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3.9 AVERAGE
3.9 AVERAGE
A memoir that seems like fiction. These sound like fictional characters living a storyline. Colorful, outlandish people living in fabled place - and a bar no less. Funny, exasperating -the main character, the narrator, is a putz, a dreamer, his own worst enemy, and sometimes hard to believe.
emotional
funny
reflective
sad
medium-paced
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
sad
fast-paced
emotional
funny
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Content Warnings
Graphic: Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Abandonment, Alcohol
Overly self indulgent. I hoped for and expected more, the bar characters were interesting but not completely believable. I guess as a memoir this is a remembering of how he wanted it to be but then just sell it as the fiction it seems to be.
A funny and well-written memoir about taking and not taking the path of least resistance.
emotional
funny
informative
inspiring
reflective
tense
medium-paced
to me, this was a good, but by no means amazing book. possible because the themes/plots are exactly those i am drawn to and tend to read a lot of, whereas they may have been more unique/novel to those that were really drawn in.
i found that he tried a little too hard to vbe generous in describing other people. i dont blame him, but it comes off a little... disingenuine... needy.... something?
in terms of style, he is (sometimes nearly funny in his phrasing, (which the actually quite bemuinsg college essay premisis encapsulated) - in particular i'm recalling "[he shook my hand and b olt of testerone made its way up my arm.) he also tried too hard, but not well, too include what he perceived as funny interludes. not a hugely negative thing overally, though
and i found his character a little unlikeable, namely in his disinclination to be present, let alone sympathetic or helpful at others people's crises. his failure to empathize with mcGraw's screaming mother a prime example.
his failure to ever even vaguley credit the 'grubby' insightful brilliant nice-breasted girl he briefly dated indictive of another flaw.
i found that he tried a little too hard to vbe generous in describing other people. i dont blame him, but it comes off a little... disingenuine... needy.... something?
in terms of style, he is (sometimes nearly funny in his phrasing, (which the actually quite bemuinsg college essay premisis encapsulated) - in particular i'm recalling "[he shook my hand and b olt of testerone made its way up my arm.) he also tried too hard, but not well, too include what he perceived as funny interludes. not a hugely negative thing overally, though
and i found his character a little unlikeable, namely in his disinclination to be present, let alone sympathetic or helpful at others people's crises. his failure to empathize with mcGraw's screaming mother a prime example.
his failure to ever even vaguley credit the 'grubby' insightful brilliant nice-breasted girl he briefly dated indictive of another flaw.