Firmin by Sam Savage
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Uploaded by orionbooks on Jul 31, 2008
ABOUT FIRMIN:
Firmin is the runt of a litter of rats born in the basement of Pembroke Books, a ramshackle old bookstore run by the equally shambolic owner Norman Shine. Forced to compete for food, Firmin ends up chewing on the books that surround him. Thanks to his unusual diet, he acquires the miraculous ability to read. He subsequently develops an insatiable hunger for literature and a very unratlike sense of the world and his place in it. He is a debonair soul trapped in a rat's body¿
But a literary rat is a lonely rat and, spurned by his own kind, he thinks he recognises a kindred soul in Norman. Firmin seeks solace in the Lovelies of the local burlesque cinema and in his own imagination. But the days of the bookshop and of the close community around it are numbered. The area has been marked out for urban regeneration and soon the faded glory of the bookshop, the low-life bars, loan agencies and pawn shops will face the bulldozers.
Brilliantly original and richly allegorical, Firmin is brimming with charm and wistful longing for a world that treasures its seedy theatres, one-of-a-kind characters, and cluttered bookshops.
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And homophobic too.
I won't read answers.
lslsls55 3 weeks ago
The book is sexist (the main character even "jokes" about raping his sister calling it "normal") and ableist.
To the author and anyone like him goes the following.
YOU'RE SWINE!!! I WISH YOU'D DIE!!!
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lslsls55 3 weeks ago
I have the same pencil as the guy in the video.
MeleeVIII 2 months ago
such a good book!...if you're a reader or writer of literature
bastardluv 2 years ago
got the book yesterday & can't wait to "chew" my brains into it :)
adfkjgvdjfvbdbvdkjvb 3 years ago
That sounds like Francine Brody again...
susannamaroti 3 years ago