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Will Not Attend: Lively Stories Of Detachment And Isolation (2014)

by Adam Resnick(Favorite Author)

3.72 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0399160388 (ISBN13: 9780399160387)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Blue Rider Press

review 1: I just could not get into this book. I think the author was playing up his jerkitude, and - bravo - it worked for me as a reader. I get that he feels some sort of weird mix of self-superiority and victimhood, and that's all well and good if one's got the chops and the life experience to back it up. I don't feel he conveyed any of that. Some of his phrasings were delightful and made me laugh, but those were few and far between. Mostly, he came off as a giant dick. His insults (pointing out a waitress's rosacea for humor?) and his attempts at dismissive shock-value humor (making light of a potential pedophilia victim?) were callous. I really hope his stories are made up, otherwise this book is just a weird bragging exercise in banal assholery. Not worth my time but might res... moreonate with neurotic guys who want to feel like they're intellectual (the term "intellectual" used very loosely here) bullies.
review 2: Resnick, who's written for some funny shows like Late Night with David Letterman and Saturday Night Live, has a peculiar sense of humor. This is obvious if you've seen Death to Smoochy, which he also wrote. This collection of stories, primarily focused on Resnick's childhood and adolescence, embody that dark sense of humor, but the writing isn't great and some sections felt repetitive. An amusing read that sheds a little light on Resnick's formative years. less

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