A review by kdawn999
To Rise Again at a Decent Hour by Joshua Ferris

2.0

I was bored almost the whole way. There are witty bits of observation and description, and there was a little suspense and mystery surrounding the identity stealing, but it doesn't come to much. The various parts of Paul O'Rourke's mind--his parental issues, his hopeless romanticism, his Red Sox mania, his flirtation with religion, his love-hate relationship to technology--none of it seemed to cohere in a satisfying way. I would rather it had turned into a crazy treatise on the evils of social media than what it turned out to be--the uninteresting wanderings of an upper middle class, middle aged, white dude. Also, that's a pretty crap-ass title.