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Squat
- A week squatting at Kanye’s mansion
- Narrated by: John Safran
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
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Publisher's Summary
'This house is freaking me out. It's bad for me. But I'm finishing this.'
Discovering Kanye West is endorsing Adolf Hitler, John Safran heads to America to find out what's up. Kanye proves elusive, one thing leads to another, and John packs his duffle bags and moves in, squatting at one of Kanye's mansions in the rolling hills of Los Angeles.
Will the neighbours get wise and snitch to the cops? Are the creatures in the woods behind the mansion a worry? More paranoid each day, John becomes convinced the house itself is turning against him.
Alone with his thoughts in Kanye's haunt, John finds himself asking where he fits into the world as a Jew. Dangerous and hilarious, Squat is for anyone who's been told they don't belong.
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- Anonymous User
- 16-11-2024
John is infectious
I love listening to John as I feel that I am on journey in his head. Who would think to do what he did but it was entertaining and hilarious. Well done.
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- Craig Miller
- 30-10-2024
wonderfully thought provoking
I loved John Safran's storytelling. He takes us on a personal adventure providing a wonderful and new perspective on some enduring issues.
Along the way he asks the reader some beautiful questions that will stay with me long after the recording has finished.
I totally recommend this recording - despite what Hummusman might say!
Thank you John Safran!
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- Vaughan Smith
- 30-10-2024
A great storyteller
John Safran really knows how to tell a story. His actions and perspective, no matter how close idealogically and culturally to one's own, are always unexpected and bizarre due to Safran's unique and endearing personality.
Squat, like his previous books, is well-told, informative and undeniably entertaining. Squat is 100% personal. In this literary equation Safran is to the power of Safran and Kanye is relegated to parentheses. And I wouldn't have it any other way.
What other author would go to these lengths for a long arch glance at neo-Nazism in popular western culture? What other author would even consider this approach valid?
Safran is a true original, and that he is still sneaking into VIP events and wading through swollen rivers into billionaire compounds, and sipping tepid rainwater in abandoned mansions is testament to his enduring success as a cultural blagueur and profound peturber.
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- Callan
- 07-11-2024
Safran at his best
Having been a big fan of John's since his Music Jamboree days, it's been really great to see him evolve into a highly capable author over the years. What this book does is combine the polish and wit of his writing with the patented Safran hijinx of old.
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- Anonymous User
- 25-10-2024
Music Jamboree 2024
Feels like the content of a new episode of music jamboree - insightful cultural and historical discussion amongst bumbling hijinks and action adventure spirit
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- Amazon Customer
- 28-10-2024
Another good one from Saffran
I always like John's books and storytelling. Even being an anti-theist who finds Kanye to be a low talent narcissist, I was hooked on where this was going and ended up.
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- Anonymous User
- 28-10-2024
Safran delivering the goods
My favourite book of the year. Safran is hilarious and relatable while being thought provoking.
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- thereadaholic
- 20-11-2024
One for the fans
Fans of John Safran will love this book. It's an entertaining madcap ride as John visits America with his then girlfriend Antoinette, meets a bunch of eccentric people and ends up squatting in one of Kanye West's mansion on a self-described writer's retreat.
The best parts of the book are John's encounters with other characters: a preacher who thinks most Christians whitewash the degrading scatology of Jesus' death on the cross; a Native American with a sobering tale of the genocide of his people who once lived on the land in and around Hollywood; a fellow Jewish creative who became an outspoken Holocaust denier, was assaulted by members of a Jewish terrorist group, changed his name and forged a successful career in Hollywood before being cancelled when his past caught up with him.
The book, however, lacks cohesion, with the 'hook' of John squatting in Kanye's mansion feeling a bit contrived. Much of John's musings about himself, Judaism, antisemitism and the Holocaust descend into self-indulgent ramblings. They are well-written and entertaining but unfocused.
If you are new to Safrran, I suggest starting with one of his other books: Puff Piece, Depends What You Mean By Extremist or Murder in Mississippi.
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