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3.48 AVERAGE
3.48 AVERAGE
Only 200 pages, but experienced as blunt trauma as if a much larger book had hit you about the head.
reflective
slow-paced
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
A horse walks into a bar . . . Then what? Stories unfold. Stories quickly alter.
Translated into English by Jessica Cohen, A Horse Walks Into A Bar unfurls stories through a stand-up routine in a club in Netanya, Israel. It is the final show of Dovaleh Greenstein, which is attended by his old friend and the first-person narrator, Avishai Lazar. What started of as laughter slouched in by the nonchalance of understanding. With just 197 pages, the book carries with it a profound weight. It is in a veritable swamp that I found myself trapped into.
Grossman's words did to me what Dov did to his audience. Like them, annoyance persisted in me. I wanted to laugh at a few instances, but I couldn't. Had I laughed, how would I have lived with the guilt that followed? I kept holding on to the jutted pathways. Dysfunction reigned supreme as it did for the characters. It was torturous and (sometimes) claustrophobic.
Translated into English by Jessica Cohen, A Horse Walks Into A Bar unfurls stories through a stand-up routine in a club in Netanya, Israel. It is the final show of Dovaleh Greenstein, which is attended by his old friend and the first-person narrator, Avishai Lazar. What started of as laughter slouched in by the nonchalance of understanding. With just 197 pages, the book carries with it a profound weight. It is in a veritable swamp that I found myself trapped into.
Grossman's words did to me what Dov did to his audience. Like them, annoyance persisted in me. I wanted to laugh at a few instances, but I couldn't. Had I laughed, how would I have lived with the guilt that followed? I kept holding on to the jutted pathways. Dysfunction reigned supreme as it did for the characters. It was torturous and (sometimes) claustrophobic.
There was some funny moments in this book. However, there is so much more than that. We see the main characters life through his stand up, but I found the childhood friends point of view interesting. It was a little long winded in spots, but I can see why this book was given such positive reviews.
I have no idea how to star this. It's certainly a journey.
This is definetly a different book. The story is told in a setting of stand up comedian doing his set. At the start there were more comedy but soon it turns into a narrative of his past.
His childhood "friend" is invited to watch his performance and we, the reader see it from his point of view and he has no idea why he is contacted after around 30+ years..
It's a story about grief and family life about an israeli family with a bit of a past which the comedian doesn't actually know about. And he is reliving these moments as he narrate.
At first I did not like some of the jokes because they were literally offensive to his audience and women. There are some political jokes as well but his jokes reduce with time.
It is a well written book..
His childhood "friend" is invited to watch his performance and we, the reader see it from his point of view and he has no idea why he is contacted after around 30+ years..
It's a story about grief and family life about an israeli family with a bit of a past which the comedian doesn't actually know about. And he is reliving these moments as he narrate.
At first I did not like some of the jokes because they were literally offensive to his audience and women. There are some political jokes as well but his jokes reduce with time.
It is a well written book..
I am not sure how I feel about this book. I kind of liked it but I also feel that maybe there was something more to it that I didn't get...
3.5 stars, I think. Gathering my thoughts for the review.
One of those books the story or the setting of which really didn't interest me at all. Had some great, mysterious quality of fine literature, however, that compelled me finish it. Odd resemblance with Colum McCann's Let the Great World Spin in my mind.