A review by lola425
Flatscreen by Adam Wilson

3.0

Meh. Stoner with a heart of gold fiction is just not for me, I guess. It read a lot like Jonathan Ames to me, the same kind of sad sack, social misfit who can't quite make it with girls befriends a strange, vaguely pathetic older man of the world and through the friendship starts to fund out who he is and who he is not. Liked it well enough, although I did not care what happened to any of the characters. Strong writing though, at times funny, but not the side-splitting tome Shteyngart's blurb claims it is.