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Original Title:	Great Apes
ISBN:	0802135765 (ISBN13: 9780802135766)
Characters:	Zack Busner
Literary Awards:	Tähtivaeltaja Award (2000)

Great Apes Paperback | Pages: 404 pages

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Title	:	Great Apes
Author	:	Will Self
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 404 pages
Published	:	August 11th 1998 by Grove Press (first published 1997)
Categories	:	Fiction. Fantasy

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Fans of Will Self's satirical fiction and stunning prose will not be disappointed in the latest from the author who brought readers through the bizarre war between the sexes in Cock & Bull and into the costly world of high-stakes business in My Idea of Fun. With Great Apes, Self takes readers into a sort of "Planet of the Apes" with a twist.

Simon Dykes is a London painter whose life suddenly becomes Kafkaesque. After an evening of routine debauchery, traipsing from toilet to toilet and partaking in a host of narcotics, the middle-aged painter wakes to discover that his girlfriend, Sarah, has turned into a chimpanzee. Simon is also a chimp, but he does not accept this fact—he is convinced that he is still human.

He is then confined to an emergency psychiatric ward and placed under the care of alpha-psychiatrist Dr. Zack Busner. Simon finds chimp behavior a bit unnatural; he can't bring himself to use gestures rather than speech to communicate. He also finds it difficult to mate publicly or accept social grooming. Dr. Zack Busner—also a medical doctor, radical psychoanalyst, maverick axiolytic drug researcher, and former television personality—is prepared to help Simon get used to "chimpunity". It is during Simon's gradual simianization that Self's true satirical genius shines, as he examines anthropology, the trendy art world, animal rights, and much more.

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Read the STOP SMILING interview with author Will Self. ABUSE OF SELFThe Stop Smiling Interview with Will SelfBy Sally Vincent(This interview originally appeared in the STOP SMILING Photography Issue)The first time I laid eyes on Will Self, he was monologuing about flying buttresses to a startled and ever-increasing audience of slack-jawed strangers, seemingly dumbstruck by his magniloquence. It was as though he couldnt help himself. As though all this passion about architecture had been

Simon Dykes is an artist on the rise, living large in 1990s London, with a flat and a girlfriend of his own, with previous work hung in the Tate Modern and an important gallery show coming up, with a new direction for his paintings that promises to provoke the best kind of outrage, the kind that cements reputations. Simon doesn't really have time to party all night at the Sealink Club, mixing that dodgy coke and Ecstasy... but he does so anyway. Simon and Sarah quit the club close to dawn, go to

one line joke in 404 pages. The reader may get a minor positive feeling when the figure out some of the made-up words 'chimpunity' = humanity. There are major or minor levels of shock and disgust depending on your personal threshold for grossness when the 'apes' do the things you may have seen monkeys do at the zoo as part of acceptable everyday culture. And then there is the redundancy of having these two tricks expended and repeated to pad out the story. I am not sure why I forced myself to

I read this book mainly because of that awful picture on the cover, which was also strangely intriguing, and because I'd heard good things about Will Self. I found myself frustrated not twenty pages in, however, by both the language (which was ridiculously over-written) and the gimmicky nature of the plot (a bunch of apes act like people, basically), both of which stood in for any meaningful plot. I'm giving this book one star, then, because it didn't make me feel anything at all. Yes, I

We asked three pupils in Class 2B at Roswell High what they would do if they woke up as an ape:Daniel sez:I wish I was an ape in the evenings. If I was an ape in the evenings I would hang around the school gates spooking the teachers. I would knuckle-walk up to that sandal-wearing nonce Mr Almott and slap him so hard around the gums hed need a new set of teeth to learn basic Esperanto. In the evenings I would sip tea on a tyre suspended from a tree and go Hoo-haa! while masturbating so hard my

I was a wee teenage lassie when I first tried to read this book, and I gave it up - an incredibly rare occurrence for me. I am now a wee adult lassie and I have had to give it up again. I simply cannot argue with the side of myself indicating that I'm losing my time by trying to read it. Pompous and fragmented, I would not recommend it. Interesting plot line and decent characters, but not much else for me.

This book, if book is what you must call it, stank up my life for ten days or two weeks while I dodged all of the chimpshit Self decided to fling at me, the innocent reader. Chimpshit. That's all it was. Four hundred pages of chimpshit.Oh. I'm sorry. Did I forget to mention that I thought this novel to be nothing but chimpshit? Pure and fruity chimpshit?