If you think life can be tough sometimes, try being artisticWhy are those artistic types so damn tortured? Painting pictures, espousing poetry, writing novels, etcetera. They are hardly saving the world by indulging in their hobbies. Their grandiose pretentions are not really heroic, are they? This satire follows three artists as they act upon their creative urges and neuroses, spiralling downwards with impetuous romanticism and a refusal to be cubicled by “real” life. This is a contemporary black comedy that refuses to just stroke its beard and muse wistfully with a charade of intellect. If only life could be that superficial...This is a novel that will appeal to anyone who went to university with ambitions that are now compromised or forgotten. The book is about the elitist art world but it is a satire so can be enjoyed by those who love or loathe it or simply think it is an alien breed in equal measure. Read this if you liked Great Apes by Will Self, Fight Club by Chuck Palahnuik, American Psycho by Brett Easton Ellis.