{"product_id":"how-to-rule-the-world-by-tibor-fischer","title":"How to Rule the World by Tibor Fischer","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e“Tibor Fischer is a master of the bitter laugh”, and there are plenty to be had in his sixth novel, said John Sutherland in The Times. His hero is Baxter Stone, a “suicidally disillusioned” film-maker who works in the Vizz, the crisis-struck television industry – and possibly a thinly disguised allusion to the media company Vice. Baxter used to be a director with “ideals”; now he “helms one-hour docs” on bizarre and sensationalist themes, accompanied by his “crew”, a thuggish vegan cameraman called Semtex.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eHow to Rule the World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a “wickedly funny novel about a serious topic” that “will make you feel smarter than you really are”.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eThis is Fischer’s first novel in a decade, and “bar the addition of several gallons of black bile”, little has changed, said Tim Martin in The Daily Telegraph. Much of the satire is “heart-sinkingly retro”, and the remarks on women are “even dustier”: one gives “tornado-style blow jobs”; another is “in her early 40s and done”. To read this novel is “to hear the authentic voice of FHM and Loaded calling from the Nineties depths”.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Week Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":54037969666324,"sku":"ttt1789765343320","price":17.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1011\/7627\/9316\/files\/how-to-rule-the-world-by-tibor-fischer_1.jpg?v=1789765348","url":"https:\/\/straphemfit.shop\/products\/how-to-rule-the-world-by-tibor-fischer","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}