When did David Sedaris start to sound as irritatingly clueless and curmudgeonly as late-period Erma Bombeck? I’m stunningly disappointed in this collection. Here’s a summary: Successful middle aged well to do white guy is occasionally moderately inconvenienced and really hates his dad. Gonna go read “Santaland Diaries” and wash off the stink of this one.
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rustybroadsword rated Concerning the Spiritual in Art: 1 star
Ruined by Design: How Designers Destroyed the World, and What We Can Do to Fix It by Mike Monteiro
The world is working exactly as designed.
The combustion engine which is destroying our planet’s atmosphere and rapidly making it …
rustybroadsword rated Death in Her Hands: 2 stars
rustybroadsword rated Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning: 5 stars
rustybroadsword rated Sister Outsider: 5 stars
Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
A collection of fifteen essays written between 1976 and 1984 gives clear voice to Audre Lorde's literary and philosophical personae. …
rustybroadsword rated Designing the Search Experience: 3 stars
rustybroadsword rated The Metamorphosis and other stories: 5 stars
The Metamorphosis and other stories by Franz Kafka
This collection of new translations brings together the small proportion of Kafka's works that he thought worthy of publication. It …
rustybroadsword rated The Office of Historical Corrections: 5 stars
The Office of Historical Corrections by Danielle Evans
The award-winning author of Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self brings her signature voice and insight to the subjects …
rustybroadsword rated Heart of a Dog: 2 stars
Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков, Andrey Kurkov, Michael Glenny: Heart of a Dog (2009, Penguin Random House)
Heart of a Dog by Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков, Andrey Kurkov, Michael Glenny
A superb comic masterpiece and fierce parable of the Russian Revolution by the author of The Master and Margarita. WITH …
rustybroadsword rated A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: 5 stars
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace
In this exuberantly praised book — a collection of seven pieces on subjects ranging from television to tennis, from the …
From the perils of French dentistry to the eating habits of the Australian kookaburra, from …
Review of "Let's explore diabetes with owls" on 'Storygraph'
2 stars
rustybroadsword rated The uncensored picture of Dorian Gray: 2 stars
The uncensored picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
More than 120 years after Oscar Wilde submitted The Picture of Dorian Gray for publication in Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine, the …