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<td class="field num_pages" style="display: none"><label>num pages</label><div class="value"> <nobr> 416 <span class="greyText">pp</span> </nobr> </div></td> <td class="field avg_rating"><label>avg rating</label><div class="value"> 3.98 </div></td> <td class="field num_ratings" style="display: none"><label>num ratings</label><div class="value"> 30,643 </div></td> <td class="field date_pub" style="display: none"><label>date pub</label><div class="value"> Jun 29, 2010 </div></td> <td class="field date_pub_edition" style="display: none"><label>date pub edition</label><div class="value"> Jul 05, 2011 </div></td> <td class="field rating"><label>Jason's rating</label><div class="value"> <span class=" staticStars notranslate" title="liked it"><span size="15x15" class="staticStar p10">liked it</span><span size="15x15" class="staticStar p10"></span><span size="15x15" class="staticStar p10"></span><span size="15x15" class="staticStar p0"></span><span size="15x15" class="staticStar 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intriguing. <i>Couldn’t put it down</i>, he says. I could’ve probably put it down, but I promised him I would read it and read it I</span> <span id="freeTextreview2434719078" style="display:none">My friend found this book intriguing. <i>Couldn’t put it down</i>, he says. I could’ve probably put it down, but I promised him I would read it and read it I did. In <i>Sex at Dawn</i>, Christopher Ryan lays down a slew of what he believes to be persuasive arguments for our prehistoric ancestors being sexually promiscuous. Considering that we are most closely related to the bonobo (a ‘pygmy chimp’) in the evolutionary sense, he draws parallels between the bonobo’s behavior and anatomical particularities to those of humans in order to suggest that our two species are sociosexually similar, as well. (Not to give anything away, but apparently bonobos are insatiable whores!) The point of Ryan’s point, I guess, is to point out that we humans—as a general rule—commit to monogamous relationships because doing so is socially accepted and expected, but that we may in fact be damaging ourselves and our loved ones by acting in discordance with our innate, biologically-programmed sexual needs.<br /><br />There wasn’t anything I inherently disliked about this book—though the casual language likely meant to foster a ‘connection’ with lay readers leaves something to be desired—I wasn’t interested enough in the subject matter to be swayed by Ryan’s arguments. Even if our prehistoric ancestors were polygamous, what does it matter? Somewhere along the line it became more worthwhile for humans to live in committed, monogamous relationships (whether for social, economic, or perhaps other reasons entirely), and as with any choice made by anyone anywhere ever, it will always be at the expense of something. Perhaps this does leave us more sexually frustrated at times than our ancestors were, but I’d like to believe that the return on this investment provides us a reward that is greater than the sum of our frustrations.<br /><br />At least I fucking hope so.</span> <a data-text-id="review2434719078" href="#" onclick="swapContent($(this));; return false;">...more</a> <div class="clear"></div> </div></td><td class="field notes" style="display: none"><label>notes</label><div class="value"> <span class="greyText">Notes are private!</span> </div></td> <td class="field comments" style="display: none"><label>comments</label><div class="value"> <a href="/review/show/2434719078">3</a> </div></td> <td class="field votes" style="display: none"><label>votes</label><div class="value"> <a href="/rating/voters/2434719078?resource_type=Review">35</a> </div></td> <td class="field read_count" style="display: none"><label># times read</label><div class="value"> 1 </div></td><td class="field date_started" style="display: none"><label>date started</label><div class="value"> <div class="date_row"> <div class="editable_date date_started_amzn1grreading_sessionv1c1b1544629c94b0b8c66415aa033ab44"> <span class="greyText">not set</span> </div> </div> </div></td><td class="field date_read"><label>date read</label><div class="value"> <div class="date_row"> <div class="editable_date date_read_amzn1grreading_sessionv1c1b1544629c94b0b8c66415aa033ab44"> <span class="date_read_value">Jun 29, 2018</span> </div> </div> </div></td><td class="field date_added"><label>date added</label><div class="value"> <span title="June 24, 2018"> Jun 24, 2018 </span> </div></td><td class="field owned" style="display: none"><label>owned</label><div class="value"></div></td> <td class="field format" style="display: none"><label>format</label><div class="value"> Paperback </div></td><td class="field actions"><label>actions</label><div class="value"> <div> <a class="nobreak" href="/review/show/2434719078">view (with text)</a> </div> </div></td> </tr> <tr id="review_1503747418" class="bookalike review"> <td class="field checkbox"><label>checkbox</label><div class="value"> </div></td> <td class="field position" style="display: none"><label>position</label><div class="value"></div></td> <td class="field cover"><label>cover</label><div class="value"> <div class="js-tooltipTrigger tooltipTrigger" data-resource-type="Book" data-resource-id="25090558"> <a href="/book/show/25090558-slade-house"><img alt="Slade House" id="cover_review_1503747418" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1438728646l/25090558._SX50_.jpg" /></a> </div> </div></td> <td class="field title"><label>title</label><div class="value"> <a title="Slade House" href="/book/show/25090558-slade-house"> Slade House </a></div></td> <td class="field author"><label>author</label><div class="value"> <a href="/author/show/6538289.David_Mitchell">Mitchell, David</a> </div></td> <td class="field isbn" style="display: none"><label>isbn</label><div class="value"> 0345810198 </div></td> <td class="field isbn13" style="display: none"><label>isbn13</label><div class="value"> 9780345810199 </div></td> <td class="field asin" style="display: none"><label>asin</label><div class="value"> 0345810198 </div></td> <td class="field num_pages" style="display: none"><label>num pages</label><div class="value"> <nobr> 160 <span class="greyText">pp</span> </nobr> </div></td> <td class="field avg_rating"><label>avg rating</label><div class="value"> 3.81 </div></td> <td class="field num_ratings" style="display: none"><label>num ratings</label><div class="value"> 66,639 </div></td> <td class="field date_pub" style="display: none"><label>date pub</label><div class="value"> Oct 2015 </div></td> <td class="field date_pub_edition" style="display: none"><label>date pub edition</label><div class="value"> Oct 27, 2015 </div></td> <td class="field rating"><label>Jason's rating</label><div class="value"> <span class=" staticStars notranslate" title="really liked it"><span size="15x15" class="staticStar p10">really liked it</span><span size="15x15" class="staticStar p10"></span><span size="15x15" class="staticStar p10"></span><span size="15x15" class="staticStar p10"></span><span size="15x15" class="staticStar p0"></span></span> </div></td><td class="field shelves"><label>my rating</label><div class="value"> <div class="stars" data-resource-id="25090558" data-user-id="0" data-submit-url="/review/rate/25090558?stars_click=false" data-rating="0" data-restore-rating="null"><a class="star off" title="did not like it" href="#" ref="">1 of 5 stars</a><a class="star off" title="it was ok" href="#" ref="">2 of 5 stars</a><a class="star off" title="liked it" href="#" ref="">3 of 5 stars</a><a class="star off" title="really liked it" href="#" ref="">4 of 5 stars</a><a class="star off" title="it was amazing" href="#" ref="">5 of 5 stars</a></div> <span id="reviewMessage25090558_false"></span> <span id="successMessage25090558_false"></span> <div> <a class="smallText actionLinkLite" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">add to shelves</a> </div> </div></td><td class="field review" style="display: none"><label>review</label><div class="value"> <span id="freeTextContainerreview1503747418">Geez, I guess it’s been awhile—nine months since my last review, in fact. I think the problem is this: the world has turned to shit. How can one allow</span> <span id="freeTextreview1503747418" style="display:none">Geez, I guess it’s been awhile—nine months since my last review, in fact. I think the problem is this: the world has turned to shit. How can one allow himself the luxury of distraction when all the things that used to matter (e.g. facts, words, truth) no longer do? I feel as though...as though disconnecting from reality, even temporarily, is akin to complicity. Remember when you were taught that witnessing an evil act but doing nothing to stop it made you just as guilty as the one committing the wrongdoing? Well, broaden that concept and that pretty much sums up my life. I can’t do anything without worrying what horrible things are happening that I don’t know about, and which of course I <i>need</i> to know about, and ultimately <i>do</i> something about or else I’m a failure, which is clearly a vicious cycle because it is something over which I have no actual control—this shit is way too big for me to do anything about on my own, except to stew and seethe and writhe and tweet. So a few pages of a book, or a few minutes of a sitcom, is about all I afford myself. And not becauses I don’t want more! It’s just that...the world might be falling apart (and likely IS FALLING APART!!!1) and here I am reading about a couple of soul-suckers luring prey into their orisons and lacunas, whatever those are? What kind of person willingly gives up everything that has ever mattered to him just to lose himself in a fucking daydream?<br /><br />Except that’s just it. I’m stuck in this hyper-vigilant, wide-awake world where it’s high-octane coffee allthefuckingtime or else Earth implodes on my watch, so I’d super better be watching.<br /><br />About a month ago I got into a fight with this asshole who tried to tell me that I was making too much of things, that “none of this really affects me.” Jesus. AYFKM? I didn’t even know how to respond, partly because I wondered if he were right. What if all this stress, this fear, this expectation of impending doom, is nothing more than a manifestation of my own self-righteousness?<br /><br /> Well, you know what? It isn’t. This is <i>my</i> world and <i>my</i> country and <i>my</i> goddam life, and it matters to me so therefore it affects me. And somehow I found the opportunity to distract myself just enough to read this tiny book and you know what? I liked it. Maybe this reading thing could actually go somewhere.<br /><br />(Little victories.)</span> <a data-text-id="review1503747418" href="#" onclick="swapContent($(this));; return false;">...more</a> <div class="clear"></div> </div></td><td class="field notes" style="display: none"><label>notes</label><div class="value"> <span class="greyText">Notes are private!</span> </div></td> <td class="field comments" style="display: none"><label>comments</label><div class="value"> <a href="/review/show/1503747418">8</a> </div></td> <td class="field votes" style="display: none"><label>votes</label><div class="value"> <a href="/rating/voters/1503747418?resource_type=Review">50</a> </div></td> <td class="field read_count" style="display: none"><label># times read</label><div class="value"> 1 </div></td><td class="field date_started" style="display: none"><label>date started</label><div class="value"> <div class="date_row"> <div class="editable_date date_started_971b7841c673428d89a2c9b2343ac38f"> <span 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none"><label>position</label><div class="value"></div></td> <td class="field cover"><label>cover</label><div class="value"> <div class="js-tooltipTrigger tooltipTrigger" data-resource-type="Book" data-resource-id="13414715"> <a href="/book/show/13414715-the-other"><img alt="The Other" id="cover_review_1395028276" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1342737037l/13414715._SY75_.jpg" /></a> </div> </div></td> <td class="field title"><label>title</label><div class="value"> <a title="The Other" href="/book/show/13414715-the-other"> The Other </a></div></td> <td class="field author"><label>author</label><div class="value"> <a href="/author/show/128447.Thomas_Tryon">Tryon, Thomas</a> </div></td> <td class="field isbn" style="display: none"><label>isbn</label><div class="value"> 1590175832 </div></td> <td class="field isbn13" style="display: none"><label>isbn13</label><div class="value"> 9781590175835 </div></td> <td class="field asin" style="display: none"><label>asin</label><div class="value"> 1590175832 </div></td> <td class="field num_pages" style="display: none"><label>num pages</label><div class="value"> <nobr> 258 <span class="greyText">pp</span> </nobr> </div></td> <td class="field avg_rating"><label>avg rating</label><div class="value"> 3.98 </div></td> <td class="field num_ratings" style="display: none"><label>num ratings</label><div class="value"> 22,359 </div></td> <td class="field date_pub" style="display: none"><label>date pub</label><div class="value"> 1971 </div></td> <td class="field date_pub_edition" style="display: none"><label>date pub edition</label><div class="value"> Oct 02, 2012 </div></td> <td class="field rating"><label>Jason's rating</label><div class="value"> <span class=" staticStars notranslate" title="liked it"><span size="15x15" class="staticStar p10">liked it</span><span size="15x15" class="staticStar p10"></span><span size="15x15" class="staticStar p10"></span><span size="15x15" class="staticStar p0"></span><span size="15x15" class="staticStar p0"></span></span> </div></td><td class="field shelves"><label>my rating</label><div class="value"> <div class="stars" data-resource-id="13414715" data-user-id="0" data-submit-url="/review/rate/13414715?stars_click=false" data-rating="0" data-restore-rating="null"><a class="star off" title="did not like it" href="#" ref="">1 of 5 stars</a><a class="star off" title="it was ok" href="#" ref="">2 of 5 stars</a><a class="star off" title="liked it" href="#" ref="">3 of 5 stars</a><a class="star off" title="really liked it" href="#" ref="">4 of 5 stars</a><a class="star off" title="it was amazing" href="#" ref="">5 of 5 stars</a></div> <span id="reviewMessage13414715_false"></span> <span id="successMessage13414715_false"></span> <div> <a class="smallText actionLinkLite" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">add to shelves</a> </div> </div></td><td class="field review" style="display: none"><label>review</label><div class="value"> <span id="freeTextContainerreview1395028276">A stranger on the Internet instructed me to review this book, so I guess I’ll do as I’m told.<br/><br/>This book is okay. Actually, the second half of this book</span> <span id="freeTextreview1395028276" style="display:none">A stranger on the Internet instructed me to review this book, so I guess I’ll do as I’m told.<br /><br />This book is okay. Actually, the second half of this book is <i>great</i>, but still not great enough to resurrect the full work to anywhere beyond its three-star label of mediocrity.<br /><br />Often with mystery novels there is a slow but steady build of intensity, a momentum that gathers in a such a way that the reader remains riveted to the end. That occurs here, as well, so I don’t ascribe my disappointment with the first half of the book to any lack of momentum on its part. Instead, I think I was turned off by the writing. In fact, I’d say that the plot drive in the second half was so well executed that it overcame what I would otherwise have to describe as naïve, whimsical writing. But in the author’s defense, he <i>was</i> (at the time of this book’s initial publication, anyway) a naïve writer. <i>The Other</i> was Thomas Tryon’s first novel, written after having spent much of his early adulthood as a Hollywood film actor.<br /><br /><i>The Other</i> is a frame story, but the identity of the narrator is unknown until the book’s denouement. The story involves two twin boys, one of whom is a vicious evildoer while the other acts as his doe-eyed apostle. Of course, every evil deed performed is accompanied by telling amounts of circumstantial ambiguity so one could probably see “The Big Reveal” coming a mile away, especially if he’s seen enough M. Night Shyamalan films. Still, the reveal (and the events which occur after it) are well executed, as I stated earlier, which makes this book—all being said—ok.</span> <a data-text-id="review1395028276" href="#" onclick="swapContent($(this));; return false;">...more</a> <div class="clear"></div> </div></td><td class="field notes" style="display: none"><label>notes</label><div class="value"> <span class="greyText">Notes are private!