The reviews said this was supposed to be funny. I honestly can't say if it is or not because I disliked the book so much I never finished it. I wanted to like it, but the main character bored me to tears. An over-privileged under-stimulated middle class college graduate with no direction in his...
Little did I realize when I picked up this book that it would be a depressing look at a suburban slacker's struggle to figure out who he was. At first I sniggered along with his snarky irreverent references to the kids he worked with as "retards" but that joke got old pretty quick. I'm not sure what...
Like many modern twentysomethings, Calvin is a slacker still struggling to enter the "real world" a few years after college, saddled with debt and living with his parents, realizing that his education hasn't prepared him for a job. The urge to regress to his high school habits or run away entirely ...