A review by anjreading
The Great Man Theory by Teddy Wayne

3.0

I appreciated this book while simultaneously rolling my eyes and feeling annoyed by it. It has that whole Curb Your Enthusiasm vibe of an old white guy rubbing everyone the wrong way but clueless as to why it's happening. Paul is a recently demoted adjunct composition instructor, divorced and, in his mind, doing his best at parenting his young daughter. Paul is a crank, disgusted with the world and smug in his liberalism and anti-technology stance, so much so that he is writing a book called The Luddite Manifesto. There were funny moments and tedious ones, and then the ending jumped the shark a bit and I was left wondering what, exactly, I had just read. I'm not the target audience for this novel.