</span> </div></td> <td class="field comments" style="display: none"><label>comments</label><div class="value"> <a href="/review/show/1395028276">6</a> </div></td> <td class="field votes" style="display: none"><label>votes</label><div class="value"> <a href="/rating/voters/1395028276?resource_type=Review">31</a> </div></td> <td class="field read_count" style="display: none"><label># times read</label><div class="value"> 1 </div></td><td class="field date_started" style="display: none"><label>date started</label><div class="value"> <div class="date_row"> <div class="editable_date 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</div></td> <td class="field position" style="display: none"><label>position</label><div class="value"></div></td> <td class="field cover"><label>cover</label><div class="value"> <div class="js-tooltipTrigger tooltipTrigger" data-resource-type="Book" data-resource-id="20910157"> <a href="/book/show/20910157-yes-please"><img alt="Yes Please" id="cover_review_1086881413" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1402815435l/20910157._SY75_.jpg" /></a> </div> </div></td> <td class="field title"><label>title</label><div class="value"> <a title="Yes Please" href="/book/show/20910157-yes-please"> Yes Please </a></div></td> <td class="field author"><label>author</label><div class="value"> <a href="/author/show/7350402.Amy_Poehler">Poehler, Amy</a> </div></td> <td class="field isbn" style="display: none"><label>isbn</label><div class="value"> 0062268341 </div></td> <td class="field isbn13" style="display: none"><label>isbn13</label><div class="value"> 9780062268341 </div></td> <td class="field asin" style="display: none"><label>asin</label><div class="value"> 0062268341 </div></td> <td class="field num_pages" style="display: none"><label>num pages</label><div class="value"> <nobr> 329 <span class="greyText">pp</span> </nobr> </div></td> <td class="field avg_rating"><label>avg rating</label><div class="value"> 3.85 </div></td> <td class="field num_ratings" style="display: none"><label>num ratings</label><div class="value"> 537,715 </div></td> <td class="field date_pub" style="display: none"><label>date pub</label><div class="value"> Oct 28, 2014 </div></td> <td class="field date_pub_edition" style="display: none"><label>date pub edition</label><div class="value"> Oct 28, 2014 </div></td> <td class="field rating"><label>Jason's rating</label><div class="value"> <span class=" staticStars notranslate" title="did not like it"><span size="15x15" class="staticStar p10">did not like it</span><span size="15x15" class="staticStar p0"></span><span size="15x15" class="staticStar p0"></span><span size="15x15" class="staticStar p0"></span><span size="15x15" class="staticStar p0"></span></span> </div></td><td class="field shelves"><label>my rating</label><div class="value"> <div class="stars" data-resource-id="20910157" data-user-id="0" data-submit-url="/review/rate/20910157?stars_click=false" data-rating="0" data-restore-rating="null"><a class="star off" title="did not like it" href="#" ref="">1 of 5 stars</a><a class="star off" title="it was ok" href="#" ref="">2 of 5 stars</a><a class="star off" title="liked it" href="#" ref="">3 of 5 stars</a><a class="star off" title="really liked it" href="#" ref="">4 of 5 stars</a><a class="star off" title="it was amazing" href="#" ref="">5 of 5 stars</a></div> <span id="reviewMessage20910157_false"></span> <span id="successMessage20910157_false"></span> <div> <a class="smallText actionLinkLite" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">add to shelves</a> </div> </div></td><td class="field review" style="display: none"><label>review</label><div class="value"> <span id="freeTextContainerreview1086881413">It breaks my heart to give this book one star.<br/><br/>I love Amy Poehler. In fact I love every member of that early two-thousands (the decade, not the century</span> <span id="freeTextreview1086881413" style="display:none">It breaks my heart to give this book one star.<br /><br />I love Amy Poehler. In fact I love every member of that early two-thousands (the decade, not the century) female <i>Saturday Night Live</i> cast ensemble: Poehler, Fey, Rudolph, Dratch.<br /><br /><a href="http://i1276.photobucket.com/albums/y472/ancatdubh2/ensemble_zps9a242ac1.jpg" title="Bitches be hiLARious!" rel="nofollow noopener"> [image] </a><br /><br />I often mentally include Kristen Wiig in the mix, too, because she’s fantastic, but she was sort of late to the party, having joined <i>SNL</i> a year before Dratch and Fey left.<br /><br />But as I was saying, I think highly of Poehler. I enjoy her comedy, her intelligence, her personality overall. But I didn’t like this book.<br /><br />To me, <i>Yes Please</i> reads more like a scatterbrained diary than the well-crafted memoir I had been hoping for. Very little of the book seems to have been composed with any forethought; it’s as though Poehler were performing improv in “lit” form. Except while she may be a master of the art on a stage, her improvisational talent doesn’t really migrate to the written page. Her stories meander along without any real segue between them, each having a very “oh and by the way” aspect to it. Maybe it was meant to be random and incoherent but it just didn’t work for me. <br /><br />At one point in the book Poehler mentions her addiction to self-googling, so in many ways I am hoping she doesn’t stumble across this review because I’d hate to imagine her feelings being hurt by it, so maybe it’s best that no one votes for it.<br /><br />In other words, do what you guys normally do.</span> <a data-text-id="review1086881413" href="#" onclick="swapContent($(this));; return false;">...more</a> <div class="clear"></div> </div></td><td class="field notes" style="display: none"><label>notes</label><div class="value"> <span class="greyText">Notes are private!</span> </div></td> <td class="field comments" style="display: none"><label>comments</label><div class="value"> <a href="/review/show/1086881413">47</a> </div></td> <td class="field votes" style="display: none"><label>votes</label><div class="value"> <a href="/rating/voters/1086881413?resource_type=Review">408</a> </div></td> <td class="field read_count" style="display: none"><label># times read</label><div class="value"> 1 </div></td><td class="field date_started" style="display: none"><label>date started</label><div class="value"> <div class="date_row"> <div class="editable_date date_started_c6af20228e4b469a80f58458f2329f1e"> <span class="greyText">not set</span> </div> </div> </div></td><td class="field date_read"><label>date read</label><div class="value"> <div class="date_row"> <div class="editable_date date_read_c6af20228e4b469a80f58458f2329f1e"> <span class="date_read_value">Nov 19, 2014</span> </div> </div> </div></td><td class="field date_added"><label>date added</label><div class="value"> <span title="October 22, 2014"> Oct 22, 2014 </span> </div></td><td class="field owned" style="display: none"><label>owned</label><div class="value"></div></td> <td class="field format" style="display: none"><label>format</label><div class="value"> Hardcover </div></td><td class="field actions"><label>actions</label><div class="value"> <div> <a class="nobreak" href="/review/show/1086881413">view (with text)</a> </div> </div></td> </tr> <tr id="review_999369463" class="bookalike review"> <td class="field checkbox"><label>checkbox</label><div class="value"> </div></td> <td class="field position" style="display: none"><label>position</label><div class="value"></div></td> <td class="field cover"><label>cover</label><div class="value"> <div class="js-tooltipTrigger tooltipTrigger" data-resource-type="Book" data-resource-id="135503"> <a href="/book/show/135503.A_Delicate_Balance"><img alt="A Delicate Balance" id="cover_review_999369463" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1328039386l/135503._SY75_.jpg" /></a> </div> </div></td> <td class="field title"><label>title</label><div class="value"> <a title="A Delicate Balance" href="/book/show/135503.A_Delicate_Balance"> A Delicate Balance </a></div></td> <td class="field author"><label>author</label><div class="value"> <a href="/author/show/9322.Edward_Albee">Albee, Edward</a> </div></td> <td class="field isbn" style="display: none"><label>isbn</label><div class="value"> 0452278090 </div></td> <td class="field isbn13" style="display: none"><label>isbn13</label><div class="value"> 9780452278097 </div></td> <td class="field asin" style="display: none"><label>asin</label><div class="value"> 0452278090 </div></td> <td class="field num_pages" style="display: none"><label>num pages</label><div class="value"> <nobr> 178 <span class="greyText">pp</span> </nobr> </div></td> <td class="field avg_rating"><label>avg rating</label><div class="value"> 3.91 </div></td> <td class="field num_ratings" style="display: none"><label>num ratings</label><div class="value"> 2,591 </div></td> <td class="field date_pub" style="display: none"><label>date pub</label><div class="value"> Jan 01, 1966 </div></td> <td class="field date_pub_edition" style="display: none"><label>date pub edition</label><div class="value"> Jan 01, 1997 </div></td> <td class="field rating"><label>Jason's rating</label><div class="value"> <span class=" staticStars notranslate" title="really liked it"><span size="15x15" class="staticStar p10">really liked it</span><span size="15x15" class="staticStar p10"></span><span size="15x15" class="staticStar p10"></span><span size="15x15" class="staticStar p10"></span><span size="15x15" class="staticStar p0"></span></span> </div></td><td class="field shelves"><label>my rating</label><div class="value"> <div class="stars" data-resource-id="135503" data-user-id="0" data-submit-url="/review/rate/135503?stars_click=false" data-rating="0" data-restore-rating="null"><a class="star off" title="did not like it" href="#" ref="">1 of 5 stars</a><a class="star off" title="it was ok" href="#" ref="">2 of 5 stars</a><a class="star off" title="liked it" href="#" ref="">3 of 5 stars</a><a class="star off" title="really liked it" href="#" ref="">4 of 5 stars</a><a class="star off" title="it was amazing" href="#" ref="">5 of 5 stars</a></div> <span id="reviewMessage135503_false"></span> <span id="successMessage135503_false"></span> <div> <a class="smallText actionLinkLite" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">add to shelves</a> </div> </div></td><td class="field review" style="display: none"><label>review</label><div class="value"> <span id="freeTextContainerreview999369463">This play reminded me of <i>Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf</i> for all the obvious reasons—the biting sarcasm, the viciousness lying just below the surface o</span> <span id="freeTextreview999369463" style="display:none">This play reminded me of <i>Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf</i> for all the obvious reasons—the biting sarcasm, the viciousness lying just below the surface of the faux pleasantries. The scope of the discomfort is a bit broader in this Albee play, though. Instead of the focus being solely on the married couple, other bystanders get sucked into the fray. There’s even a slap across the face in one scene, which is something I always get a kick out of. Face-slapping scenes are the best, aren’t they? Sometimes I’ll tune into a soap opera when I’m home sick just to see if any faces are being slapped.<br /><br />I’m not sure who Harry and Edna are meant to represent. Probably they aren’t meant to “represent” anyone and I’m just being overly analytical as usual, but their presence in the play and their bizarre interactions with Agnes and Tobias are just a trifle too…<i>weird</i>…not to possess some sort of subtextual meaning. Plus, with dialogue like “for fear of looking into a mirror” and “our lives are the same,” I had to wonder whether Harry and Edna aren’t mere extensions of Agnes and Tobias themselves.<br /><br />Oh, you were expecting something deeper than that? Sorry, but that’s as far as I got. This ain’t AP English class, kids.<br /><br />I’ll be seeing this play on Broadway next month with some fellow Goodreaders. Glenn Close and John Lithgow will be assuming the roles of Agnes and Tobias. I think Glenn Close will make a great Agnes, too—being subtly antagonistic toward her fellow characters on the one hand while on the other trying to maintain a sense of order in a life that seems to lend itself only to chaos. It’s as though a school of hungry piranhas were threatening to close in on her and it’s her job to prevent a feeding frenzy while simultaneously keeping at bay the anxiety that gnaws at her from within.<br /><br />Tough job.</span> <a data-text-id="review999369463" href="#" onclick="swapContent($(this));; return false;">...more</a> <div class="clear"></div> </div></td><td class="field notes" style="display: none"><label>notes</label><div class="value"> <span class="greyText">Notes are private!</span> </div></td> <td class="field comments" style="display: none"><label>comments</label><div class="value"> <a href="/review/show/999369463">23</a> </div></td> <td class="field votes" style="display: none"><label>votes</label><div class="value"> <a href="/rating/voters/999369463?resource_type=Review">24</a> </div></td> <td class="field read_count" style="display: none"><label># times read</label><div class="value"> 1 </div></td><td class="field date_started" style="display: none"><label>date started</label><div class="value"> <div class="date_row"> <div class="editable_date date_started_376310ff3cde47729bf623e565e2928f"> <span class="greyText">not set</span> </div> </div> </div></td><td class="field date_read"><label>date read</label><div class="value"> <div class="date_row"> <div class="editable_date date_read_376310ff3cde47729bf623e565e2928f"> <span class="date_read_value">Sep 30, 2014</span> </div> </div> </div></td><td class="field date_added"><label>date added</label><div class="value"> <span title="July 17, 2014"> Jul 17, 2014 </span> </div></td><td class="field owned" style="display: none"><label>owned</label><div class="value"></div></td> <td class="field format" style="display: none"><label>format</label><div class="value"> Paperback </div></td><td class="field actions"><label>actions</label><div class="value"> <div> <a class="nobreak" href="/review/show/999369463">view (with text)</a> </div> </div></td> </tr> <tr id="review_939113569" class="bookalike review"> <td class="field checkbox"><label>checkbox</label><div class="value"> </div></td> <td class="field position" style="display: none"><label>position</label><div class="value"></div></td> <td class="field cover"><label>cover</label><div class="value"> <div class="js-tooltipTrigger tooltipTrigger" data-resource-type="Book" data-resource-id="56071"> <a href="/book/show/56071.The_Winter_of_Our_Discontent"><img alt="The Winter of Our Discontent" id="cover_review_939113569" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1393361139l/56071._SY75_.jpg" /></a> </div> </div></td> <td class="field title"><label>title</label><div class="value"> <a title="The Winter of Our Discontent" href="/book/show/56071.The_Winter_of_Our_Discontent"> The Winter of Our Discontent </a></div></td> <td class="field author"><label>author</label><div class="value"> <a href="/author/show/585.John_Steinbeck">Steinbeck, John</a> </div></td> <td class="field isbn" style="display: none"><label>isbn</label><div class="value"> 0141186313 </div></td> <td class="field isbn13" style="display: none"><label>isbn13</label><div class="value"> 9780141186313 </div></td> <td class="field asin" style="display: none"><label>asin</label><div class="value"> 0141186313 </div></td> <td class="field num_pages" style="display: none"><label>num pages</label><div class="value"> <nobr> 276 <span class="greyText">pp</span> </nobr> </div></td> <td class="field avg_rating"><label>avg rating</label><div class="value"> 4.01 </div></td> <td class="field num_ratings" style="display: none"><label>num ratings</label><div class="value"> 49,882 </div></td> <td class="field date_pub" style="display: none"><label>date pub</label><div class="value"> 1961 </div></td> <td class="field date_pub_edition" style="display: none"><label>date pub edition</label><div class="value"> Jan 01, 2001 </div></td> <td class="field rating"><label>Jason's rating</label><div class="value"> <span class=" staticStars notranslate" title="really liked it"><span size="15x15" class="staticStar p10">really liked it</span><span size="15x15" class="staticStar p10"></span><span size="15x15" class="staticStar p10"></span><span size="15x15" class="staticStar p10"></span><span size="15x15" class="staticStar p0"></span></span> </div></td><td class="field shelves"><label>my rating</label><div class="value"> <div class="stars" data-resource-id="56071" data-user-id="0" data-submit-url="/review/rate/56071?stars_click=false" data-rating="0" data-restore-rating="null"><a class="star off" title="did not like it" href="#" ref="">1 of 5 stars</a><a class="star off" title="it was ok" href="#" ref="">2 of 5 stars</a><a class="star off" title="liked it" href="#" ref="">3 of 5 stars</a><a class="star off" title="really liked it" href="#" ref="">4 of 5 stars</a><a class="star off" title="it was amazing" href="#" ref="">5 of 5 stars</a></div> <span id="reviewMessage56071_false"></span> <span id="successMessage56071_false"></span> <div> <a class="smallText actionLinkLite" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">add to shelves</a> </div> </div></td><td class="field review" style="display: none"><label>review</label><div class="value"> <span id="freeTextContainerreview939113569">It’s weird that this book seems to be among people’s least favorite Steinbeck novels. What gives? In <i>The Winter of our Discontent</i>, Steinbeck once agai</span> <span id="freeTextreview939113569" style="display:none">It’s weird that this book seems to be among people’s least favorite Steinbeck novels. What gives? In <i>The Winter of our Discontent</i>, Steinbeck once again proves himself a master at the craft of characterization, but whereas in prior novels his protagonists find themselves up against a litany of circumstances beyond their control (but which ultimately dictate their fate), his star character here is a little more sinister. Not to say that this isn’t a fatalistic novel, because it is, but certainly Ethan Allen Hawley takes matters into his own hands a bit more than his Steinbeckian counterparts. Though, maybe that’s the point—that the circumstances of Ethan’s existence are so stacked against him that taking matters into his own hands <i>is</i> Steinbeck’s version of ‘but he had no choice’.