This book is quite fun, an easy and really quick read (due to the splitting into "chapelettes"), but nonetheless it doesn't lack the capacity to draw you into the lives of the, sometimes odd or slightly crazy characters. I really liked it, even more because I bought it at a book sale for 50 cents - ...
So unrelentingly clever that it can become exhausting to read. I can't imagine how much brain power went into to writing it. Basically every sentence contains its own punchline. My mind slowed down each time I tried to read Ron de Jean with the specified pronunciation. My mind had to slow down a lo...
This is like the Seinfeld of books: clever, hilarious, but ultimately about nothing in particular. Patricia Marx is a comic writer for Saturday Night Live, and that may have something to do with why her book reads like a collection of comedic sketches (but, like, funny ones)."Her" is a neurotic, und...