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The Deep Whatsis (2013)

by Peter Mattei(Favorite Author)

3.26 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1590516389 (ISBN13: 9781590516386)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Other Press

review 1: I absolutely loved this book. The main character has a fantastic dark sense of humor. This book is a mental re-set on what a five-star rating really is... I know now that I've given some books in the past five stars just out of kindness or generosity. But this one deserves five stars, while all but about three other books I've read in my entire life should honestly be knocked down to four stars. I hope Peter Mattei is working on another book.
review 2: This was quite enjoyable and smart. It's like a an Ayn Rand novel where everything becomes inverted: how the mighty are brought low, and it's actually good for them. Or, it could be seen as just one in a series glamorous failures by ad man and self-proclaimed douchebag Eric Nye--think "Mad Men" set in the curre... morent North Brooklyn, Vice Magazine milieu of young, lazy cultural "creatives". Erics frantically narrates his own story as he teeters on the brink of utter self-loathing for his late-capitalistic mindset and compulsive, empty consumerism. I'd like to run with the Ayn Rand idea because her work is evoked at least twice, particularly vividly in scene where Eric recalls how a character in "Atlas Shrugged" ritually castrates himself to gain the upper hand. "Deep Whatsis", however, has something ultimately destructive to Rand's philosophy, which is a love story between the antihero and his anti-ingenue. And I won't tell you what is "the deep whatsis"--you'll have to find out for yourself. less

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