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by Tibor Fischer (Author) "THIS IS how I became rich: I was at home at four-thirty on a Friday afternoon ..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 288 pages
  • Publisher: Chatto & Windus (4 Sep 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0701173335
  • ISBN-13: 978-0701173333
  • Product Dimensions: 21.4 x 13.4 x 2.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 440,838 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'Side-splittingly funny...Conrad with jokes.', SUNDAY TIMES .'A delicate serio-comic treasure.', Salman Rushdie


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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Trivial, Aimless and Pointless, 2 Dec 2003
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Occasionally entertaining, but really too aimless and frivolous to amount to much more than a series of disconnected - and generally too ridiculous - anecdotes. As you read, you wonder where it is all going; and the answer is ultimately nowhere. This book has an air of having been tossed off (that term used advisedly) to meet a contractual commitment. Fischer should really grasp the concept that to be genuinely funny, humour must be close to the truth. Creating ridiculous stories is easy; making them believable and unifying them into a coherent story is hard, and that is why great writers get paid the big (okay, the small) bucks.
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2.0 out of 5 stars Superficial and aimless, 14 Dec 2003
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"Voyage to the end of the Room" was, as others have noted below, largely a collection of invented anecdotes that have no cohesion or unifying theme. More importantly, they are not amusing, interesting or plausible anecdotes. It takes more than this to make a novel.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars A Witty, Wandering, Loose Poke Around A Wacky Plotline That Just Sucks You In, 12 Jun 2006
By L. Black "lorcanblack" (Dublin, Republic of Ireland) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Voyage to the End of the Room (Paperback)
First things first: not much actually happens in Voyage to the End of the Room. In fact the title suggests just that. It is, succinctly, a great novel for writers who aren't afraid to read something a little different. Once again this novel showcases Fischer's deft hand at writing witty, catching prose which is so ultimately his domain. No one else could possibly have been successful in a novel like this, and none could possibly have made it work either.

However Fischer does seem to get rather bogged down in the flashback to Oceane's experiences working in a sex-club in Barcelona for whatever reasons. I was rather more eager to get onto her tracking Dudley's globtrotting search to uncover whether her ex is actually alive, and if not, why she's receiving letters, the original reason I bought the novel. But then, this is a Tibor Fischer novel, and the whole novel works, but only because of Fischer's ability with his use of language.

Voyage to the End of the Room, like it's protagonist, is odd, but entirely charming. If you hadn't fallen in love with Fischer before, this might just ease you into his style. It's light entertainment which proves to be a little thought-provoking, if only he had stayed a little bit more interested on finding Ocean's ex, rather than her past.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Voyage to the end of the room - but not much further
I found it hard to know exactly what I thought of this book. I liked the set up a lot, we learn about a woman who never leaves her flat and has clearly had an intriguing life. Read more
Published 9 months ago by starski

5.0 out of 5 stars baffled by slating reviews
I was surprised to find such a brutal consensus on what I consider one of my all-time favourites.

This was my first Tibor Fischer, and I've never looked back. Read more
Published 13 months ago by keziah

4.0 out of 5 stars A pretty lengthy 251-page book
I thought this was the type of book you pick up only because you needed another one to complete a "3 for 2" deal. Read more
Published on 11 Jun 2006 by h.j.

2.0 out of 5 stars compared to his usual standards, a duffer
Fischer is usually a staggeringly inventive writer (see Thought Gang, Under the Frog, Collector Collector) so it comes as a bit of a surprise when this one is so mediocre. Read more
Published on 20 May 2005 by Jon Swan

3.0 out of 5 stars Voyage to the end of the book
I'm not sure why I bought the book, I'm not sure what I liked about it, I'm not sure what it was about. Read more
Published on 26 Aug 2004

1.0 out of 5 stars Voyage to the end of boredom
I bought this book as it apparently was of the same style as Platform. Unfortunately it has been a very disappointing read. Read more
Published on 16 Jul 2004

5.0 out of 5 stars Come to my Bookcase
I bought this book because "people who ordered x, also ordered Voyage to the End of the Room". It was a whim. Thanks for the suggestion. I loved it. Read more
Published on 14 Jan 2004

3.0 out of 5 stars Humane, wittily written digression
Voyage To The End Of The Room succeeds as a result of Tibor Fischer's incredibly creative use of language. Read more
Published on 19 Dec 2003 by bert nairobi

2.0 out of 5 stars Not really very good
Tibor Fischer has written a couple of other amusing, intermittently clever novels (The Thought Gang, Under the Frog). Read more
Published on 16 Dec 2003

3.0 out of 5 stars Voyage back to the bookshop
Like another reviewer, I bought this book because I saw it in FHM magazine and liked the cover. The cover remains my favourite part of the book. Read more
Published on 10 Dec 2003 by huckfin

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