surprise. Our hero is pretentious, pedantic, preening, vain, and resentful (especially of Martin Amis, who he views as a peer, but who "affected to not remember" our hero! at a conference). To say more about this book I'd have to give away some of the delightful plot turns. Trust me, this book is a twisted riot.