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matt2thefuture 's review for:
One Last Thing Before I Go
by Jonathan Tropper
Lightning fast read and typical Tropper--which are both very good things.
Another Tropper move is to use first narrative with a ton of great dialogue. If there was one thing I'll remember about One Last Thing Before I Go, it's that he moved away from both of those strengths a bit in this one. The disembodied narrator spent a lot of time telling about the inside of the main character's head, which wasn't necessarily the most engaging to spend the majority of the book. Also, except for a few dialogue only chapters (which were written beautifully, by the way), this novel had less dialogue than probably any Tropper book to date. Considering how money his dialogue is, that's not necessarily a good thing. I would've preferred to spent more time listening to this amusing cast of characters chat back and forth.
The charming emotion is still prevalent as well as a traditional Tropper ending--which I'm a big fan of. Even when the main character may be a little weaker than those that surround him and the story isn't quiet as sharp as you've seen Tropper construct in the past, you know you're still going to have fun. That makes up for a lot.
One Last Thing Before I Go falls well short of How to Talk to a Widower and This is Where I Leave You and The Book of Joe. I'd probably put this near the bottom of the heap for Tropper, which isn't necessarily that low in the grand scheme of things, because I still had a pretty good time.
Another Tropper move is to use first narrative with a ton of great dialogue. If there was one thing I'll remember about One Last Thing Before I Go, it's that he moved away from both of those strengths a bit in this one. The disembodied narrator spent a lot of time telling about the inside of the main character's head, which wasn't necessarily the most engaging to spend the majority of the book. Also, except for a few dialogue only chapters (which were written beautifully, by the way), this novel had less dialogue than probably any Tropper book to date. Considering how money his dialogue is, that's not necessarily a good thing. I would've preferred to spent more time listening to this amusing cast of characters chat back and forth.
The charming emotion is still prevalent as well as a traditional Tropper ending--which I'm a big fan of. Even when the main character may be a little weaker than those that surround him and the story isn't quiet as sharp as you've seen Tropper construct in the past, you know you're still going to have fun. That makes up for a lot.
One Last Thing Before I Go falls well short of How to Talk to a Widower and This is Where I Leave You and The Book of Joe. I'd probably put this near the bottom of the heap for Tropper, which isn't necessarily that low in the grand scheme of things, because I still had a pretty good time.