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Castration Celebration (2009)

by Jake Wizner(Favorite Author)

3.48 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0375852158 (ISBN13: 9780375852152)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Random House Books for Young Readers

review 1: I only read the first 49 pages of this novel. I had high expectations going in, but I felt Wizner took the more juvenile route. I thought that the concept could have been done with great wit and intelligence but instead stayed more in the gutter than it needed to.That said, it did provide for a lovely incident over lunch. A new employee at a nearby cafe was trying to be friendly when she realized I was a person from the library. She made the mistake of asking me what I was reading. When I showed her the cover she recovered creatively by saying, "Well, that happens," which makes me wonder what exactly she did for a profession before hiring on at the cafe.
review 2: The crude humor did not in any way make up for the slow pacing and simple plot. There was so... more much potential for conflict and discussion, but the book felt like one big sex joke with some pot thrown in for fun. I felt that the character development was "surprise, you're Jewish" or "i'm cute and basically superficial". I'm possibly being too harsh since there were some potential "issues" that could have been addressed rather than mentioned and forgotten (yes, not every book has to be a "problem" novel, but if you mention bad self-esteem, broken families, pot smoking escapism, and unresolved anger and you should at least start to resolve something). Yes, real life issues don't go away at the end of a summer, but this is a book, and I expect at least a beginning of a solution. One the other hand, the crude humor was at times enough to keep me reading. And it was a very easy book to read. less

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