Human Resources

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Summary: Humorous and Thought-Provoking
Review: Although Floyd Kemske jokes about being an obscure novelist, it is truly a shame that his pioneering books about downsizing, corporate cold-bloodedness and wacky HR policies are not more widely known. "Human Resources" possesses enough wit to entertain and challenge as it draws the reader into the ultimate in predatory workplaces. Lovers of Dilbert and corporate skeptics will enjoy the acid penned approach and even some HR types will smile at his depiction of an anti-personnel department. Kemske is somewhat of an acquired taste, but he is well worth your time.

Rating:
Summary: Human Puppets
Review: I found the characters in this novel to be rather flat. They seemed not to care about anything or anyone around them, and didn't inpsire me to care about them either. It came to a half-hearted flat conclusion as well, with no reprucussions for anyone.

Rating:
Summary: Human Puppets
Review: I found the characters in this novel to be rather flat. They seemed not to care about anything or anyone around them, and didn't inpsire me to care about them either. It came to a half-hearted flat conclusion as well, with no reprucussions for anyone.

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Summary: riotous Swiftian satire
Review: This is the second novel by Floyd Kemske I've read (Lifetime Employment being the first).

Kemske's voice is a mixture of cool and detached perspective, with a little...something that quietly says, "all is not quite right." Reading Kemske is like reading a Kubrick film. Comparison to J.G. Ballard and Christopher Fowler also come easily.

Giving the story away, this is easily the best vampire novel I've ever read. I recommend this and Lifetime Employment very highly.

Rating:
Summary: riotous Swiftian satire
Review: When I see drivers yacking on their cellphones in the evening rush hour, I know it's the pent up lunacy they sold their souls in exchange for corporate salaries with. Kemske must have temped in the corporate world to know it so well; he couldn't have had permanent employment in it and retain THIS kind of voice, full of Palahniukian savagery and Swiftian rage. It's riotous good fun and you'll recognize in it the "real" people who cut you off in traffic with their shiny new Jeep Libertys or Chevy Blazers. That is, unless you have the misfortune to know them more intimately.