Books by Simon Rich
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review 1: Probably better than three stars, but not much more than that. Rich has a sharp sense of humor; a sort of hybrid of David Sedaris & Dorothy Parker. Unfortunately he wastes it on weak targets, primarily ill-behaved children & Brooklyn hipsters. Doubt it will age well, at the ve...
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review 1: I discovered some of these wonderful short stories when they were read by actors on Selected Shorts. I googled the stories and found them on the New Yorker website and found this book. Simon Rich is young and writes wonderful amusing stories. I have been able to use them with my ...
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review 1: A follow up to his previous book Ant Farm. It is written in the same style and provides the same what-if kind of humor. The stories itself are not quite as enjoyable, but it's satire still makes me show it to my friends. They also think I'm a mad man. Even though they are much mo...
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review 1: Hilarious! In fact, I frittered away the morning reading it because I just couldn't stop. Simon Rich is always funny and when I opened this last night I didn't even know what the premise was (or, in fact, that it was a novel. I assumed it was a collection. I'm not the one who che...
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review 1: Even after finishing this novel, I still can’t decide if I think it’d be better as YA or adult fiction. I guess it’s a good crossover, in a sense. The main character, Seymour Herson, is your typical unpopular nerd character who lacks charisma, intelligence, and ambition. Along co...
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review 1: I had high hopes for Simon Rich's first novel. His collections Ant Farm and Free-Range Chickens are both excellent. What in God's Name is at best sporadically funny, and occasionally goes for a laugh at the expense of the clinically depressed. Maybe if I enjoyed the humor of a...
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review 1: Elliot Allagash is one of literature’s unrepentant monsters like Jean-Baptiste Grenouille. Unlike Jean-Baptiste, Elliot’s machinations are fueled in equal parts by disinterest in human beings, complete and utter disdain for them and the malicious urge to crush them simply for ref...
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review 1: I loved this book. Everyone should read it. It's a brilliant concept. I'm not going to say more than that. Because something else has been on my mind since I read it. There was a strange quote on the cover of my copy. Something like, 'Funniest book about teenagers since Catcher i...