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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Religious beliefs divide a family - it happens. The conflict in this novel, though, is pretty extreme -- on one side, a mother and daughter make the decision to become Orthodox Hasids, without the son - the narrator of the book, who ends up, almost by default, living with his father who is hanging on to a burlesque theater owned by HIS father. Times are tough for burlesque and David's father is "forced" to bring in adult toys and peep shows. So, on one side, two women are adopting the conservative dress and sheitels (brown wigs) and, on the other, women are taking it ALL off in the name of "entertainment". I don't read a LOT of fiction, and if I pick some up, it had better keep my attention - which this book did. I carried it around with me, reading it anytime I had five minutes. David, a budding photographer, captures both extremes of his family on film throughout the book, as he stands in a sort of no man's land -- not wanting to immerse himself in either. Great read! Peep Show by Joshua Braff was a very quick read that I powered through yesterday. Even though it moved quickly and was fairly compelling (what other terrible things could possibly happen to this shipwreck of a family?) it was not an enjoyable read for me. So I slept on it, and woke up knowing exactly why this novel was so unsettling. It was the anger! Has there ever been so much anger displayed by so many dysfunctional characters? Everybody was angry about something--or everything! David, too, was angry about everything in his life, but especially about his desertion by his family. His mother, especially, left him stranded; but his dad in his own way also deserted David by subjecting him to a thoroughly inappropriate lifestyle. Perhaps Debra wasn't angry, but only because she was too complacent to realize she should be angry. She lets the reader do it for her! This book kept my interest, but was quite poorly written. The people were stereotypes and required no intelligence to portray them. I would not receomment this book to anyone. There are better written books that portray family disintegration; these books portray micj more comples characters. I question Braff's purpose in writing this book. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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Setting the book against a fledgling adult shop makes it easy to say "this person is an unfit parent" while highlighting that the porn shop owner is actually the more caring parent, but such a decision seems lazy. This could have been a stronger novel if Braff had focused on the family dynamic without using the shorthand of "EWWW PORN." ( )