Bream Gives Me Hiccups
"Brilliantly witty, deeply intelligent, and just plain hilarious. If David Sedaris wrote about Carmelo Anthony, Bosnian genocide, and ramen-stealing college freshmen, it would probably come out something like Jesse Eisenberg’s Bream Gives Me Hiccups. A moving portrait of human beings at their...
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"Brilliantly witty, deeply intelligent, and just plain hilarious. If David Sedaris wrote about Carmelo Anthony, Bosnian genocide, and ramen-stealing college freshmen, it would probably come out something like Jesse Eisenberg’s Bream Gives Me Hiccups. A moving portrait of human beings at their weaker moments, and a wonderful send-up of the insanities of modern America.”—She
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Format: Hardcover
ISBN:
9780802124043 (0802124046)
Pages no: 256
Edition language: English
This book is full of crazy people. For the most part, I enjoyed spending time with them. The collection is all over the place, with letters and dialogues and jokes and, well, some of these I didn't know what to call them. I think the word for that is essay -- something to say when you don't know ...
Bream Gives me Hiccups is like most story collections in that there will always be some stories that won’t work for you and some that will. But one of my major issues with this book is that I cannot pinpoint what connects these stories together. Sure they have many things in common but I cannot find...
REVIEW TO COME4----------------------------------------------------------------------------EDIT: YES! NetGalley approved my request! I'll be starting this tonight :D -------------------------------------------------------------------------“This isn’t a James Franco situation where he’s trying to pas...
I received this book in exchange for an honest review.I’ve always liked Jesse Eisenberg, which is odd, because I can’t think of a movie I’ve seen him in that I actually enjoyed (except ‘The Village,’ which doesn’t count because he was in it for, what, two scenes?) But I’ve always liked him, his act...
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