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A review by barrettcmyk
The Uncollected David Rakoff: Including the Entire Text of Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish by David Rakoff
2.0
It's not that this wasn't a good book per se, but it definitely wasn't what I was expecting. Without knowing anything about Rakoff (other than his Gregor Samsa and Dr Seuss epistolary that I heard on NPR -- which is in this volume and worth picking up this book all by itself), I think I expected a lot more absurdist humor.
Instead, this collection is more of a memoir, told through the various articles and poems Rakoff wrote for all sorts of publications in his lifetime. My favorites were the most mundane-- a week long entry of everything Rakoff ate, notes written on a plane after a visit to his childhood home.
What mostly lost me -- again, no fault of the author -- were the stories about NYC. I suppose I'm just cynic enough to not be among the starry-eyed admirers of the city, so anything I see yet another movie or book or article or whatever set in the city, mentally roll my eyes. Likely a holdover from being raised in a small town...?
Instead, this collection is more of a memoir, told through the various articles and poems Rakoff wrote for all sorts of publications in his lifetime. My favorites were the most mundane-- a week long entry of everything Rakoff ate, notes written on a plane after a visit to his childhood home.
What mostly lost me -- again, no fault of the author -- were the stories about NYC. I suppose I'm just cynic enough to not be among the starry-eyed admirers of the city, so anything I see yet another movie or book or article or whatever set in the city, mentally roll my eyes. Likely a holdover from being raised in a small town...?