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The Cassandra Chronicles (2009)

by Ariel Leve(Favorite Author)

3.23 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1846272033 (ISBN13: 9781846272035)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Portobello Books

review 1: Leve has a lifestyle many women would chew their left arm off for. Smart, witty, single, and gets to live in both London and New York. Not to mention writing for any number of prestigious publications.Yet if you believe her alter ego in "The Cassandra Chronicles", Leve is a reclusive, depressive hypochondriac who annoys friends and boyfriends alike. It makes for amusing reading, especially for someone who also tends towards seclusion, depression, hypochondria, and irritating everyone around her. I thoroughly enjoyed Leve's wry, dry, world-weary take on modern metropolitan life, and her ruthless analysis of her own neuroses, though I can't help suspecting that she's far more entertaining and charming than she lets on.
review 2: Kill me now. Maybe Ariel Leve shou... moreld try stand-up comedy, because this is completely the wrong medium for her brand of humour. Face to face, she would probably be very funny and could possibly replace Jackie Mason as our favourite New York Jewish pessimist. But it just doesn't work in print.What you get is a protracted, nihilistic whinge. Occasionally she tries to make it funny, but mostly she can't be bothered. That's not a problem in a newspaper column, where one reads one entry a day, or perhaps a week, but a book demands a bigger investment of one's time. Page after page of morose glumness isn't good enough and shows a failure to understand the medium. less

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