Complete idiot (novel)
Vollidiot is a 2004 bestselling novel by the German writer Tommy Jaud . In 2007 the first sequel, Millionaire , appeared, and in 2012 the second, Überman .
The book was under the same title with the 2007 Oliver Pocher starring filmed .
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Simon Peters works as a " T-Punkt " salesman and has been left by his girlfriend. He is now making his way through five stages of processing, while he is developing more and more into a complete idiot . As a result, he is unemployed, heavily in debt, and relationships with his friends are deteriorating. He tries to cover up his inner dissatisfaction with sarcasm . This expresses itself especially in dealing with his friends. He also signs up for a fitness club, which he rarely goes to.
After he comes back from his single club vacation without a love experience, his mood worsens. Shortly afterwards, he falls in love with the waitress “Marcia P. Garcia” from the American coffee chain Starbucks . After difficulties establishing contact with her, he and his best friend Paula develop a plan by inviting Marcia to a concert of the Fantastischen Vier . There, his dream woman turns out, with whom the protagonist is already playing through children and marriage in his head, but as a superficial and egocentric bitch .
Due to the progressive conversion to morons his friends Paula, Flik and Phil. Simon ensure visited Fliks Spanish course to there to meet his new girlfriend Daniela. Daniela falls in love with him and ends her relationship with Flik. After a visit to a Cologne brothel , he confesses the whole story to Flik, whereupon this friendship also crumbles. In the end, Simon loses his job because he sold a cell phone to an eight-year-old but then took it back in a burglary. He reacts to this by completely isolating himself from the outside world by locking himself in, turning off the doorbell and the phone, and getting fast food and wine.
On his 30th birthday, Paula breaks open the door with two firefighters and talks to him, which this time is effective. Using an SMS that he inadvertently sends to his entire phone book, he invites all the characters in the book to his birthday party. At the party, he falls in love with his former boss. As a symbolic final act, he burns his single chair "Jennylund", which he bought at the beginning of the story, in the Ikea car park.
Audio book
- The book was set to music as an audio book in 2005; The speaker was Christoph Maria Herbst . The foreword is read by the author Tommy Jaud himself.
Reviews
- Wolfgang Höbel stated in the Spiegel that Tommy Jaud had revitalized an idle genre with the bestsellers “Vollidiot” and “ Resturlaub ” - the German men's novel.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wolfgang Höbel: Entertainment: Mouse bear on a long journey in: Der Spiegel , issue 30/2006, accessed on March 24, 2008