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The Nimrod Flipout
Etgar Keret and Institute for Translation of Hebrew Literature
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“I chose to read The Nimrod Flipout by Etgar Keret because I'd heard Fatso, which is one of the stories featured in his book on This American Life, and I always thought he was very interesting. Also, I'd heard about his other book, The Bus Driver Who Wanted to be God.
If you haven't heard Keret, either in This American Life or having read any of his books, his style is pretty much surreal short stories, and they are weird. In The Bus Drive Who Wanted to be God, he writes about what the afterlife is like for people who have committed suicide. In this book, he features all sorts of really strange things like the main story, what the book is named after, The Nimrod Flipout, is about his one friend who starts having psychiatric problems, and then he finds out that he'll take on the problems next, and then his next friends, and then they all have to share the burden of this psychic pain. He just writes things that you just wonder how he comes up with these things.
This book is a bunch of stories. I think Fatso's probably my favorite story in the book because it is so bizarre and funny and quite sweet how it all turns out. Some of the stories are totally bizarre, but I would say Fatso is my favorite in this book and worth reading. Fatso is — that specific story is about a guy whose girlfriend admits she has a terrible secret and that at night she turns into a big, fat, hairy man.
I wouldn't say there's much I don't like about the book. Once in a while it can be a little violent or icky, but I think it's just very interesting. So if you can go with surreal stories that don't necessarily make sense or you can just enjoy someone's creativity, you'd probably enjoy this book. My favorite thing to read is probably fiction, like longer stories instead of short stories, but sometimes short stories are great to pick up if you're traveling or you just want to read one story before you go to sleep at night. So I like to read a mix, but I would suggest you check this out 'cause it's sort of neat and different. I would give this book four stars.”
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