<br /><br />I’m not going to write a lot here because it’s my first time reviewing in a while and my fingers hurt but I did just want to say that I thought this was a really beautiful novel, and I found myself (not surprisingly) drawn to these characters in a way that’s fairly typical of John Steinbeck novels. Ethan’s self-rationalizations after <a class="jsShowSpoiler spoilerAction">(view spoiler)</a><span class="spoilerContainer" style="display: none">[exploiting Danny and duping Marullo <a class="jsHideSpoiler spoilerAction">(hide spoiler)</a>]</span> and the subsequent realizations of his own complicity in Allen’s moral upbringing were themes I found especially poignant.</span> <a data-text-id="review939113569" href="#" onclick="swapContent($(this));; return false;">...more</a> <div class="clear"></div> </div></td><td class="field notes" style="display: none"><label>notes</label><div class="value"> <span class="greyText">Notes are private!</span> </div></td> <td class="field comments" style="display: none"><label>comments</label><div class="value"> <a href="/review/show/939113569">0</a> </div></td> <td class="field votes" style="display: none"><label>votes</label><div class="value"> <a href="/rating/voters/939113569?resource_type=Review">20</a> </div></td> <td class="field read_count" style="display: none"><label># times read</label><div class="value"> 1 </div></td><td class="field date_started" style="display: none"><label>date started</label><div class="value"> <div class="date_row"> <div class="editable_date date_started_amzn1grreading_sessionv1807347ca023247bb9c20f4731bb93053"> <span class="greyText">not set</span> </div> </div> </div></td><td class="field date_read"><label>date read</label><div class="value"> <div class="date_row"> <div class="editable_date date_read_amzn1grreading_sessionv1807347ca023247bb9c20f4731bb93053"> <span class="date_read_value">Jun 30, 2018</span> </div> </div> </div></td><td class="field date_added"><label>date added</label><div class="value"> <span title="May 16, 2014"> May 16, 2014 </span> </div></td><td class="field owned" style="display: none"><label>owned</label><div class="value"></div></td> <td class="field format" style="display: none"><label>format</label><div class="value"> Paperback </div></td><td class="field actions"><label>actions</label><div class="value"> <div> <a class="nobreak" href="/review/show/939113569">view (with text)</a> </div> </div></td> </tr> <tr id="review_929206543" class="bookalike review"> <td class="field checkbox"><label>checkbox</label><div class="value"> </div></td> <td class="field position" style="display: none"><label>position</label><div class="value"></div></td> <td class="field cover"><label>cover</label><div class="value"> <div class="js-tooltipTrigger tooltipTrigger" data-resource-type="Book" data-resource-id="1304697"> <a href="/book/show/1304697.The_Slaves_of_Solitude"><img alt="The Slaves of Solitude" id="cover_review_929206543" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1348118963l/1304697._SY75_.jpg" /></a> </div> </div></td> <td class="field title"><label>title</label><div class="value"> <a title="The Slaves of Solitude" href="/book/show/1304697.The_Slaves_of_Solitude"> The Slaves of Solitude </a></div></td> <td class="field author"><label>author</label><div class="value"> <a href="/author/show/76819.Patrick_Hamilton">Hamilton, Patrick</a> </div></td> <td class="field isbn" style="display: none"><label>isbn</label><div class="value"> 1845294157 </div></td> <td class="field isbn13" style="display: none"><label>isbn13</label><div class="value"> 9781845294151 </div></td> <td class="field asin" style="display: none"><label>asin</label><div class="value"> 1845294157 </div></td> <td class="field num_pages" style="display: none"><label>num pages</label><div class="value"> <nobr> 327 <span class="greyText">pp</span> </nobr> </div></td> <td class="field avg_rating"><label>avg rating</label><div class="value"> 4.08 </div></td> <td class="field num_ratings" style="display: none"><label>num ratings</label><div class="value"> 2,750 </div></td> <td class="field date_pub" style="display: none"><label>date pub</label><div class="value"> 1947 </div></td> <td class="field date_pub_edition" style="display: none"><label>date pub edition</label><div class="value"> Aug 24, 2006 </div></td> <td class="field rating"><label>Jason's rating</label><div class="value"> <span class=" staticStars notranslate" title="really liked it"><span size="15x15" class="staticStar p10">really liked it</span><span size="15x15" class="staticStar p10"></span><span size="15x15" class="staticStar p10"></span><span size="15x15" class="staticStar p10"></span><span size="15x15" class="staticStar p0"></span></span> </div></td><td class="field shelves"><label>my rating</label><div class="value"> <div class="stars" data-resource-id="1304697" data-user-id="0" data-submit-url="/review/rate/1304697?stars_click=false" data-rating="0" data-restore-rating="null"><a class="star off" title="did not like it" href="#" ref="">1 of 5 stars</a><a class="star off" title="it was ok" href="#" ref="">2 of 5 stars</a><a class="star off" title="liked it" href="#" ref="">3 of 5 stars</a><a class="star off" title="really liked it" href="#" ref="">4 of 5 stars</a><a class="star off" title="it was amazing" href="#" ref="">5 of 5 stars</a></div> <span id="reviewMessage1304697_false"></span> <span id="successMessage1304697_false"></span> <div> <a class="smallText actionLinkLite" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">add to shelves</a> </div> </div></td><td class="field review" style="display: none"><label>review</label><div class="value"> <span id="freeTextContainerreview929206543">Once again I am guilty of loving a book for what are probably all the wrong reasons. The jacket description of Hamilton’s <i>The Slaves of Solitude</i> menti</span> <span id="freeTextreview929206543" style="display:none">Once again I am guilty of loving a book for what are probably all the wrong reasons. The jacket description of Hamilton’s <i>The Slaves of Solitude</i> mentions an oppression brought on by World War II, a population redistribution into the rooming houses of London’s suburbs (to escape the Blitz, among other things), and a feeling of claustrophobia that results from this migratory shift, bringing strangers from different backgrounds into close proximity but without the sense of relief that a larger city (like London) would otherwise afford its inhabitants. [There were at most one or two “public houses” in these suburban settings. If you needed to get away from your roommate for a few hours you could enter into one of these establishments but there was a good chance your roommate would end up in the same place.] The premise of <i>Slaves</i> takes its cue from this description of wartime Britain and brings us a character whose own stifling experience living in an English boarding house is one we become intimately acquainted with. Except instead of the book being <i>about</i> these English boarding houses or <i>about</i> wartime oppression in suburban London, and even while it mentions these things repeatedly, for me this book was a voyeuristic peep show into the dramatic tribulations of a single middle-aged woman over the course of a two-month period in late 1943.<br /><br />And it was fantastic.<br /><br />It is hard to articulate what it is about a book that qualifies it for me as a “page turner”—whether it’s plot pacing or humor or internal musings that somehow hits the nail right jolly square on the head, I don’t know. But this book has all of those things. It has a slow but steady build to a glorious showdown that left me shaking in empathetic rage and excitement. When Miss Roach wants to punch something (or someone), SO THE FUCK DID I! And when her stomach gets caught in her throat for injustices that she cannnot believe are happening to her, I also could feel my pulse racing, the heat of fury rising to my cheeks. The <i>gall</i> of these people with whom Miss Roach has the unfortunate luck to become associated. Who do they think they are? Their impudence, their self-righteousness, their utter impropriety. We identify with Miss Roach so deeply that we feel each of these outrages personally, acutely. That is the nature of this book that spoke to me. That, along with Roachy’s own sense of self-awareness—she is honest with herself and open to the possibilities of her own faults even while most of us would have difficulty being that way under similar circumstances. Whether the book embraces any larger, overarching context, I have no idea. Nor do I even care! And I do not mean that flippantly; I’m just saying that this book worked well enough for me on a personal level that it could have happened anytime or anywhere—the “wartime-in-Britain’s-suburban-boarding-houses” thing was just a vehicle for the magnificent drama within.</span> <a data-text-id="review929206543" href="#" onclick="swapContent($(this));; return false;">...more</a> <div class="clear"></div> </div></td><td class="field notes" style="display: none"><label>notes</label><div class="value"> <span class="greyText">Notes are private!</span> </div></td> <td class="field comments" style="display: none"><label>comments</label><div class="value"> <a href="/review/show/929206543">12</a> </div></td> <td class="field votes" style="display: none"><label>votes</label><div class="value"> <a href="/rating/voters/929206543?resource_type=Review">29</a> </div></td> <td class="field read_count" style="display: none"><label># times read</label><div class="value"> 1 </div></td><td class="field date_started" style="display: none"><label>date started</label><div class="value"> <div class="date_row"> <div class="editable_date date_started_a671532c31a84c4c89bae17fb7a9475c"> <span class="greyText">not set</span> </div> </div> </div></td><td class="field date_read"><label>date read</label><div class="value"> <div class="date_row"> <div class="editable_date date_read_a671532c31a84c4c89bae17fb7a9475c"> <span class="date_read_value">May 17, 2014</span> </div> </div> </div></td><td class="field date_added"><label>date added</label><div class="value"> <span title="May 05, 2014"> May 05, 2014 </span> </div></td><td class="field owned" style="display: none"><label>owned</label><div class="value"></div></td> <td class="field format" style="display: none"><label>format</label><div class="value"> Paperback </div></td><td class="field actions"><label>actions</label><div class="value"> <div> <a class="nobreak" href="/review/show/929206543">view (with text)</a> </div> </div></td> </tr> <tr id="review_898014142" class="bookalike review"> <td class="field checkbox"><label>checkbox</label><div class="value"> </div></td> <td class="field position" style="display: none"><label>position</label><div class="value"></div></td> <td class="field cover"><label>cover</label><div class="value"> <div class="js-tooltipTrigger tooltipTrigger" data-resource-type="Book" data-resource-id="59151"> <a href="/book/show/59151.Chess_Story"><img alt="Chess Story" id="cover_review_898014142" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1657549823l/59151._SY75_.jpg" /></a> </div> </div></td> <td class="field title"><label>title</label><div class="value"> <a title="Chess Story" href="/book/show/59151.Chess_Story"> Chess Story </a></div></td> <td class="field author"><label>author</label><div class="value"> <a href="/author/show/25573.Stefan_Zweig">Zweig, Stefan</a> </div></td> <td class="field isbn" style="display: none"><label>isbn</label><div class="value"> 1590171691 </div></td> <td class="field isbn13" style="display: none"><label>isbn13</label><div class="value"> 9781590171691 </div></td> <td class="field asin" style="display: none"><label>asin</label><div class="value"> 1590171691 </div></td> <td class="field num_pages" style="display: none"><label>num pages</label><div class="value"> <nobr> 104 <span class="greyText">pp</span> </nobr> </div></td> <td class="field avg_rating"><label>avg rating</label><div class="value"> 4.27 </div></td> <td class="field num_ratings" style="display: none"><label>num ratings</label><div class="value"> 141,470 </div></td> <td class="field date_pub" style="display: none"><label>date pub</label><div class="value"> Sep 1942 </div></td> <td class="field date_pub_edition" style="display: none"><label>date pub edition</label><div class="value"> Dec 09, 2005 </div></td> <td class="field rating"><label>Jason's rating</label><div class="value"> <span class=" staticStars notranslate" title="really liked it"><span size="15x15" class="staticStar p10">really liked it</span><span size="15x15" class="staticStar p10"></span><span size="15x15" class="staticStar p10"></span><span size="15x15" class="staticStar p10"></span><span size="15x15" class="staticStar p0"></span></span> </div></td><td class="field shelves"><label>my rating</label><div class="value"> <div class="stars" data-resource-id="59151" data-user-id="0" data-submit-url="/review/rate/59151?stars_click=false" data-rating="0" data-restore-rating="null"><a class="star off" title="did not like it" href="#" ref="">1 of 5 stars</a><a class="star off" title="it was ok" href="#" ref="">2 of 5 stars</a><a class="star off" title="liked it" href="#" ref="">3 of 5 stars</a><a class="star off" title="really liked it" href="#" ref="">4 of 5 stars</a><a class="star off" title="it was amazing" href="#" ref="">5 of 5 stars</a></div> <span id="reviewMessage59151_false"></span> <span id="successMessage59151_false"></span> <div> <a class="smallText actionLinkLite" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">add to shelves</a> </div> </div></td><td class="field review" style="display: none"><label>review</label><div class="value"> <span id="freeTextContainerreview898014142">If I didn’t have some weird neurotic rule against short stories and novellas qualifying for space on my “<a href='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUqCv_1kGzM' rel='nofollow noopener'>thrill me chill me fulfill me</a>” shelf, this bo</span> <span id="freeTextreview898014142" style="display:none">If I didn’t have some weird neurotic rule against short stories and novellas qualifying for space on my “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUqCv_1kGzM" rel="nofollow noopener">thrill me chill me fulfill me</a>” shelf, this book would have totally gotten five stars from me. It really is that good.<br /><br />Last week I saw <i>The Grand Budapest Hotel</i> and even though I was majorly disappointed, there was a blurb at the end about how the movie was based on the writings of Stefan Zweig, whom I had heard of but didn’t know a great deal about. Then someone (I forget who) told me that Wes Anderson is a fan of Zweig in general, and that many of his works have been influenced by him in some way—not just <i>Grand Budapest</i>.