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Arbitrary Stupid Goal
by Tamara Shopsin
CRITICAL WARNING RE: AUDIO at the end. //
These are somewhat aimless, very brief slices-of-New-York-life from the perspective of Kenny Shopsin’s daughter. He was a bit eccentric; so is she. If his ever-changing menu is any indication, he sometimes lacked focus. So does she. The stories don’t always have logical beginnings and endings, but taken as a whole they leave the reader with a solid impression of life on Morton St, life as a Shopsin, and life in ‘80s-era New York.
I generally love listening to authors read their own memoirs. For some reason, the publisher agreed to a completely insane proposition that every time Tamara inserted a tiny drawing in the narrative there’d be a VERY LOUD CLOWN HORN NOISE indicating the listener should refer to a pdf containing all the images. It is the craziest bugshit I’ve encountered in an audiobook. It’s so loud and so distributive and so unnecessary. I also got the ebook from the library (which allows me to “catch up” on these illustrations, since library audiobooks never come with the PDFs) and can safely say that, halfway through the book, only one of these images helped me appreciate the text/scene better and that’s because it was a photo.
BE WAAAAARNED!
These are somewhat aimless, very brief slices-of-New-York-life from the perspective of Kenny Shopsin’s daughter. He was a bit eccentric; so is she. If his ever-changing menu is any indication, he sometimes lacked focus. So does she. The stories don’t always have logical beginnings and endings, but taken as a whole they leave the reader with a solid impression of life on Morton St, life as a Shopsin, and life in ‘80s-era New York.
I generally love listening to authors read their own memoirs. For some reason, the publisher agreed to a completely insane proposition that every time Tamara inserted a tiny drawing in the narrative there’d be a VERY LOUD CLOWN HORN NOISE indicating the listener should refer to a pdf containing all the images. It is the craziest bugshit I’ve encountered in an audiobook. It’s so loud and so distributive and so unnecessary. I also got the ebook from the library (which allows me to “catch up” on these illustrations, since library audiobooks never come with the PDFs) and can safely say that, halfway through the book, only one of these images helped me appreciate the text/scene better and that’s because it was a photo.
BE WAAAAARNED!