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"Uproarious...one of the funniest writers around."--The New Yorker Tad Leary has problems. Just fired from his job at a Manhattan private school, about to be evicted from his sublet, and stalled on his dissertation ("Social Hierarchies of Imaginary Places"), he wakes up on the Sunday before Christmas to realize he has seven parties to attend. A trooper in jeans and a pressed white shirt, he sets off for brunch with his eccentric family, an afternoon performance-art piece by a friend sporting little more than a tattooed goatee, a dinner party where he runs into an ex-girlfriend, a late-night soiree where he spars with an ex-boyfriend, and more. With a charming combination of wit, wisdom--and just a little whimpering--Tad charts a survivalist's course through Manhattan's social hierarchies. "A delight.... By turns zany and meditative, satirical and mellow...a gently bittersweet comedy."--Newsday  "A wise, hilarious stocking stuffer."--The Village Voice
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Jacob A Weary
reviewed Let nothing you dismay on June 20, 2007
Let nothing you dismay
The first few pages and last couple of pages of this book were the best part. It's the pity that everything in between had to ruin it.
The sort of contrary, lost-conflictedness of the main character came through quite strongly-- surprisingly strongly that I felt an intense level of resonance with. Thinking, much as I did with Kamikaze Girls, that I might find a character that would really be like ME. A ME from a male point of view.
Unfortunately I was disappointed as the character wandered from one pointless scene to the next, never really defining what his issues were, or lack thereof. He doesn't have a point, so therefore even his meandering is just an exercise in meandering. He doesn't even meander anywhere interesting. Literally, I think the entire middle section of the book could have been cut out, and it wouldn't have effected the main narrative.
Not worth the time to read. Just pick it up for the interesting beginning and end, and you've got the entire story right there.
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