Lightning Rods

Секс-комедия абсурда, от которой не так смеешься, как недоуменно пожимаешь плечами и... продолжаешь читать, не переставая недоумевать! Книга усыпана откровениями, будто списанных из популярных руководств по продажам и маркетингу, например: "When you’re in sales you’ve always got one thing to sell, and that’s yourself <...> you have to deal with people the way they are. Not how you’d like them to be." Вся книга наполнена иронией и сарказмом, объектом которых являются секусуальные нужды мужчин, а также потребительская и корпоративная кульутра Америки. Некоторые сюжетные ходы недораскрыты (учёба в Гарварде, FBI и др.), но оно и к лучшему - абсурда и так хватило с лихвой. Еще пара цитат себе на память:

a good salesman has a feel for the statistics that will carry weight in a particular context, and will tend to go with his feeling rather than with what scientists have come up with in some totally unrelated context.
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often it’s only after agreeing to buy something that a customer begins to realize how much he would like not to buy it.
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there’s more than one way to skin a cat.
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Thomas Jefferson said each generation should make its own laws and not be bound by the laws of its parents.
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If you’re using music to create an atmosphere the thing you have to avoid is buying the type of music that is labeled easy listening; what you have to do is seek out music that sounds like easy listening while being real music.
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An animal can’t decide to be a better animal. It doesn’t know the difference between right and wrong, so maybe there’s no such thing as being a better animal.