What'd you think? Another book on the same chord, but opposing viewpoint is "The Vegetarian Myth". I plan on taking a look at both within the next few months.
One of my favorite booksOriginally Posted by Eff Ecks
Like many a hip young literary antihero these days, the protagonist ofthis hilarious if aimless debut is sunk in slacker anomie. Shane has amonotonous temp job at an insurance agency, where he is supposed toalphabetize paperwork but instead spends his time sleeping on thetoilet. After work, he is besieged by a gallery of grotesques: a vapidgirlfriend who sexually brutalizes him; an absurdly macho neighbor witha leather-clad guinea pig for a sex slave; and his dentist's deafassistant, who sings atonal karaoke, teaches him to sign obscenitiesand furnishes a wispy narrative thread by getting murdered. In a worldboth banal and assaultive, Shane can only drink, steal salt shakers andcultivate his sense of irony; "[t]here's only so much you can do," heshrugs, "and even that's not worth the trouble." Shane's malaisedoesn't feel earned; job aside, there are just too many gonzogoings-on—the landlord, for instance, is paying him to have sex withhis wife—for him to feel so listless. There's not much to Shane besidesa defiant dejectedness, but from that Neilan spins many sparkling comicriffs on the tawdriness and sterility of American life.
I'm about halfway through Franny and Zooey, which I started about four months ago. I also have Devil in the White City, The Art of Non-Conformity and Writing Tools (I skim through that) on deck. I'm such a moody reader.
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I heard stories that the methods of the main character actually works in real lifeOriginally Posted by TJ Detweiler
^I've read itPretty interesting book.
Originally Posted by ForeverDecember21
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