<br /><br />So I read <i>Chess Story</i>, because...Amazon sale! And I thought it was great. It begins with an idiot savant named Czentovic who becomes a world chess champion despite his inability to maintain a grade school–level conversation with anyone. Czentovic is on a cruise ship to Brazil for reasons I don’t remember exactly but while he’s there he makes the acquaintance of a presumed “layman” who demonstrates surprising chess skill against him. Upon further inquiry by another passenger on the ship (who also happens to be the story’s narrator), the layman reveals his background, which is both fascinating and highly disturbing. This revelation sets the stage for a glorious mental breakdown that had me riveted which if I have to remind you again that this is a story about <i>chess</i> and how can that possibly be riveting, well that just speaks to the vibrancy of Zweig’s writing.<br /><br />After having read <i>Chess Story</i>, I can’t say that I see any obvious connection to Wes Anderson’s characters, nor is any Wes Anderson plotline recognizable in it, but maybe such a connection can be found in other Zweig novels. HOW THE HELL SHOULD I KNOW? But irrespective of this, <i>Chess Story</i> is a perfect little piece of literature.</span> <a data-text-id="review898014142" href="#" onclick="swapContent($(this));; return false;">...more</a> <div class="clear"></div> </div></td><td class="field notes" style="display: none"><label>notes</label><div class="value"> <span class="greyText">Notes are private!</span> </div></td> <td class="field comments" style="display: none"><label>comments</label><div class="value"> <a href="/review/show/898014142">42</a> </div></td> <td class="field votes" style="display: none"><label>votes</label><div class="value"> <a href="/rating/voters/898014142?resource_type=Review">49</a> </div></td> <td class="field read_count" style="display: none"><label># times read</label><div class="value"> 1 </div></td><td class="field date_started" style="display: none"><label>date started</label><div class="value"> <div class="date_row"> <div class="editable_date date_started_093a59f7b5ac495980b2a674c3d33503"> <span class="greyText">not set</span> </div> </div> </div></td><td class="field date_read"><label>date read</label><div class="value"> <div class="date_row"> <div class="editable_date date_read_093a59f7b5ac495980b2a674c3d33503"> <span class="date_read_value">Apr 06, 2014</span> </div> </div> </div></td><td class="field date_added"><label>date added</label><div class="value"> <span title="April 01, 2014"> Apr 01, 2014 </span> </div></td><td class="field owned" style="display: none"><label>owned</label><div class="value"></div></td> <td class="field format" style="display: none"><label>format</label><div class="value"> Paperback </div></td><td class="field actions"><label>actions</label><div class="value"> <div> <a class="nobreak" href="/review/show/898014142">view (with text)</a> </div> </div></td> </tr> <tr id="review_896171674" class="bookalike review"> <td class="field checkbox"><label>checkbox</label><div class="value"> </div></td> <td class="field position" style="display: none"><label>position</label><div class="value"></div></td> <td class="field cover"><label>cover</label><div class="value"> <div class="js-tooltipTrigger tooltipTrigger" data-resource-type="Book" data-resource-id="5986375"> <a href="/book/show/5986375-this-is-water"><img alt="This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life" id="cover_review_896171674" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1668700884l/5986375._SX50_.jpg" /></a> </div> </div></td> <td class="field title"><label>title</label><div class="value"> <a title="This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life" href="/book/show/5986375-this-is-water"> This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life </a></div></td> <td class="field author"><label>author</label><div class="value"> <a href="/author/show/4339.David_Foster_Wallace">Wallace, David Foster</a> </div></td> <td class="field isbn" style="display: none"><label>isbn</label><div class="value"> 0316068225 </div></td> <td class="field isbn13" style="display: none"><label>isbn13</label><div class="value"> 9780316068222 </div></td> <td class="field asin" style="display: none"><label>asin</label><div class="value"> 0316068225 </div></td> <td class="field num_pages" style="display: none"><label>num pages</label><div class="value"> <nobr> 138 <span class="greyText">pp</span> </nobr> </div></td> <td class="field avg_rating"><label>avg rating</label><div class="value"> 4.48 </div></td> <td class="field num_ratings" style="display: none"><label>num ratings</label><div class="value"> 34,850 </div></td> <td class="field date_pub" style="display: none"><label>date pub</label><div class="value"> 2009 </div></td> <td class="field date_pub_edition" style="display: none"><label>date pub edition</label><div class="value"> Apr 14, 2009 </div></td> <td class="field rating"><label>Jason's rating</label><div class="value"> <span class=" staticStars notranslate" title="really liked it"><span size="15x15" class="staticStar p10">really liked it</span><span size="15x15" class="staticStar p10"></span><span size="15x15" class="staticStar p10"></span><span size="15x15" class="staticStar p10"></span><span size="15x15" class="staticStar p0"></span></span> </div></td><td class="field shelves"><label>my rating</label><div class="value"> <div class="stars" data-resource-id="5986375" data-user-id="0" data-submit-url="/review/rate/5986375?stars_click=false" data-rating="0" data-restore-rating="null"><a class="star off" title="did not like it" href="#" ref="">1 of 5 stars</a><a class="star off" title="it was ok" href="#" ref="">2 of 5 stars</a><a class="star off" title="liked it" href="#" ref="">3 of 5 stars</a><a class="star off" title="really liked it" href="#" ref="">4 of 5 stars</a><a class="star off" title="it was amazing" href="#" ref="">5 of 5 stars</a></div> <span id="reviewMessage5986375_false"></span> <span id="successMessage5986375_false"></span> <div> <a class="smallText actionLinkLite" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">add to shelves</a> </div> </div></td><td class="field review" style="display: none"><label>review</label><div class="value"> <span id="freeTextContainerreview896171674"><i>This Is Water</i> is kind of like a modern version of Rainer Maria Rilke’s <i>Letters to a Young Poet</i>. With the exception, of course, that <i>This Is Water</i> is n</span> <span id="freeTextreview896171674" style="display:none"><i>This Is Water</i> is kind of like a modern version of Rainer Maria Rilke’s <i>Letters to a Young Poet</i>. With the exception, of course, that <i>This Is Water</i> is not a collection of letters, does not discuss poetry or writing, and is not addressed to a single individual but to a college’s entire student body. Other than that, though, they’re pretty much the same thing.<br /><br />What I mean is that there’s something very <i>inspirational</i> (for lack of a better word) in these texts whose words seem to have been composed on-the-fly, were not intended for publication, and are delivered to a person (or to a group of persons) in a manner that is simple and direct, essentially conversational, but which have the unintended consequence of breaking out beyond the scope of the limited audience for which they were intended. Others discover these “gems of life” (ugh, I sound like Mitch Albom now) and they become words of wisdom for the masses.<br /><br />Spoken as the Kenyon College commencement address in 2005, <i>This Is Water</i> is about David Foster Wallace’s assertion that perspective, a necessary absolute in the life of the well-adjusted individual, is a conscious choice (albeit not always an easy one to make), and that the greatest thing we can do for ourselves as humans is to forcibly extricate ourselves from the natural thought-path of viewing every situation as inherently ABOUT MEEE!, which is natural only by the fact that we exist in a perpetual state of self-centric experience—everything that happens to us happens, of course, <i>to us</i>—but which subsequently limits our ability to be happy. I mean there’s something rather lonesome about the “me” perspective, isn’t there?<br /><br />Well, DFW’s argument here is that the ultimate goal of higher education is less about learning <i>how to think</i> than it is about learning the value of the thought process itself, realizing the importance of putting ourselves in one another’s shoes, acquiring an empathetic point-of-view, not just for the benefit of any kind of global betterment (though I suppose that could be a nice secondary effect) but for the benefit of each of us living our mundane, daily lives. Waiting in a excruciatingly slow checkout line, for example, and concluding that the “this sucks FOR ME” attitude, while understandably the default attitude most people would assume in such a circumstance, isn’t the only attitude, and is certainly not the best attitude for maintaining a happy internal disposition. Maybe the line is slow because someone is holding it up with all her coupon scanning, coupons she has been saving out of desperation to make ends meet after the loss of her husband’s job, and maybe if you knew this you’d understand that things are possibly worse off for her than they are for you, and maybe it will seem less of an annoyance that you’ll be home seven minutes later than you had planned to be.<br /><br />I mean it’s also possible the line is slow because the checkout guy is being a complete dumbfuck, but the point is that it is not going to help you by getting upset at how the situation is inconveniencing <i>you</i>. Your overall and long-term happiness depends more on scrambling out of that depressing “it’s all about me” trap which, admittedly is not always possible to do, than it does on satisfying your immediate need to get out of the checkout line as soon as possible.</span> <a data-text-id="review896171674" href="#" onclick="swapContent($(this));; return false;">...more</a> <div class="clear"></div> </div></td><td class="field notes" style="display: none"><label>notes</label><div class="value"> <span class="greyText">Notes are private!</span> </div></td> <td class="field comments" style="display: none"><label>comments</label><div class="value"> <a href="/review/show/896171674">8</a> </div></td> <td class="field votes" style="display: none"><label>votes</label><div class="value"> <a href="/rating/voters/896171674?resource_type=Review">33</a> </div></td> <td class="field read_count" style="display: none"><label># times read</label><div class="value"> 1 </div></td><td class="field date_started" style="display: none"><label>date started</label><div class="value"> <div class="date_row"> <div class="editable_date date_started_e4d5a896dc244eada100c496248c756e"> <span class="greyText">not set</span> </div> </div> </div></td><td class="field date_read"><label>date read</label><div class="value"> <div class="date_row"> <div class="editable_date date_read_e4d5a896dc244eada100c496248c756e"> <span class="date_read_value">Mar 30, 2014</span> </div> </div> </div></td><td class="field date_added"><label>date added</label><div class="value"> <span title="March 30, 2014"> Mar 30, 2014 </span> </div></td><td class="field owned" style="display: none"><label>owned</label><div class="value"></div></td> <td class="field format" style="display: none"><label>format</label><div class="value"> Hardcover </div></td><td class="field actions"><label>actions</label><div class="value"> <div> <a class="nobreak" href="/review/show/896171674">view (with text)</a> </div> </div></td> </tr> <tr id="review_892218700" class="bookalike review"> <td class="field checkbox"><label>checkbox</label><div class="value"> </div></td> <td class="field position" style="display: none"><label>position</label><div class="value"></div></td> <td class="field cover"><label>cover</label><div class="value"> <div class="js-tooltipTrigger tooltipTrigger" data-resource-type="Book" data-resource-id="18007564"> <a href="/book/show/18007564-the-martian"><img alt="The Martian" id="cover_review_892218700" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1413706054l/18007564._SY75_.jpg" /></a> </div> </div></td> <td class="field title"><label>title</label><div class="value"> <a title="The Martian" href="/book/show/18007564-the-martian"> The Martian </a></div></td> <td class="field author"><label>author</label><div class="value"> <a href="/author/show/6540057.Andy_Weir">Weir, Andy</a> <span title="Goodreads Author!">*</span> </div></td> <td class="field isbn" style="display: none"><label>isbn</label><div class="value"> 0804139024 </div></td> <td class="field isbn13" style="display: none"><label>isbn13</label><div class="value"> 9780804139021 </div></td> <td class="field asin" style="display: none"><label>asin</label><div class="value"> 0804139024 </div></td> <td class="field num_pages" style="display: none"><label>num pages</label><div class="value"> <nobr> 384 <span class="greyText">pp</span> </nobr> </div></td> <td class="field avg_rating"><label>avg rating</label><div class="value"> 4.42 </div></td> <td class="field num_ratings" style="display: none"><label>num ratings</label><div class="value"> 1,174,687 </div></td> <td class="field date_pub" style="display: none"><label>date pub</label><div class="value"> Sep 27, 2011 </div></td> <td class="field date_pub_edition" style="display: none"><label>date pub edition</label><div class="value"> Feb 11, 2014 </div></td> <td class="field rating"><label>Jason's rating</label><div class="value"> <span class=" staticStars notranslate" title="really liked it"><span size="15x15" class="staticStar p10">really liked it</span><span size="15x15" class="staticStar p10"></span><span size="15x15" class="staticStar p10"></span><span size="15x15" class="staticStar p10"></span><span size="15x15" class="staticStar p0"></span></span> </div></td><td class="field shelves"><label>my rating</label><div class="value"> <div class="stars" data-resource-id="18007564" data-user-id="0" data-submit-url="/review/rate/18007564?stars_click=false" data-rating="0" data-restore-rating="null"><a class="star off" title="did not like it" href="#" ref="">1 of 5 stars</a><a class="star off" title="it was ok" href="#" ref="">2 of 5 stars</a><a class="star off" title="liked it" href="#" ref="">3 of 5 stars</a><a class="star off" title="really liked it" href="#" ref="">4 of 5 stars</a><a class="star off" title="it was amazing" href="#" ref="">5 of 5 stars</a></div> <span id="reviewMessage18007564_false"></span> <span id="successMessage18007564_false"></span> <div> <a class="smallText actionLinkLite" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">add to shelves</a> </div> </div></td><td class="field review" style="display: none"><label>review</label><div class="value"> <span id="freeTextContainerreview892218700">It is just a coincidence that the last three books I’ve read in a row have been about space travel. I am not a space nerd! And yet maybe I am becoming</span> <span id="freeTextreview892218700" style="display:none">It is just a coincidence that the last three books I’ve read in a row have been about space travel. I am not a space nerd! And yet maybe I am becoming one because after reading this book I want as much of this centripetal gravity, atmospheric pressure regulating bullshit as I can get.<br /><br />Weir’s book is about a Mars reconnaissance mission gone wrong, a mission for which a two-month visit could turn into two years for crewmember Mark Watney. Watney is inadvertently abandoned by his team during a dust storm that forces them to abort their mission early. Survival skills come into play here, as well as science and engineering—MacGyver on Mars! And the science is great. It is a reminder that there is more to it than undatable dudes in orthodontic headgear blowing shit up in erlenmeyer flasks (though it certainly <i>can</i> be that if that’s your thing). There is a logistical nature to the science that just warms my cockles: how to recreate a growing environment for crop sustainability, how to manipulate atmospheric gases for water reclamation. AND MUCH, MUCH MORE.<br /><br />Andy Weir is a scientist. Actually I don’t know what he does, nor do I know a single thing about him, but he has to be. It is impossible for someone to have written this book and not be a scientist. The only thing I know about him is that he self-published this book two years ago and on account of some great success he had on Amazon, his book was picked up earlier this year by a subsidiary of Random House, the biggest publisher on Earth. So that’s cool.