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klgreen 's review for:
The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.
by Adelle Waldman
***SPOILER***
Self-absorbed, self-proclaimed intellectual guy ends up with shallow, silly, emotionally manipulative woman because she is tiny and hot.
For a guy who spends most of his time over-thinking, there is surprising little in the way of self-reflection from Nathaniel/Nate. His self-reflection seems to amount to two questions and four tick boxes...
1) Am I happy in this moment? Yes/No
If no, I will do everything in my power to make everyone around me miserable. I'm not actually curious as to why I'm miserable, I just know that I am and surely it's someone else's fault.
2) Does my behavior make me an asshole? Yes/Maybe
Probably maybe, but that doesn't make me an asshole.
Ugh. I'm not saying Nate doesn't sound like a totally plausible modern man...he is. But, just, ugh!
(And, I think "High Fidelity" did a better job examining dating from a male perspective.)
Self-absorbed, self-proclaimed intellectual guy ends up with shallow, silly, emotionally manipulative woman because she is tiny and hot.
For a guy who spends most of his time over-thinking, there is surprising little in the way of self-reflection from Nathaniel/Nate. His self-reflection seems to amount to two questions and four tick boxes...
1) Am I happy in this moment? Yes/No
If no, I will do everything in my power to make everyone around me miserable. I'm not actually curious as to why I'm miserable, I just know that I am and surely it's someone else's fault.
2) Does my behavior make me an asshole? Yes/Maybe
Probably maybe, but that doesn't make me an asshole.
Ugh. I'm not saying Nate doesn't sound like a totally plausible modern man...he is. But, just, ugh!
(And, I think "High Fidelity" did a better job examining dating from a male perspective.)