To Rise Again at a Decent Hour
by:
Joshua Ferris (author)
Format: kindle
ASIN: B00H7O87H0
Publish date: June 5th 2014
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 320
Edition language: English
ended about 2 chapters/segments after I was feeling some resolution and readiness for an epilogue or the end, but funny, vicious, empathetic, and thoughtful. A VERY enjoyable book.
Dr. Paul O'Rourke, DDS, is one of those characters you can't help but love to hate. And hate to love. He is such a curmudgeon. When O'Rourke is not busy making feeble attempts at normal conversation or getting lost in thoughts while seeing a patient, he is often enveloped in the most hilarious of ra...
Paul O'Rourke is an avowed atheist and Red Sox Fanatic working in New York City. Despite his thriving dental practice he is dissatisfied. He obsesses over his ex-girlfriend, and receptionist, Connie, and hates the popular obsession with online social networking and "me-machines" when it has nothing ...
“Ha, ha.” As far as epigraphs go, these two interjectory words from the book of Job do as good a job as any at describing the book’s content: humorous, yet poignant. At first, I was laughing along at reading about the life of a seemingly obsessive Manhattan dentist: taping every Red Sox game fo...
I received this book for free through Goodreads First Reads.To Rise Again at a Decent Hour was just okay for me. I wasn't laughing out loud like other reviewers, perhaps it was the genre that didn't appeal to me. Nonetheless, I found the subject matter interesting, we live in a time where the social...
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