<br /><br />And it’s also understandable. This book combines all of the technical details needed to explain Watney’s attempts to survive on Mars until rescue with the kind of humor that somehow grounds it all, allowing us to relate to Watney—irrespective of our never having had to fight for our lives on an abandoned planet—with a huggable sense of humanity. Because yes, I often <i>did</i> want to hug Watney. At one point, after NASA tells him he can begin drilling (in an attempt to modify a rover for long-range transport), he replies: “That’s what she said.” Seriously, who says something like that to NASA? You can picture them all back at Ground Control tapping their pens against their orthodontic headgear in nervousness, completely at a loss as to how to respond. If I am ever facing a situation I have little chance of surviving, I hope that I too would have enough perspective to whip out an LGM joke here and there. Because why not?<br /><br />I learned recently that Ridley Scott of <i>Blade Runner</i> fame will be directing a movie adaptation of this book starring Matt Damon, scheduled for release next year. This is a good thing because if done right, a film of <i>The Martian</i> could very well be out of this world.<br /><br />(Sorry.)</span> <a data-text-id="review892218700" href="#" onclick="swapContent($(this));; return false;">...more</a> <div class="clear"></div> </div></td><td class="field notes" style="display: none"><label>notes</label><div class="value"> <span class="greyText">Notes are private!</span> </div></td> <td class="field comments" style="display: none"><label>comments</label><div class="value"> <a href="/review/show/892218700">21</a> </div></td> <td class="field votes" style="display: none"><label>votes</label><div class="value"> <a href="/rating/voters/892218700?resource_type=Review">43</a> </div></td> <td class="field read_count" style="display: none"><label># times read</label><div class="value"> 1 </div></td><td class="field date_started" style="display: none"><label>date started</label><div class="value"> <div class="date_row"> <div class="editable_date 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class="field position" style="display: none"><label>position</label><div class="value"></div></td> <td class="field cover"><label>cover</label><div class="value"> <div class="js-tooltipTrigger tooltipTrigger" data-resource-type="Book" data-resource-id="18003300"> <a href="/book/show/18003300-love-misadventure"><img alt="Love & Misadventure" id="cover_review_875744538" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1370084153l/18003300._SX50_.jpg" /></a> </div> </div></td> <td class="field title"><label>title</label><div class="value"> <a title="Love & Misadventure" href="/book/show/18003300-love-misadventure"> Love & Misadventure </a></div></td> <td class="field author"><label>author</label><div class="value"> <a href="/author/show/7012565.Lang_Leav">Leav, Lang</a> <span title="Goodreads Author!">*</span> </div></td> <td class="field isbn" style="display: none"><label>isbn</label><div class="value"> 0473235501 </div></td> <td class="field isbn13" style="display: none"><label>isbn13</label><div class="value"> 9780473235505 </div></td> <td class="field asin" style="display: none"><label>asin</label><div class="value"> 0473235501 </div></td> <td class="field num_pages" style="display: none"><label>num pages</label><div class="value"> <nobr> 176 <span class="greyText">pp</span> </nobr> </div></td> <td class="field avg_rating"><label>avg rating</label><div class="value"> 3.94 </div></td> <td class="field num_ratings" style="display: none"><label>num ratings</label><div class="value"> 57,048 </div></td> <td class="field date_pub" style="display: none"><label>date pub</label><div class="value"> Apr 26, 2013 </div></td> <td class="field date_pub_edition" style="display: none"><label>date pub edition</label><div class="value"> Apr 26, 2013 </div></td> <td class="field rating"><label>Jason's rating</label><div class="value"> <span class=" staticStars notranslate" title="did not like it"><span size="15x15" class="staticStar p10">did not like it</span><span size="15x15" class="staticStar p0"></span><span size="15x15" class="staticStar p0"></span><span size="15x15" class="staticStar p0"></span><span size="15x15" class="staticStar p0"></span></span> </div></td><td class="field shelves"><label>my rating</label><div class="value"> <div class="stars" data-resource-id="18003300" data-user-id="0" data-submit-url="/review/rate/18003300?stars_click=false" data-rating="0" data-restore-rating="null"><a class="star off" title="did not like it" href="#" ref="">1 of 5 stars</a><a class="star off" title="it was ok" href="#" ref="">2 of 5 stars</a><a class="star off" title="liked it" href="#" ref="">3 of 5 stars</a><a class="star off" title="really liked it" href="#" ref="">4 of 5 stars</a><a class="star off" title="it was amazing" href="#" ref="">5 of 5 stars</a></div> <span id="reviewMessage18003300_false"></span> <span id="successMessage18003300_false"></span> <div> <a class="smallText actionLinkLite" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">add to shelves</a> </div> </div></td><td class="field review" style="display: none"><label>review</label><div class="value"> <span id="freeTextContainerreview875744538">I don’t normally review books of poetry because, if I’m going to be honest, poetry has never been something I’ve traditionally gotten very excited abo</span> <span id="freeTextreview875744538" style="display:none">I don’t normally review books of poetry because, if I’m going to be honest, poetry has never been something I’ve traditionally gotten very excited about. However, that doesn’t mean that I haven’t bumped into poems here or there that have affected me somehow, and it is usually (which is the thing about poetry, I think) not <i>what the poem is about</i> per se so much as it is about how it makes you feel. Which then circles back to my point about not being overwhelmed by it in general because that part of me that is supposed to be susceptible to the <i>feeeeeeling</i> of poetry is, clinically speaking, 90% necrotic.<br /><br />But as I said there are exceptions. One of my favorite poems, for example, is T. S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” which even to this day I quote sections of to myself from time to time because it really is just that awesome. Of course, admitting that may out me as a mere commoner—“Prufrock” is a highly popular poem, after all. So next I’ll mention a more obscure poem, something I read once in high school and I loved it so much (for whatever reason) that I memorized it, which maybe isn’t that big of a deal because it’s a short poem, but it was a big deal to me because, remember? Necrosis.<br /><blockquote><i>The threefold terror of love; a fallen flare<br />Through the hollow of an ear;<br />Wings beating about the room;<br />The terror of all terrors that I bore<br />The Heavens in my womb.<br />Had I not found content among the shows<br />Every common woman knows,<br />Chimney corner, garden walk,<br />Or rocky cistern where we tread the clothes<br />And gather all the talk?<br />What is this flesh I purchased with my pains,<br />This fallen star my milk sustains,<br />This love that makes my heart's blood stop<br />Or strikes a Sudden chill into my bones<br />And bids my hair stand up?</i><br /> —W. B. Yeats, “The Mother of God”<br /></blockquote>I actually read a lot of Yeats poetry during that time of my life and I even went to check out his grave in Sligo when I lived in Ireland, which I realize sounds rather morbid but I swear it’s a thing and people really do it.<br /><br />Sorry for that long intro, but the reason I’m writing this review is because <i>Love & Misadventure</i>, a book of poetry by someone named Lang Leav, has been popping up on my feed a lot lately. It is one of the highest user-rated books of poetry on all of Goodreads, right up there alongside Emily Dickinson and William Shakespeare (whose poems I’ve also enjoyed, by the way) and so I thought maybe I should check it out.<br /><br />I played it smart, though, by searching online for her material which, thank god I did because I would have been massively irritated if I had wasted $7.69 on this crap (the price of a Kindle edition), let alone on one of the first-edition signed copies which are going for over $300 on Amazon.<br /><br />So here’s some Lang Leav for ya...decide for yourself if you think I’m being unfair:<br /><blockquote><i>There is a love I reminisce,<br /> like a seed<br /> I’ve never sown.<br />Of lips that I am yet to kiss,<br /> and eyes not met<br /> my own.<br />Hands that wrap around my wrists,<br /> and arms<br /> that feel like home.<br />I wonder how it is I miss<br /> these things<br /> I’ve never known.</i><br /> —Lang Leav, “A Stranger”<br /></blockquote>Ack! But oh good lord there’s more:<br /><blockquote><i>Before I fell<br /> in love with words;<br /> with setting skies<br /> and singing birds—<br /> it was you I fell<br /> in love with first.</i><br /> —Lang Leav, “First Love”<br /></blockquote>If I wasn’t necrotic before, somebody please begin the amputation before I so septic on your asses. Here’s another:<br /><blockquote><i>There was a time I told you,<br /> of all that ached inside;<br /> the things I held so sacred,<br /> to all the world I’d hide.<br />But they became your weapons,<br /> and slowly I have learnt,<br /> the less that is said the better,<br /> the lesser I’ll be hurt.<br />Of all you’ve used against me,<br /> the worse has been my words.<br />There are things I’ll never tell you,<br /> and it is sad to think it so;<br /> the more you come to know me—<br /> the lesser you will know.</i><br /> —Lang Leav, “Poker Face”<br /></blockquote>I feel like she spends more time working on her margins and tabs than she does on the poetry. Didn’t Lady Gaga do a way better job with this material?<br /><br />So then I was wondering how something that to me seems so transparently saccharine could be so highly regarded. And that is when I came across this:<br /><br />[image]<br />[image]<br /><br />That is a screenshot of Lang Leav’s personal tumblr blog, and if you have trouble reading the text there, this is what it says: “Competition time! <b>WIN a Kindle</b> and <b>First Edition hand signed copy of Love & Misadventure!</b> To enter, simply click a like on <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/819753305" rel="nofollow noopener">this lovely Goodreads review by Lara</a> ♥ Winner will be drawn randomly from the list of likes and announced this Wednesday. <b>So hurry and get liking. :)</b>”<br /><br />Wow. So not only do we have a woman who struggles to write decent poetry but she actually has to fiscally reward readers for promoting her work which, while perhaps not being an illegal practice, certainly raises ethical concerns given the nature of a website whose ratings system is supposed to be based on the opinion of actual, unbiased readers. Given these alarming shenanigans, in addition to the quality of the writing itself, I’d steer clear of this one.</span> <a data-text-id="review875744538" href="#" onclick="swapContent($(this));; return false;">...more</a> <div class="clear"></div> </div></td><td class="field notes" style="display: none"><label>notes</label><div class="value"> <span class="greyText">Notes are private!</span> </div></td> <td class="field comments" style="display: none"><label>comments</label><div class="value"> <a href="/review/show/875744538">19</a> </div></td> <td class="field votes" style="display: none"><label>votes</label><div class="value"> <a href="/rating/voters/875744538?resource_type=Review">70</a> </div></td> <td class="field read_count" style="display: none"><label># times read</label><div class="value"> 1 </div></td><td class="field date_started" style="display: none"><label>date started</label><div class="value"> <div class="date_row"> <div class="editable_date 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class="field position" style="display: none"><label>position</label><div class="value"></div></td> <td class="field cover"><label>cover</label><div class="value"> <div class="js-tooltipTrigger tooltipTrigger" data-resource-type="Book" data-resource-id="17571564"> <a href="/book/show/17571564-hyperbole-and-a-half"><img alt="Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened" id="cover_review_872153480" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1409522492l/17571564._SY75_.jpg" /></a> </div> </div></td> <td class="field title"><label>title</label><div class="value"> <a title="Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened" href="/book/show/17571564-hyperbole-and-a-half"> Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened </a></div></td> <td class="field author"><label>author</label><div class="value"> <a href="/author/show/6984726.Allie_Brosh">Brosh, Allie</a> <span title="Goodreads Author!">*</span> </div></td> <td class="field isbn" style="display: none"><label>isbn</label><div class="value"> 1451666179 </div></td> <td class="field isbn13" style="display: none"><label>isbn13</label><div class="value"> 9781451666175 </div></td> <td class="field asin" style="display: none"><label>asin</label><div class="value"> 1451666179 </div></td> <td class="field num_pages" style="display: none"><label>num pages</label><div class="value"> <nobr> 371 <span class="greyText">pp</span> </nobr> </div></td> <td class="field avg_rating"><label>avg rating</label><div class="value"> 4.17 </div></td> <td class="field num_ratings" style="display: none"><label>num ratings</label><div class="value"> 210,538 </div></td> <td class="field date_pub" style="display: none"><label>date pub</label><div class="value"> Oct 29, 2013 </div></td> <td class="field date_pub_edition" style="display: none"><label>date pub edition</label><div class="value"> Oct 29, 2013 </div></td> <td class="field rating"><label>Jason's rating</label><div class="value"> <span class=" staticStars notranslate" title="really liked it"><span size="15x15" class="staticStar p10">really liked it</span><span size="15x15" class="staticStar p10"></span><span size="15x15" class="staticStar p10"></span><span size="15x15" class="staticStar p10"></span><span size="15x15" class="staticStar p0"></span></span> </div></td><td class="field shelves"><label>my rating</label><div class="value"> <div class="stars" data-resource-id="17571564" data-user-id="0" data-submit-url="/review/rate/17571564?stars_click=false" data-rating="0" data-restore-rating="null"><a class="star off" title="did not like it" href="#" ref="">1 of 5 stars</a><a class="star off" title="it was ok" href="#" ref="">2 of 5 stars</a><a class="star off" title="liked it" href="#" ref="">3 of 5 stars</a><a class="star off" title="really liked it" href="#" ref="">4 of 5 stars</a><a class="star off" title="it was amazing" href="#" ref="">5 of 5 stars</a></div> <span id="reviewMessage17571564_false"></span> <span id="successMessage17571564_false"></span> <div> <a class="smallText actionLinkLite" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">add to shelves</a> </div> </div></td><td class="field review" style="display: none"><label>review</label><div class="value"> <span id="freeTextContainerreview872153480">I tend to stay away from humoristic memoirs because some of the ones I’ve read in the past have let me down. A lot of them rely too heavily on shock v</span> <span id="freeTextreview872153480" style="display:none">I tend to stay away from humoristic memoirs because some of the ones I’ve read in the past have let me down. A lot of them rely too heavily on shock value as their primary source for humor and that’s a strategy that wears thin rather quickly. This book is different. In fact this book is actually kind of phenomenal.<br /><br />Put together by an artist who has made a career out of blog postings containing crude graphical representations of her life, this book sources its laughs from a magnifying-glass perspective of her own deadpan reality. A true comedian doesn’t need shock value, because she knows that mundane daily life is filled with comedic potential and she conjures it all up with (somehow) a masterful sense of timing. Her observations are spot on so even while you’re laughing—which I did many times, in the cafeteria, at the gym, at home, in waiting rooms—you’re also realizing how <i>real</i> it is, how accurately it tackles our shortfalls and insecurities, our selfishness, our sadness, our unexplainable attachment to our pets. It isn’t even just <i>one thing</i>; it’s the whole package—the writing as well as the drawings. The drawings themselves are purposefully simple yet brilliant in their depiction of emotion, and the narrative often reaches some surprising depth. One of my favorite sketches is one in which the author describes how pitifully dumb her dog is, and yet she couples this narrative to a series of drawings that show how lovingly she considers him. Another sketch details her descent into and subsequent recovery from episodes of severe depression and it is an amazing thing to be treated to such remarkable insight alongside a healthy dose of wild laughter.