Reviews

Wakefield by Andrei Codrescu

kmg365's review

2.0

I'm almost at the halfway point of the audio version, and if something doesn't change my mind in the time it takes me to drive to work in the morning, I'm giving up. The writing comes across to me as intensely male, in a way that makes me feel I could never hope to understand anything that happens inside an XY brain. This book is trying hard to convince me that approximately 70% of U.S. residents have thick Eastern European accents. Perhaps that's true, and I'm simply not talking to the right people. It's also trying to convince me that 90% of all conversations in the U.S. are about art, money, philosophy, ethnicity, architecture, and various amalgams of all of the above. That I can't buy.

kahale's review

A strange book about how an architect and travel writer names Wakefield makes a deal with the devil to get the most satisfying life. A little bit of a let down at the end.

gurungr's review

2.0

Good writing but not what I was in mood for.

papaya6's review against another edition

1.0

I'm writing a review for this book to warn others not to read it--unless you like books that jump from idea to idea with no real overarching message. I read it for book club and I don't remember one person in our group being ecstatic about it. The upside: it was interesting to read a different type of book than I'd normally pick up.