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Out Of My Skin (2009)

by John Haskell(Favorite Author)

3.14 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0374299099 (ISBN13: 9780374299095)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

review 1: This writer has a lot of talent. There were a few moments when I laughed out loud. BUT.I never really connected with the Characters. that's a problem for me. The book is written in 1st person--not a problem. It worked well. I can't put my finger on it. I really wanted to like the main character, but I just couldn't. I kept telling him to shut up (in my mind, as I was reading.) maybe it was the many, many movie/actor/mythology references? Maybe the fact that he was impersonating an impersonator really annoyed me? On the plus side, it's a quick read. I wanted to chuck it midway, but the fact that it's a somewhat short book made me keep going.
review 2: If Will Farrell re-wrote Less Than Zero. The deadpan awkwardness that Farrell brings between the mugging of Anc... morehorman and the maudlin overreaching of Stranger than Fiction. Haskell splits the difference by doing the "Wait, here's the profound moment" thing. By signaling the coming of a Profound Moment--by putting it implicitly in caps--he gets away with it. Or feels like he gets away with it. So it's up to you if you decide to let him. I let him, most of the time. The book was short enough that it was over before I started to wonder whether it was pointless. less

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