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Disquiet, Please!: More Humor Writing From The New Yorker (2008)

by Henry Finder(Favorite Author)

3.8 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1400068010 (ISBN13: 9781400068012)

languge

English

genre

Humor

publisher

Random House

review 1: It was...meh. It's writing from The New Yorker, so there wasn't a bad story there but there were some uninteresting ones I skipped. It was way too long, so the story selection should have been tighter and there was not one single "laugh out loud" moment in the entire 755 page book. Not one. There were many stories that were amusing or witty (David Sedaris is always worth reading) but there were too many that were self-consciously clever and precious. Again, there's some good writing in many of the pieces but no hilarity -- is that just too gauche for The New Yorker? -- and hilarity is kind of the point, for me at least.
review 2: This is the second anthology of humor writing from The New Yorker, and humor being subjective, this review should certainly be ... moretaken with a grain of salt. Some of the pieces were a bit too wacky for my taste and a few others rambled off-topic, but there are some delicious nuggets to be found.I loved Paul Simms' "Four Short Crushes" and E.B. White's "How to Tell a Major Poet from a Minor Poet," and Peter de Vries' "Intruder in the Dusk" (in which he relays a child's antics, in Faulkneresque prose) is definitely worth a read. My other top picks are Paul Rudnick's "My Living Will" (okay, that one is a bit wacky), Larry Doyle's "May We tell You Our Specials This Evening" (a rift on foodie pretention), and David Brooks' "Consciencious Consumption" (a must-have guide for the reluctant Yuppie).T less

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