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Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon
2.0

This is pretty much on the level of Telegraph Avenue rather than The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay or The Yiddish Policemen's Union - so, depending on your feelings on the former (which I didn't like much) or the latter 2 (which I loved), you can probably decide whether or not this is for you.

Obviously, this wasn't for me.

I didn't find it funny - there's a lot of drug use, for one (which doesn't offend me or anything; I just find it boring), and there's a dog death as well (which only bothered me a little, because there's not any way to get particularly attached to the dog in question, but still). Both were probably supposed to be much more humorous than I found them.

It didn't help that I couldn't care either way what happened to either Grady or James.

I didn't hate this book or anything, but it's the most solid "meh" in a while.