Fleishman a pezzi

Damn, I wanted to like this novel. Brodesser-Akner is one of our greatest magazine feature writers , and the reviews—by people I trust—have been near-unanimous raves. But I kind of hated it. There are many, many sharp observations here about men & women & marriage & divorce. The prose is extremely quo Leggi tutto

This is indeed a very readable novel with really interesting characters. There are a lot of people in their early forties having mid-life crises in this novel. And I was really interested in those crises as they are very interesting. The prose is so dense, almost too dense at times. This is one of t Leggi tutto

Believe the hype. “Fleishman Is in Trouble” is even better than we were promised. Taffy Brodesser-Akner, a New York Times Magazine writer, brings to her first novel the currency of a hot dating app and the wisdom of a Greek tragedy. The result is a feminist jeremiad nested inside a brilliant comic n Leggi tutto

Man there's a lot of sex in this book. It feels like it's on every page. I wasn't offended by it, it just bored me. If Toby Fleishman is not scrolling through revealing pics over horny older women on a dating app, he's thinking about the last time he banged his horrible ex-wife, or when he might ban Leggi tutto

I’m not saying stories about the marital and financial angst of people who make well over six figures and choose (voluntarily!) to live in New York are by nature dull and exhausting, but wow, this one was. In this novel, it seems every unhappy family is, in fact, unhappy in the exact same way, and n Leggi tutto

A sharp and sardonic novel in which the only nice person is the 9 year old son.