<br /><br />All in all, I think you’ll find that this book is a real winner.<br /><br /><a href="http://i1276.photobucket.com/albums/y472/ancatdubh2/DEPRESSIONTWO82_zps211400ed.png" title="click to enlarge" rel="nofollow noopener"> [image] </a></span> <a data-text-id="review872153480" href="#" onclick="swapContent($(this));; return false;">...more</a> <div class="clear"></div> </div></td><td class="field notes" style="display: none"><label>notes</label><div class="value"> <span class="greyText">Notes are private!</span> </div></td> <td class="field comments" style="display: none"><label>comments</label><div class="value"> <a href="/review/show/872153480">13</a> </div></td> <td class="field votes" style="display: none"><label>votes</label><div class="value"> <a href="/rating/voters/872153480?resource_type=Review">69</a> </div></td> <td class="field read_count" style="display: none"><label># times read</label><div class="value"> 1 </div></td><td class="field date_started" style="display: none"><label>date started</label><div class="value"> <div class="date_row"> <div class="editable_date date_started_da9004808f6143be80c4d119cd642d55"> <span class="greyText">not set</span> </div> </div> </div></td><td class="field date_read"><label>date read</label><div class="value"> <div class="date_row"> <div class="editable_date date_read_da9004808f6143be80c4d119cd642d55"> <span class="date_read_value">Apr 25, 2014</span> </div> </div> </div></td><td class="field date_added"><label>date added</label><div class="value"> <span title="March 04, 2014"> Mar 04, 2014 </span> </div></td><td class="field owned" style="display: none"><label>owned</label><div class="value"></div></td> <td class="field format" style="display: none"><label>format</label><div class="value"> Paperback </div></td><td class="field actions"><label>actions</label><div class="value"> <div> <a class="nobreak" href="/review/show/872153480">view (with text)</a> </div> </div></td> </tr> <tr id="review_845853395" class="bookalike review"> <td class="field checkbox"><label>checkbox</label><div class="value"> </div></td> <td class="field position" style="display: none"><label>position</label><div class="value"></div></td> <td class="field cover"><label>cover</label><div class="value"> <div class="js-tooltipTrigger tooltipTrigger" data-resource-type="Book" data-resource-id="17086102"> <a href="/book/show/17086102-bobcat-and-other-stories"><img alt="Bobcat and Other Stories" id="cover_review_845853395" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1404579146l/17086102._SX50_.jpg" /></a> </div> </div></td> <td class="field title"><label>title</label><div class="value"> <a title="Bobcat and Other Stories" href="/book/show/17086102-bobcat-and-other-stories"> Bobcat and Other Stories </a></div></td> <td class="field author"><label>author</label><div class="value"> <a href="/author/show/10686848.Rebecca_Lee">Lee, Rebecca</a> </div></td> <td class="field isbn" style="display: none"><label>isbn</label><div class="value"> 1616201738 </div></td> <td class="field isbn13" style="display: none"><label>isbn13</label><div class="value"> 9781616201739 </div></td> <td class="field asin" style="display: none"><label>asin</label><div class="value"> 1616201738 </div></td> <td class="field num_pages" style="display: none"><label>num pages</label><div class="value"> <nobr> 209 <span class="greyText">pp</span> </nobr> </div></td> <td class="field avg_rating"><label>avg rating</label><div class="value"> 3.89 </div></td> <td class="field num_ratings" style="display: none"><label>num ratings</label><div class="value"> 4,834 </div></td> <td class="field date_pub" style="display: none"><label>date pub</label><div class="value"> 2010 </div></td> <td class="field date_pub_edition" style="display: none"><label>date pub edition</label><div class="value"> Jun 11, 2013 </div></td> <td class="field rating"><label>Jason's rating</label><div class="value"> <span class=" staticStars notranslate" title="really liked it"><span size="15x15" class="staticStar p10">really liked it</span><span size="15x15" class="staticStar p10"></span><span size="15x15" class="staticStar p10"></span><span size="15x15" class="staticStar p10"></span><span size="15x15" class="staticStar p0"></span></span> </div></td><td class="field shelves"><label>my rating</label><div class="value"> <div class="stars" data-resource-id="17086102" data-user-id="0" data-submit-url="/review/rate/17086102?stars_click=false" data-rating="0" data-restore-rating="null"><a class="star off" title="did not like it" href="#" ref="">1 of 5 stars</a><a class="star off" title="it was ok" href="#" ref="">2 of 5 stars</a><a class="star off" title="liked it" href="#" ref="">3 of 5 stars</a><a class="star off" title="really liked it" href="#" ref="">4 of 5 stars</a><a class="star off" title="it was amazing" href="#" ref="">5 of 5 stars</a></div> <span id="reviewMessage17086102_false"></span> <span id="successMessage17086102_false"></span> <div> <a class="smallText actionLinkLite" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">add to shelves</a> </div> </div></td><td class="field review" style="display: none"><label>review</label><div class="value"> <span id="freeTextContainerreview845853395">I liked this book so much it pissed me off. Rebecca Lee is a fantastic writer, her talent seeping through these pages like grease through a bag of Chi</span> <span id="freeTextreview845853395" style="display:none">I liked this book so much it pissed me off. Rebecca Lee is a fantastic writer, her talent seeping through these pages like grease through a bag of Chinese takeout. Her stories are perfectly paced, perfectly structured. Every story pulls you into it quickly, effortlessly, <i>strongly</i>. Descriptors are succinct yet commanding, characters pop with dimension, internal dialogue is authentically human—she nails it all. Long story short, this book is a grand slam.<br /><br />Except it still pissed me off. This is the thing about short stories, especially ones as well-written as this. You get to the end and you’re all, “Fuck NO!! I can’t believe it ends here!” Grossly unsatisfying. You want more, you <i>need</i> more. There’s so much potential in these stories, in these characters, and all you get are teases—perfectly constructed teases, but still teases nonetheless.<br /><br />Rebecca Lee why you gotta be such a tease?</span> <a data-text-id="review845853395" href="#" onclick="swapContent($(this));; return false;">...more</a> <div class="clear"></div> </div></td><td class="field notes" style="display: none"><label>notes</label><div class="value"> <span class="greyText">Notes are private!</span> </div></td> <td class="field comments" style="display: none"><label>comments</label><div class="value"> <a href="/review/show/845853395">17</a> </div></td> <td class="field votes" style="display: none"><label>votes</label><div class="value"> <a href="/rating/voters/845853395?resource_type=Review">55</a> </div></td> <td class="field read_count" style="display: none"><label># times read</label><div class="value"> 1 </div></td><td class="field date_started" style="display: none"><label>date started</label><div 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checkbox"><label>checkbox</label><div class="value"> </div></td> <td class="field position" style="display: none"><label>position</label><div class="value"></div></td> <td class="field cover"><label>cover</label><div class="value"> <div class="js-tooltipTrigger tooltipTrigger" data-resource-type="Book" data-resource-id="6653318"> <a href="/book/show/6653318-dixie-noir"><img alt="Dixie Noir" id="cover_review_832169224" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1390491144l/6653318._SY75_.jpg" /></a> </div> </div></td> <td class="field title"><label>title</label><div class="value"> <a title="Dixie Noir" href="/book/show/6653318-dixie-noir"> Dixie Noir </a></div></td> <td class="field author"><label>author</label><div class="value"> <a href="/author/show/69610.Kirk_Curnutt">Curnutt, Kirk</a> <span title="Goodreads Author!">*</span> </div></td> <td class="field isbn" style="display: none"><label>isbn</label><div class="value"> 159414821X </div></td> <td class="field isbn13" style="display: none"><label>isbn13</label><div class="value"> 9781594148217 </div></td> <td class="field asin" style="display: none"><label>asin</label><div class="value"> 159414821X </div></td> <td class="field num_pages" style="display: none"><label>num pages</label><div class="value"> <nobr> 291 <span class="greyText">pp</span> </nobr> </div></td> <td class="field avg_rating"><label>avg rating</label><div class="value"> 3.95 </div></td> <td class="field num_ratings" style="display: none"><label>num ratings</label><div class="value"> 55 </div></td> <td class="field date_pub" style="display: none"><label>date pub</label><div class="value"> Nov 2009 </div></td> <td class="field date_pub_edition" style="display: none"><label>date pub edition</label><div class="value"> Jan 01, 2009 </div></td> <td class="field rating"><label>Jason's rating</label><div class="value"> <span class=" staticStars notranslate" title="really liked it"><span size="15x15" class="staticStar p10">really liked it</span><span size="15x15" class="staticStar p10"></span><span size="15x15" class="staticStar p10"></span><span size="15x15" class="staticStar p10"></span><span size="15x15" class="staticStar p0"></span></span> </div></td><td class="field shelves"><label>my rating</label><div class="value"> <div class="stars" data-resource-id="6653318" data-user-id="0" data-submit-url="/review/rate/6653318?stars_click=false" data-rating="0" data-restore-rating="null"><a class="star off" title="did not like it" href="#" ref="">1 of 5 stars</a><a class="star off" title="it was ok" href="#" ref="">2 of 5 stars</a><a class="star off" title="liked it" href="#" ref="">3 of 5 stars</a><a class="star off" title="really liked it" href="#" ref="">4 of 5 stars</a><a class="star off" title="it was amazing" href="#" ref="">5 of 5 stars</a></div> <span id="reviewMessage6653318_false"></span> <span id="successMessage6653318_false"></span> <div> <a class="smallText actionLinkLite" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">add to shelves</a> </div> </div></td><td class="field review" style="display: none"><label>review</label><div class="value"> <span id="freeTextContainerreview832169224">I’m not generally in the habit of reading books written by people I’m friendly with, because then I’m always afraid the book is going to suck and I’ll</span> <span id="freeTextreview832169224" style="display:none">I’m not generally in the habit of reading books written by people I’m friendly with, because then I’m always afraid the book is going to suck and I’ll be forced to either lie to the friend about what I think of his book, or worse, tell him the truth and then feel horribly guilty about it afterwards. And plus, if the book is going to suck (which it invariably will if one of my dumb friends wrote it), then there’s also the added issue of me spending my time reading something I doubt I’ll even like. I mean, it isn’t as though I have all the free time in the world, right? Can’t I at least spend that time reading books that I think will be interesting?<br /><br />Well, a few months ago Curnutt wrote a short biographical fiction piece called “I, Jozan” for <i>Map Literary</i>, a contemporary writing journal published by William Paterson University. It’s about—and if you know Kirk you won’t be remotely surprised—F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald. (He’s sort of a Fitzgerald junkie, to put it mildly.) (To put it non-mildly, he’s vice president of the <a href="http://www.fscottfitzgeraldsociety.org/" rel="nofollow noopener">F. Scott Fitzgerald Society</a>.) (Yeah, I know, seriously.) Anyway, the story caught my attention, not just for its subject matter, which has to do with an affair Zelda allegedly has with a French pilot named Edouard Jozan during her marriage to Fitzgerald, but also for its writing quality. I was delighted! Curnutt struck a remarkable balance, painting Fitzgerald in somewhat of a negative light (for the purpose of the story) while still allowing the awe he has for the Fitzgerald family to shine through. <a href="http://www.mapliterary.org/kirk-curnutt-i-jozan.html" rel="nofollow noopener">Here’s the story</a>, by the way, in case you want to read it.<br /><br />And that’s when I decided to take a chance with one of the guy’s novels. I picked <i>Dixie Noir</i>, probably because it was on sale and I’m a total cheapskate, and do you know what I discovered? This book is great! It is essentially a Southern crime novel and though it does start off with a bit of a hardboiled edge, it finds its groove as more of a crime thriller, I think, in the form of someone like <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/125736.Tom_Franklin" title="Tom Franklin" rel="nofollow noopener">Tom Franklin</a>. But I say “essentially,” because it also has some literary elements and, of course, an intertextual tribute to Zelda Fitzgerald’s own writings. (I’m not even kidding. This guy needs, like, serious help.) Curnutt, a Montgomery resident, bases his story there and, just as he does with Scotty Fitz in “I, Jozan,” effectively unites the flaws he sees in his city with a competing amount of admiration that he can’t help but have for it, as well.<blockquote><i>“I love this city. I believe that Montgomery’s contribution to America lies in its complexity, the fact that this is the birthplace of both the Civil War and of Civil Rights. Everybody wants to resolve the opposing forces that those two things represent, but they can’t be resolved, and they </i>shouldn’t<i> be, because they’re the yin and yang of America.”</i><br /></blockquote>I drove through Montgomery once, about twelve years ago, and while the particulars of it escape me, I recall feeling as though I were passing through the epitomical center of the nation’s Deep South. Which I suppose in a way I <i>was</i>. And now that I’ve read this book, I wonder if I might not have a better appreciation for a city that is home to such a dizzying array of American history, dizzying not just by the volume of its history but by the sometimes dualistic nature of it.</span> <a data-text-id="review832169224" href="#" onclick="swapContent($(this));; return false;">...more</a> <div class="clear"></div> </div></td><td class="field notes" style="display: none"><label>notes</label><div class="value"> <span class="greyText">Notes are private!