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Meh. And again I say - meh. And can I just say that I don't LIKE McSweeney's? Okay? I live in McSweeney's-land, I feel as if San Francisco is some sort of theme park of the mind for McSweeney's, and it just flat out leaves me cold. This collection is like David Letterman in prose -- lots of silly lists, lots of snarky pastiches of easy pop culture targets, sometimes with a meta level thrown in to please the grad students. I did laugh at the bad baby names, but don't waste my time calling this literature, okay? Go back and read James Thurber, and be amazed, amazed, at the command of prose style the man has in his best work, and the amount of literary reading you have to have done to fully enjoy what he's offering. You'll laugh, but it won't be hollow laughter.… (mais)
 
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CSRodgers | outras 15 resenhas | May 3, 2014 |
Some of these are very funny. I got the book so I could reread them. Some of them are sort of funny. Some are so-so. A good random road-trip read to pass the time.
 
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amaraduende | outras 15 resenhas | Mar 30, 2013 |
Wrong gender, wrong age, wrong demographic. Could you please pass me that New Yorker?
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ReneeGKC | outras 15 resenhas | Feb 17, 2012 |

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