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All the sad young pop-culture-saturated hyperliterary men mope their way under our skin, one deadpan, declarative sentence at a time.
Eat When You Feel Sad is a novel about Robert. Eat When You Feel Sad is a novel about a generation. Robert was born in the 1980s. He was born in the United States of America. In Eat When You Feel Sad, Robert feeds his cat, watches television and drinks beer. In Eat When You Feel Sad, Robert gets mustard on his clothes, rides a bicycle and talks on Gmail chat. Eat When You Feel Sad takes place in cars, houses, and apartments. Eat When You Feel Sad takes place in a school, a community center, and several Chinese restaurants. Eat When You Feel Sad is a selection of scenes from a life.
Eat When You Feel Sad will be found on a short shelf of short literary novels that includes Bret Easton Ellis's Less than Zero and Tao Lin's Eeeee Eee Eeee—where young people seek their own reflection, and face reality with humor and hope.
German's debut novel follows protagonist Robert, an emaciated vegan, through the always relevant trials and tribulations of growing up. German's writing is comprised entirely of short, staccato sentences: "Robert is riding his bike. He's wearing a sweater. There is a red light. Robert stops riding his bike." Through this stylized writing, readers follow Robert from a suburban childhood of listening to records, smoking pot and stealing from a bookstore to his first sexual experience with girlfriend Alison ("Robert and Alison have sex. They finish having sex."), and finally a move to a nameless city and the unavoidable struggle to find himself. Robert tries kissing guys, making carrot juice, and plenty of drinking and getting stoned, but doesn't ever find what he's searching for. The complications of life seem to fly by him with little consequence. The book has many charms, even though German's minimalist style of writing-clearly mimicking his main character's view of life-can be a bit daunting. The deadpan delivery does add humor to Robert's daily routine, and the unromanticized life of a twenty-something hipster is a refreshing change of pace from the usual way that such creatures are portrayed.
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Jonathan Smith
reviewed Eat When You Feel Sad on February 10, 2010 Eat When You Feel Sad
As a diet book author myself ("The Silicon Valley Diet," Red Hen Press, 2000), I am sent many diet books to comment upon, especially in January after all the over-indulging of the holidays. Many are worthless, but "Eat When You Feel Sad" is a common-sense diet book that will help many overweight people take off the pounds sensibly and without negative consequences to either their physical or mental health. Aimed mostly at middle-aged suburban moms and dads whose formerly trim and toned bodies have become more pear-shaped, "Eat When You Feel Sad" presents a practical plan that will help people who have a hard time enjoying the foods they like because of guilt or find themselves fixated on their weight form a better self-image and achieve better control of their eating habits. This book is filled with detailed diets and helpful words of encouragement written in a very warm, personable way.
Full of Zachary German's motivating tips and tricks and his smart, sensible eating advice that really works to take weight off, "Eat When You Feel Sad" is a diet book presenting a plan you'll be able to stick to, have success on, and even enjoy. One caveat: if you suffer from major depression, this is probably not the diet book for you and it may even prove counterproductive
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