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A review by obsidian_blue
One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories by B.J. Novak
2.0
I am sure many customers know who BJ Novak is and that he starred on "The Office" for several years and has done movies as well. I have loved his acting for years and always loved his character of Ryan on "The Office". I assumed that his collection of short stories would be funny but I found out that I was unfortunately wrong.
All in all there are approximately 63 short stories in "One More Thing". Don't worry about the number of stories in this collection since some of the stories are fairly short (shortest was just three or perhaps four sentences) and the longest was maybe around 10 pages. This is really the only positive thing I can say about these stories is that they read very fast and you tend to zip through them all.
The biggest issue for me which is why I gave this only 1.5 stars is that there is no common theme tying all of these stories together. I don't know if Mr. Novak was trying to be funny or high brow or make the reader think but in the end none of these stories worked for me. I am sure that his writing was meant to evoke reactions (what reactions I don't know) and that some of his stories were metaphors for something else taking place in society. However, the biggest reaction I had was a feeling of annoyance while reading these stories and that I was back in my college English Lit course all over again (and for those of you who wonder this was not a good thing at all).
I do want to say that there were some stories that I disliked less than others. Some of these were the following, "The Rematch", "The Something by John Grisham", "The Impatient Billionaire and the Mirror for Earth". Others I downright disliked such as "The Comedy Central Roast of Nelson Mandela," "The Ghost of Mark Twain, " and "The Vague Restaurant Critic." The other stories honestly didn't leave much of an impression on me.
All in all there are approximately 63 short stories in "One More Thing". Don't worry about the number of stories in this collection since some of the stories are fairly short (shortest was just three or perhaps four sentences) and the longest was maybe around 10 pages. This is really the only positive thing I can say about these stories is that they read very fast and you tend to zip through them all.
The biggest issue for me which is why I gave this only 1.5 stars is that there is no common theme tying all of these stories together. I don't know if Mr. Novak was trying to be funny or high brow or make the reader think but in the end none of these stories worked for me. I am sure that his writing was meant to evoke reactions (what reactions I don't know) and that some of his stories were metaphors for something else taking place in society. However, the biggest reaction I had was a feeling of annoyance while reading these stories and that I was back in my college English Lit course all over again (and for those of you who wonder this was not a good thing at all).
I do want to say that there were some stories that I disliked less than others. Some of these were the following, "The Rematch", "The Something by John Grisham", "The Impatient Billionaire and the Mirror for Earth". Others I downright disliked such as "The Comedy Central Roast of Nelson Mandela," "The Ghost of Mark Twain, " and "The Vague Restaurant Critic." The other stories honestly didn't leave much of an impression on me.