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ah i'm quite torn. I really really loved Alsadir's poetry collection, Fourth Person Singular, which was a beautiful marriage of her psychoanalytic background with a fresh, exquisitely 21st century, lyric theory. I was good with Animal Joy, Alsadir's a good writer & I was surprised to find myself rly enjoying the anecdotes and psychoanalytic examples via her daughters.
I don't know how much laughter-theory is published these days but it's a nice case of it, I would! recommend if that's your zone. Maybe I'm just HMMing because my expectations were set so astronomically high by Fourth Person Singular ... maybe I wanted More clown content. maybe I'm wondering if it needed all of those tangents,,, but who's complaining!

rhiannatherad's review against another edition

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slow-paced

1.75

rooney214's review against another edition

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reflective medium-paced

4.0

sdolph's review against another edition

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3.0

what a doozy! i reaaaalllllly wanted to like this because i love the idea of it, but it simply did not land for me! alsadir is absolutely brilliant, that is a fact, but perhaps too brilliant for lil ol' me...

good core themes, some interesting theory connections, but a lot of walking around in circles, backtracking, making connections that felt disjointed to me. i feel that if this book was about 150 pages less and a bit more focused, it could've worked for me ... alas...

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3.0

started off interesting, feel like it could have been about half as long tbh

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