“End Credits is an amusing, darkly playful book about morality, life, death and everything in between. Raymond Kessel is a curious everyman who throughout the course of this novel endures his own existence as well as another man's, jumping the train to end up stuck and just as unhappy in this other guy's body as he was in his own mediocre life. The concepts of parallel reincarnation in this book are funny and compelling, and with the endless and cheeky similes, I was often laughing out loud at Rützy's preposterous comparisons. Since everyone dies sooner or later, the universal scope of End Credits was thought-provoking and entertaining.The cast of characters in End Credits is intriguing, as many are transient and you get glimpses into the lives of several archetypes and their final thoughts before death. As an artist who often makes light of death in my own work, this book had irresistible appeal in its humor and subjects. The role of corporations in the afterlife was handled masterfully by Rützy, interjecting this concept lightly and puckishly throughout the book. Much in the way you would expect George Carlin to behave if he was the agent of Death, the harbinger Cleo makes his entries at appropriate times and always provides a wry humor about ushering people into the great beyond. In Rützy's debut novel, you will laugh, sometimes re-read a sentence and laugh again. I have added this young and talented author with his Pythonesque appeal to my watchlist and am eagerly awaiting the publication of his next novel. If you enjoy witty, darkly humorous writing, this is a fantastic book to add to your collection. ”
