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a_writer_guy 's review for:
The Weirdness
by Jeremy P. Bushnell
I struggled with liking this book. Every time I sat down to read some of it I was flopping back and forth from thinking it was really funny to really trite. The main character, Billy Ridgeway, was at times very relateable and other times a complete moron you couldn't help but despise. The story actually started off very well for me, plenty of humor and mundane musings on stupid minutae of everyday life. Kind of like Seinfeld, but not nearly as funny. Once the plot kind of started to roll forward - which took a really long time, by the way - I felt like it went nowhere and it took forever doing it. I guess I expected a lot of content about Billy trying to retrieve the Neko and failing in different ways. Instead it was a lot of internal struggle with whether he should or not and then he tries once, fails, and the story goes off on an almost completely unrelated tangent.
The writing was fine. The humor was decent overall with some stand out jokes. The story was an interesting idea but a little weak in the delivery. Overally, it was really just kind of ok. In a few years I'm sure I won't be able to recount much of anything from this book if asked.
The writing was fine. The humor was decent overall with some stand out jokes. The story was an interesting idea but a little weak in the delivery. Overally, it was really just kind of ok. In a few years I'm sure I won't be able to recount much of anything from this book if asked.