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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Yet another unique offering by Saunders, one of the ten best writers working in America. No one writes like this guy, he and Jim Shepard are in a league of their own. (  ) CliffBurns | Oct 29, 2008 |  This book is very, very short. Which is good because it is stupid, but stupid can be good sometimes and in small doses. You really can't imaging the detail of the book, because it seems to be written from a very abstract point of view. Kinda of like the characters are from some other dimension. I did enjoy the story. To keep it simple, it seems to be about how retarded we (the human race) can act with power but no real knowledge or direction which to apply it. All scaled down. It has it's funny points as well as it touching moments. Far to weird for me to give it more than three stars though. (  ) danofthedead33 | Aug 29, 2008 | perlle | Mar 25, 2008 | Very quick but enjoying read. Sort of like Animal Farm in a sci-fi version. An obvious moral tale about what we are doing in Iraq. ( ) HvyMetalMG | Aug 22, 2007 | This book is easy and clever and makes merry sport mocking the way things are handled in the world. It's a little bizarre, so don't expect some straightfoward satire. I'm not even sure if the people in it are people or robots or freaky alien things made of stuff dug up in the backyard. All I know is that I thoroughly enjoyed it. ( ) TooHotty | May 7, 2007 |  no reviews | add a review
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So begins The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil. Fueled by Saunders's unrivaled wit, outlandish imagination, and incisive political sensibility, here is a deeply strange yet strangely familiar fable of power and impotence, justice and injustice--an Animal Farm for our times.
Praise for George Saunders Author of Pastoralia and Civilwarland in Bad Decline
"An astoundingly tuned voice--graceful, dark, authentic, and funny--telling just the kinds of stories we need to get us through these times."
--Thomas Pynchon
"Mr. Saunders writes like the illegitimate offspring of Nathanael West and Kurt Vonnegut. [His] satiric vision of America is dark and demented; it is also ferocious and very funny."
--Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
"A master of distilling the disorders of our time into fiction."
--Salon.com
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Read George Saunders's Essay, "Why I Wrote Phil"
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