christianholub 's review for:

The Ask by Sam Lipsyte

3.0

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This book is hilarious, basically a 21st century highly intelligent poor man's version of "Catch-22" (it can be as funny, but is never as moving) that probably won't even be readable in 10 years becaus it is so exquisitely NOW. It touches on every potential angle of modern male impotency and the postmodern relations between humans and TV, rich and poor, fathers and sons, and everything else. It's wickedly clever, either making me laugh or wowing me to the degree that I had to whip out a notebook and transcribe the line so I could eternally revisit its cleverness.