</span> </div></td> <td class="field comments" style="display: none"><label>comments</label><div class="value"> <a href="/review/show/832169224">14</a> </div></td> <td class="field votes" style="display: none"><label>votes</label><div class="value"> <a href="/rating/voters/832169224?resource_type=Review">35</a> </div></td> <td class="field read_count" style="display: none"><label># times read</label><div class="value"> 1 </div></td><td class="field date_started" style="display: none"><label>date started</label><div class="value"> <div class="date_row"> <div class="editable_date date_started_53d3d33a6f134622b0ffb0efed0bf28a"> <span class="greyText">not set</span> </div> </div> </div></td><td class="field date_read"><label>date read</label><div class="value"> <div class="date_row"> <div class="editable_date date_read_53d3d33a6f134622b0ffb0efed0bf28a"> <span class="date_read_value">Mar 04, 2014</span> </div> </div> </div></td><td class="field date_added"><label>date added</label><div class="value"> <span title="January 23, 2014"> Jan 23, 2014 </span> </div></td><td class="field owned" style="display: none"><label>owned</label><div class="value"></div></td> <td class="field format" style="display: none"><label>format</label><div class="value"> Hardcover </div></td><td class="field actions"><label>actions</label><div class="value"> <div> <a class="nobreak" href="/review/show/832169224">view (with text)</a> </div> </div></td> </tr> <tr id="review_824661063" class="bookalike review"> <td class="field checkbox"><label>checkbox</label><div class="value"> </div></td> <td class="field position" style="display: none"><label>position</label><div class="value"></div></td> <td class="field cover"><label>cover</label><div class="value"> <div class="js-tooltipTrigger tooltipTrigger" data-resource-type="Book" data-resource-id="322351"> <a href="/book/show/322351.How_to_Eat_Fried_Worms"><img alt="How to Eat Fried Worms" id="cover_review_824661063" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1320519921l/322351._SX50_.jpg" /></a> </div> </div></td> <td class="field title"><label>title</label><div class="value"> <a title="How to Eat Fried Worms" href="/book/show/322351.How_to_Eat_Fried_Worms"> How to Eat Fried Worms </a></div></td> <td class="field author"><label>author</label><div class="value"> <a href="/author/show/140329.Thomas_Rockwell">Rockwell, Thomas</a> </div></td> <td class="field isbn" style="display: none"><label>isbn</label><div class="value"> 0440421853 </div></td> <td class="field isbn13" style="display: none"><label>isbn13</label><div class="value"> 9780440421856 </div></td> <td class="field asin" style="display: none"><label>asin</label><div class="value"> 0440421853 </div></td> <td class="field num_pages" style="display: none"><label>num pages</label><div class="value"> <nobr> 118 <span class="greyText">pp</span> </nobr> </div></td> <td class="field avg_rating"><label>avg rating</label><div class="value"> 3.76 </div></td> <td class="field num_ratings" style="display: none"><label>num ratings</label><div class="value"> 48,004 </div></td> <td class="field date_pub" style="display: none"><label>date pub</label><div class="value"> 1973 </div></td> <td class="field date_pub_edition" style="display: none"><label>date pub edition</label><div class="value"> Jul 2006 </div></td> <td class="field rating"><label>Jason's rating</label><div class="value"> <span class=" staticStars notranslate" title="liked it"><span size="15x15" class="staticStar p10">liked it</span><span size="15x15" class="staticStar p10"></span><span size="15x15" class="staticStar p10"></span><span size="15x15" class="staticStar p0"></span><span size="15x15" class="staticStar p0"></span></span> </div></td><td class="field shelves"><label>my rating</label><div class="value"> <div class="stars" data-resource-id="322351" data-user-id="0" data-submit-url="/review/rate/322351?stars_click=false" data-rating="0" data-restore-rating="null"><a class="star off" title="did not like it" href="#" ref="">1 of 5 stars</a><a class="star off" title="it was ok" href="#" ref="">2 of 5 stars</a><a class="star off" title="liked it" href="#" ref="">3 of 5 stars</a><a class="star off" title="really liked it" href="#" ref="">4 of 5 stars</a><a class="star off" title="it was amazing" href="#" ref="">5 of 5 stars</a></div> <span id="reviewMessage322351_false"></span> <span id="successMessage322351_false"></span> <div> <a class="smallText actionLinkLite" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">add to shelves</a> </div> </div></td><td class="field review" style="display: none"><label>review</label><div class="value"> <span id="freeTextContainerreview824661063">“You’re a bastard!”<br/><br/>That’s what one school-aged child says to another somewhere in this book. I read it in the third grade and I remember very clearly </span> <span id="freeTextreview824661063" style="display:none">“You’re a bastard!”<br /><br />That’s what one school-aged child says to another somewhere in this book. I read it in the third grade and I remember very clearly talking to Kevin Petrasek about it, Kevin telling me it was a swear word and me not believing him (I had never heard this word before in my life). So of course I asked Miss Lisak and she decided we should discuss it further in detention.<br /><br />So anyway, my kid picked up this book at the library today. On <i>my</i> recommendation. I understand they changed later versions of this sentence to “You’re a fink!” which is totally fucking ridiculous. I just hope he enjoys it every bit as much as I did.</span> <a data-text-id="review824661063" href="#" onclick="swapContent($(this));; return false;">...more</a> <div class="clear"></div> </div></td><td class="field notes" style="display: none"><label>notes</label><div class="value"> <span class="greyText">Notes are private!</span> </div></td> <td class="field comments" style="display: none"><label>comments</label><div class="value"> <a href="/review/show/824661063">36</a> </div></td> <td class="field votes" style="display: none"><label>votes</label><div class="value"> <a href="/rating/voters/824661063?resource_type=Review">76</a> </div></td> <td class="field read_count" style="display: none"><label># times read</label><div class="value"> 1 </div></td><td class="field date_started" style="display: none"><label>date started</label><div class="value"> <div class="date_row"> <div class="editable_date date_started_0452a47c918240a285891aa560149ff6"> <span class="greyText">not set</span> </div> </div> </div></td><td class="field date_read"><label>date read</label><div class="value"> <div class="date_row"> <div class="editable_date date_read_0452a47c918240a285891aa560149ff6"> <span class="greyText">not set</span> </div> </div> </div></td><td class="field date_added"><label>date added</label><div class="value"> <span title="January 15, 2014"> Jan 15, 2014 </span> </div></td><td class="field owned" style="display: none"><label>owned</label><div class="value"></div></td> <td class="field format" style="display: none"><label>format</label><div class="value"> Paperback </div></td><td class="field actions"><label>actions</label><div class="value"> <div> <a class="nobreak" href="/review/show/824661063">view (with text)</a> </div> </div></td> </tr> <tr id="review_801937200" class="bookalike review"> <td class="field checkbox"><label>checkbox</label><div class="value"> </div></td> <td class="field position" style="display: none"><label>position</label><div class="value"></div></td> <td class="field cover"><label>cover</label><div class="value"> <div class="js-tooltipTrigger tooltipTrigger" data-resource-type="Book" data-resource-id="2153405"> <a href="/book/show/2153405.Still_Alice"><img alt="Still Alice" id="cover_review_801937200" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1236089972l/2153405._SY75_.jpg" /></a> </div> </div></td> <td class="field title"><label>title</label><div class="value"> <a title="Still Alice" href="/book/show/2153405.Still_Alice"> Still Alice </a></div></td> <td class="field author"><label>author</label><div class="value"> <a href="/author/show/978484.Lisa_Genova">Genova, Lisa</a> <span title="Goodreads Author!">*</span> </div></td> <td class="field isbn" style="display: none"><label>isbn</label><div class="value"> 0595440096 </div></td> <td class="field isbn13" style="display: none"><label>isbn13</label><div class="value"> 9780595440092 </div></td> <td class="field asin" style="display: none"><label>asin</label><div class="value"> 0595440096 </div></td> <td class="field num_pages" style="display: none"><label>num pages</label><div class="value"> <nobr> 292 <span class="greyText">pp</span> </nobr> </div></td> <td class="field avg_rating"><label>avg rating</label><div class="value"> 4.32 </div></td> <td class="field num_ratings" style="display: none"><label>num ratings</label><div class="value"> 348,258 </div></td> <td class="field date_pub" style="display: none"><label>date pub</label><div class="value"> Jul 06, 2007 </div></td> <td class="field date_pub_edition" style="display: none"><label>date pub edition</label><div class="value"> Jul 06, 2007 </div></td> <td class="field rating"><label>Jason's rating</label><div class="value"> <span class=" staticStars notranslate" title="liked it"><span size="15x15" class="staticStar p10">liked it</span><span size="15x15" class="staticStar p10"></span><span size="15x15" class="staticStar p10"></span><span size="15x15" class="staticStar p0"></span><span size="15x15" class="staticStar p0"></span></span> </div></td><td class="field shelves"><label>my rating</label><div class="value"> <div class="stars" data-resource-id="2153405" data-user-id="0" data-submit-url="/review/rate/2153405?stars_click=false" data-rating="0" data-restore-rating="null"><a class="star off" title="did not like it" href="#" ref="">1 of 5 stars</a><a class="star off" title="it was ok" href="#" ref="">2 of 5 stars</a><a class="star off" title="liked it" href="#" ref="">3 of 5 stars</a><a class="star off" title="really liked it" href="#" ref="">4 of 5 stars</a><a class="star off" title="it was amazing" href="#" ref="">5 of 5 stars</a></div> <span id="reviewMessage2153405_false"></span> <span id="successMessage2153405_false"></span> <div> <a class="smallText actionLinkLite" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">add to shelves</a> </div> </div></td><td class="field review" style="display: none"><label>review</label><div class="value"> <span id="freeTextContainerreview801937200">I avoided this book for a long time, though I’m not exactly sure why. I think the premise (or at least what I understood to be the premise) reminded m</span> <span id="freeTextreview801937200" style="display:none">I avoided this book for a long time, though I’m not exactly sure why. I think the premise (or at least what I understood to be the premise) reminded me of a <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9736930-before-i-go-to-sleep" rel="nofollow noopener">book I read</a> last year that was so horribly executed I felt very little inclination to get into something similar again. Who wants another lousy memory loss story, anyway? Well, put me in the “wrong again, asshole!” category because where the first book failed, converting an otherwise interesting idea into cheesy mindless schlock, this one delivered just fine.<br /><br />It is the story of Alice Howland, a professor of psychology at Harvard University who, at the height of her research career, slowly begins exhibiting signs of early-onset dementia. Attributing her symptoms to stress or exhaustion at first, she eventually learns that she carries a gene mutation responsible for Alzheimer’s and is already well into the early stages of the disease. Knowing the gene mutation is autosomal dominant (meaning she only needs one copy of the gene to express the disease), each of her three children stands a 50% chance of inheriting the disease as well. The knowledge of this, on top of her own losses of stature, confidence, and ultimately her independence, serves only to compound the agony.<br /><br />It is not all perfect, of course. The book is fairly breezy, refusing to delve much past the expected feelings of frustration, loneliness, and confusion that accompanies Alzheimer’s, and it often times felt rather clinical and pamphlet-y. But I am a giant nerd—I <i>like</i> clinical and pamphlet-y when the subject matter is in my realm of interests. Regardless, the book serves a purpose. It strikes the reader as remaining fairly true to the experiences of someone beginning to lose the required synapses necessary to retain memory and cognitive function—my second grader would call this “realistic fiction”—and as of its publication, it is in fact the only novel ever to have been endorsed by the Alzheimer’s Association.<br /><br />And what I’m saying here is that I guess I am endorsing it a little bit, too.</span> <a data-text-id="review801937200" href="#" onclick="swapContent($(this));; return false;">...more</a> <div class="clear"></div> </div></td><td class="field notes" style="display: none"><label>notes</label><div class="value"> <span class="greyText">Notes are private!</span> </div></td> <td class="field comments" style="display: none"><label>comments</label><div class="value"> <a href="/review/show/801937200">15</a> </div></td> <td class="field votes" style="display: none"><label>votes</label><div class="value"> <a href="/rating/voters/801937200?resource_type=Review">50</a> </div></td> <td class="field read_count" style="display: none"><label># times read</label><div class="value"> 1 </div></td><td class="field date_started" style="display: none"><label>date started</label><div class="value"> <div class="date_row"> <div class="editable_date date_started_cca99606bcfa48388711818c184a693e"> <span class="greyText">not set</span> </div> </div> </div></td><td class="field date_read"><label>date read</label><div class="value"> <div class="date_row"> <div class="editable_date date_read_cca99606bcfa48388711818c184a693e"> <span class="date_read_value">Dec 29, 2013</span> </div> </div> </div></td><td class="field date_added"><label>date added</label><div class="value"> <span title="December 27, 2013"> Dec 27, 2013 </span> </div></td><td class="field owned" style="display: none"><label>owned</label><div class="value"></div></td> <td class="field format" style="display: none"><label>format</label><div class="value"> Paperback </div></td><td class="field actions"><label>actions</label><div class="value"> <div> <a class="nobreak" href="/review/show/801937200">view (with text)</a> </div> </div></td> </tr> <tr id="review_801826392" class="bookalike review"> <td class="field checkbox"><label>checkbox</label><div class="value"> </div></td> <td class="field position" style="display: none"><label>position</label><div class="value"></div></td> <td class="field cover"><label>cover</label><div class="value"> <div class="js-tooltipTrigger tooltipTrigger" data-resource-type="Book" data-resource-id="17786593"> <a href="/book/show/17786593-transatlantic"><img alt="TransAtlantic" id="cover_review_801826392" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1365497677l/17786593._SY75_.jpg" /></a> </div> </div></td> <td class="field title"><label>title</label><div class="value"> <a title="TransAtlantic" href="/book/show/17786593-transatlantic"> TransAtlantic </a></div></td> <td class="field author"><label>author</label><div class="value"> <a href="/author/show/14080.Colum_McCann">McCann, Colum</a> <span title="Goodreads Author!">*</span> </div></td> <td class="field isbn" style="display: none"><label>isbn</label><div class="value"> 1408829371 </div></td> <td class="field isbn13" style="display: none"><label>isbn13</label><div class="value"> 9781408829370 </div></td> <td class="field asin" style="display: none"><label>asin</label><div class="value"> 1408829371 </div></td> <td class="field num_pages" style="display: none"><label>num pages</label><div class="value"> <nobr> 298 <span class="greyText">pp</span> </nobr> </div></td> <td class="field avg_rating"><label>avg rating</label><div class="value"> 3.83 </div></td> <td class="field num_ratings" style="display: none"><label>num ratings</label><div class="value"> 26,555 </div></td> <td class="field date_pub" style="display: none"><label>date pub</label><div class="value"> Jun 04, 2013 </div></td> <td class="field date_pub_edition" style="display: none"><label>date pub edition</label><div class="value"> May 23, 2013 </div></td> <td class="field rating"><label>Jason's rating</label><div class="value"> <span class=" staticStars notranslate" title="liked it"><span size="15x15" class="staticStar p10">liked it</span><span size="15x15" class="staticStar p10"></span><span size="15x15" class="staticStar p10"></span><span size="15x15" class="staticStar p0"></span><span size="15x15" class="staticStar p0"></span></span> </div></td><td class="field shelves"><label>my rating</label><div class="value"> <div class="stars" data-resource-id="17786593" data-user-id="0" data-submit-url="/review/rate/17786593?stars_click=false" data-rating="0" data-restore-rating="null"><a class="star off" title="did not like it" href="#" ref="">1 of 5 stars</a><a class="star off" title="it was ok" href="#" ref="">2 of 5 stars</a><a class="star off" title="liked it" href="#" ref="">3 of 5 stars</a><a class="star off" title="really liked it" href="#" ref="">4 of 5 stars</a><a class="star off" title="it was amazing" href="#" ref="">5 of 5 stars</a></div> <span id="reviewMessage17786593_false"></span> <span id="successMessage17786593_false"></span> <div> <a class="smallText actionLinkLite" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">add to shelves</a> </div> </div></td><td class="field review" style="display: none"><label>review</label><div class="value"> <span id="freeTextContainerreview801826392">This review is going to be mostly about me.<br/><br/>Surprise!<br/><br/>Colum McCann is an Irish writer who in 2009 wrote that book about Philippe Petit, which turns out </span> <span id="freeTextreview801826392" style="display:none">This review is going to be mostly about me.<br /><br />Surprise!<br /><br />Colum McCann is an Irish writer who in 2009 wrote that book about Philippe Petit, which turns out to have been as much about Philippe Petit as, say, <i>To Kill a Mockingbird</i> is about Boo Radley. The book merely uses Petit’s performance art as an anchoring point around which the book’s different stories of life in 1970s New York City are tethered. And in spite of the fact that the short story form is not generally my bag, I actually found it surprisingly coherent.