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James Thurber: Writings & Drawings (Loa #90) by James Thurber

brannonkrkhuang's review

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I read 350 pages and was struggling so much to stay interested, to keep reading that I actually stopped reading the book for several (at least four, if not more) years and allowed it to sit on my bookshelf, always thinking in the back of my mind, "Eventually I'll finish that bastard." This weekend, I tried it. I got 400 pages in and realized I wasn't having a good time. With 600 pages still to go, I decided to cut my losses and not waste more of my limited time alive on this earth reading a long book that wasn't doing it for me. Also, there are some sexist, misogynistic jokes which are terribly annoying. It just feels like the author assumes all of his readers are men and so he brings this sort of, "Ha ha, aren't we so much cleverer than them," energy to the writing. 
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