<br /><br /><i>TransAtlantic</i> tries to do something similar here, but in this case the anchor’s weight is supplied by a generational line of women, female descendants of Ireland, and it is Irish history that weaves through and around <i>them</i>—history including the first nonstop flight across the Atlantic, Frederick Douglass’s tour of Ireland following the publishing of his first autobiography, the Great Irish Famine, the approval of the Good Friday Agreement, and The Troubles in Belfast. And while I liked this book (though not as much <i>Let the Great World Spin</i>), I don’t believe it would have been as successful in the hands of another writer. In other words, I don’t think there’s anything particularly <i>great</i> about this book, but there is something great about McCann himself. Over lunch the other day, Steve Hotopp said it’s the “Irish” in him, and I don’t know how to explain that other than to say that he has a certain flair for imagery and for setting and for establishing time and place. His characters move about without a lot of fuss but are solid characters nonetheless. And here’s where we start to talk about me. I think it might have to do with the fact that McCann’s writing makes me feel as though I’m somehow back in Ireland—back in Dublin, crossing the Liffey into the poorer northern sections, back in Dalkey Village or walking the beaches of Sandymount, back amidst the hustle and bustle of the Dún Laoghaire docks (I WANT TO TEACH YOU HOW TO SAY DÚN LAOGHAIRE!), and even back in the north, back in Belfast along the Malone Road where I lived, or on the Stranmillis, or at Queens where I went to school, or at the Europa on Great Victoria, the entire city a weird mix of Anglo and Irish influence; take a wrong turn and BOOM, you’d better have the right last name. It made me miss all those places I haven’t thought about in years, which is probably not at all what this book is supposed to do for its readership, but this is what I’m trying to tell you: that is the effect it had on me.<br /><br />Me, me, me.</span> <a data-text-id="review801826392" href="#" onclick="swapContent($(this));; return false;">...more</a> <div class="clear"></div> </div></td><td class="field notes" style="display: none"><label>notes</label><div class="value"> <span class="greyText">Notes are private!</span> </div></td> <td class="field comments" style="display: none"><label>comments</label><div class="value"> <a href="/review/show/801826392">15</a> </div></td> <td class="field votes" style="display: none"><label>votes</label><div class="value"> <a href="/rating/voters/801826392?resource_type=Review">41</a> </div></td> <td class="field read_count" style="display: none"><label># times read</label><div class="value"> 1 </div></td><td class="field date_started" style="display: none"><label>date started</label><div class="value"> <div class="date_row"> <div class="editable_date date_started_89206f994dcb4f35971a9b43b1e581ae"> <span class="greyText">not set</span> </div> </div> </div></td><td class="field date_read"><label>date read</label><div class="value"> <div class="date_row"> <div class="editable_date date_read_89206f994dcb4f35971a9b43b1e581ae"> <span class="date_read_value">May 02, 2014</span> </div> </div> </div></td><td class="field date_added"><label>date added</label><div class="value"> <span title="December 27, 2013"> Dec 27, 2013 </span> </div></td><td class="field owned" style="display: none"><label>owned</label><div class="value"></div></td> <td class="field format" style="display: none"><label>format</label><div class="value"> Hardcover </div></td><td class="field actions"><label>actions</label><div class="value"> <div> <a class="nobreak" href="/review/show/801826392">view (with text)</a> </div> </div></td> </tr> <tr id="review_754163105" class="bookalike review"> <td class="field checkbox"><label>checkbox</label><div class="value"> </div></td> <td class="field position" style="display: none"><label>position</label><div class="value"></div></td> <td class="field cover"><label>cover</label><div class="value"> <div class="js-tooltipTrigger tooltipTrigger" data-resource-type="Book" data-resource-id="12985"> <a href="/book/show/12985.The_Tempest"><img alt="The Tempest" id="cover_review_754163105" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1546081115l/12985._SY75_.jpg" /></a> </div> </div></td> <td class="field title"><label>title</label><div class="value"> <a title="The Tempest" href="/book/show/12985.The_Tempest"> The Tempest </a></div></td> <td class="field author"><label>author</label><div class="value"> <a href="/author/show/947.William_Shakespeare">Shakespeare, William</a> </div></td> <td class="field isbn" style="display: none"><label>isbn</label><div class="value"> </div></td> <td class="field isbn13" style="display: none"><label>isbn13</label><div class="value"> </div></td> <td class="field asin" style="display: none"><label>asin</label><div class="value"> </div></td> <td class="field num_pages" style="display: none"><label>num pages</label><div class="value"> <nobr> 218 <span class="greyText">pp</span> </nobr> </div></td> <td class="field avg_rating"><label>avg rating</label><div class="value"> 3.78 </div></td> <td class="field num_ratings" style="display: none"><label>num ratings</label><div class="value"> 215,933 </div></td> <td class="field date_pub" style="display: none"><label>date pub</label><div class="value"> 1611 </div></td> <td class="field date_pub_edition" style="display: none"><label>date pub edition</label><div class="value"> Jul 2004 </div></td> <td class="field rating"><label>Jason's rating</label><div class="value"> <span class=" staticStars notranslate" title="liked it"><span size="15x15" class="staticStar p10">liked it</span><span size="15x15" class="staticStar p10"></span><span size="15x15" class="staticStar p10"></span><span size="15x15" class="staticStar p0"></span><span size="15x15" class="staticStar p0"></span></span> </div></td><td class="field shelves"><label>my rating</label><div class="value"> <div class="stars" data-resource-id="12985" data-user-id="0" data-submit-url="/review/rate/12985?stars_click=false" data-rating="0" data-restore-rating="null"><a class="star off" title="did not like it" href="#" ref="">1 of 5 stars</a><a class="star off" title="it was ok" href="#" ref="">2 of 5 stars</a><a class="star off" title="liked it" href="#" ref="">3 of 5 stars</a><a class="star off" title="really liked it" href="#" ref="">4 of 5 stars</a><a class="star off" title="it was amazing" href="#" ref="">5 of 5 stars</a></div> <span id="reviewMessage12985_false"></span> <span id="successMessage12985_false"></span> <div> <a class="smallText actionLinkLite" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">add to shelves</a> </div> </div></td><td class="field review" style="display: none"><label>review</label><div class="value"> <span id="freeTextContainerreview754163105">I think <i>The Tempest</i> would have worked better as a tragedy. I don’t know why William didn’t consult with me first. I would have advised him to end his </span> <span id="freeTextreview754163105" style="display:none">I think <i>The Tempest</i> would have worked better as a tragedy. I don’t know why William didn’t consult with me first. I would have advised him to end his career with a bang: Sebastian would murder his brother Alonso, Antonio would murder Gonzalo, Caliban would have Stephano kill Prospero, Miranda would cry, Ferdinand would have discovered his father dead and murder his uncle, Miranda wouldn’t have the guts to kill her uncle Antonio, but she and Ferdinand would capture him and Caliban and avenge Prospero’s death by usurping his magical powers and indenturing them to their beck and call for the rest of eternity on the island. Ariel would be freed.<br /><blockquote><br /><b>My Shakespeare Top Ten List</b><br /><br />10. <i>The Taming of the Shrew</i><br />9. <i>Romeo and Juliet</i><br />8. <i>The Tempest</i><br />7. <i>Twelfth Night</i><br />6. <i>Othello</i><br />5. <i>A Midsummer Night’s Dream</i><br />4. <i>Much Ado About Nothing</i><br />3. <i>King Lear</i><br />2. <i>Macbeth</i><br />...<br />1. <i>Hamlet</i></blockquote></span> <a data-text-id="review754163105" href="#" onclick="swapContent($(this));; return false;">...more</a> <div class="clear"></div> </div></td><td class="field notes" style="display: none"><label>notes</label><div class="value"> <span class="greyText">Notes are private!</span> </div></td> <td class="field comments" style="display: none"><label>comments</label><div class="value"> <a href="/review/show/754163105">19</a> </div></td> <td class="field votes" style="display: none"><label>votes</label><div class="value"> <a href="/rating/voters/754163105?resource_type=Review">21</a> </div></td> <td class="field read_count" style="display: none"><label># times read</label><div class="value"> 1 </div></td><td class="field date_started" style="display: none"><label>date started</label><div class="value"> <div class="date_row"> <div class="editable_date date_started_f7ff3fdb0a6042959dade43e6cdccd5a"> <span class="greyText">not set</span> </div> </div> </div></td><td class="field date_read"><label>date read</label><div class="value"> <div class="date_row"> <div class="editable_date date_read_f7ff3fdb0a6042959dade43e6cdccd5a"> <span class="date_read_value">Jun 24, 2014</span> </div> </div> </div></td><td class="field date_added"><label>date added</label><div class="value"> <span title="November 01, 2013"> Nov 01, 2013 </span> </div></td><td class="field owned" style="display: none"><label>owned</label><div class="value"></div></td> <td class="field format" style="display: none"><label>format</label><div class="value"> Mass Market Paperback </div></td><td class="field actions"><label>actions</label><div class="value"> <div> <a class="nobreak" href="/review/show/754163105">view (with text)</a> </div> </div></td> </tr> <tr id="review_734682309" class="bookalike review"> <td class="field checkbox"><label>checkbox</label><div class="value"> </div></td> <td class="field position" style="display: none"><label>position</label><div class="value"></div></td> <td class="field cover"><label>cover</label><div class="value"> <div class="js-tooltipTrigger tooltipTrigger" data-resource-type="Book" data-resource-id="6593988"> <a href="/book/show/6593988-the-long-walk"><img alt="The Long Walk" id="cover_review_734682309" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1271242261l/6593988._SY75_.jpg" /></a> </div> </div></td> <td class="field title"><label>title</label><div class="value"> <a title="The Long Walk" href="/book/show/6593988-the-long-walk"> The Long Walk </a></div></td> <td class="field author"><label>author</label><div class="value"> <a href="/author/show/5858.Richard_Bachman">Bachman, Richard</a> </div></td> <td class="field isbn" style="display: none"><label>isbn</label><div class="value"> 0450049574 </div></td> <td class="field isbn13" style="display: none"><label>isbn13</label><div class="value"> 9780450049576 </div></td> <td class="field asin" style="display: none"><label>asin</label><div class="value"> 0450049574 </div></td> <td class="field num_pages" style="display: none"><label>num pages</label><div class="value"> <nobr> 253 <span class="greyText">pp</span> </nobr> </div></td> <td class="field avg_rating"><label>avg rating</label><div class="value"> 4.08 </div></td> <td class="field num_ratings" style="display: none"><label>num ratings</label><div class="value"> 201,362 </div></td> <td class="field date_pub" style="display: none"><label>date pub</label><div class="value"> Dec 1978 </div></td> <td class="field date_pub_edition" style="display: none"><label>date pub edition</label><div class="value"> Sep 1980 </div></td> <td class="field rating"><label>Jason's rating</label><div class="value"> <span class=" staticStars notranslate" title="liked it"><span size="15x15" class="staticStar p10">liked it</span><span size="15x15" class="staticStar p10"></span><span size="15x15" class="staticStar p10"></span><span size="15x15" class="staticStar p0"></span><span size="15x15" class="staticStar p0"></span></span> </div></td><td class="field shelves"><label>my rating</label><div class="value"> <div class="stars" data-resource-id="6593988" data-user-id="0" data-submit-url="/review/rate/6593988?stars_click=false" data-rating="0" data-restore-rating="null"><a class="star off" title="did not like it" href="#" ref="">1 of 5 stars</a><a class="star off" title="it was ok" href="#" ref="">2 of 5 stars</a><a class="star off" title="liked it" href="#" ref="">3 of 5 stars</a><a class="star off" title="really liked it" href="#" ref="">4 of 5 stars</a><a class="star off" title="it was amazing" href="#" ref="">5 of 5 stars</a></div> <span id="reviewMessage6593988_false"></span> <span id="successMessage6593988_false"></span> <div> <a class="smallText actionLinkLite" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">add to shelves</a> </div> </div></td><td class="field review" style="display: none"><label>review</label><div class="value"> <span id="freeTextContainerreview734682309"><i>The Long Walk</i> is a book by an elusive author named Richard Bachman—whom no one has ever met—about a bunch of kids being slaughtered in a near-future (</span> <span id="freeTextreview734682309" style="display:none"><i>The Long Walk</i> is a book by an elusive author named Richard Bachman—whom no one has ever met—about a bunch of kids being slaughtered in a near-future (or alternate reality) dystopian America. Which, <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/series/73758-the-hunger-games" rel="nofollow noopener">been there, done that</a>, right? Can’t unknown authors write about something that <i>wouldn’t</i> be covered again decades later? The lack of foresight here is really disappointing.<br /><br />There are differences, though, between <i>The Hunger Games</i> and this book, particularly in that the kids in <i>The Long Walk</i> are mowed down by military officials rather than by each other, and that participation in this deadly event is strictly voluntary (whereas in <i>The Hunger Games</i>, there is little “choice” in the matter). And while I don’t think it is a bad thing necessarily for some of these teenagers to get their just desserts—seriously, have you <i>met</i> a teenager?—the voluntary aspect of this event is something that I had trouble with. Because we’re not just talking a few hundred mentally disturbed kids who cannot comprehend the meaning of a 99% mortality rate. We’re talking tens of thousands of kids across the country who seem to <i>want</i> to be chosen for competition, and whose family and friends seem even to <i>encourage</i> their participation. I am not sure how dystopian this dystopia is, other than that it appears to include a military-run government, but it certainly doesn’t leave one with the impression that laying low and avoiding the event entirely should be all that difficult to do, so what’s with all these idiots wanting to get themselves killed?<br /><br />But still, the book is pretty good overall. It draws interesting conclusions about survival and what drives us to surpass that which we believe to be the limits of our physical capabilities (mind over matter) and it also addresses a point that I have always been able to relate to particularly, which is that it doesn’t take much more than a simple conversation sometimes to connect with another person, and in the case of <i>The Long Walk</i>, that connection can come to mean the difference between life and death for its characters. At the end of it all, though, it is a book that was hard to put down, and it makes one wonder why the author—whoever he is—has not been more prolific and has never broken free from relative obscurity.</span> <a data-text-id="review734682309" href="#" onclick="swapContent($(this));; return false;">...more</a> <div class="clear"></div> </div></td><td class="field notes" style="display: none"><label>notes</label><div class="value"> <span class="greyText">Notes are private!</span> </div></td> <td class="field comments" style="display: none"><label>comments</label><div class="value"> <a href="/review/show/734682309">58</a> </div></td> <td class="field votes" style="display: none"><label>votes</label><div class="value"> <a href="/rating/voters/734682309?resource_type=Review">70</a> </div></td> <td class="field read_count" style="display: none"><label># times read</label><div class="value"> 1 </div></td><td class="field date_started" style="display: none"><label>date started</label><div 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