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Crédit image: DAN KENNEDY: New York author, humorist, and host of The Moth Podcast. Photo by Kat Burdick

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I didn't enjoy this one as much as his other book, Loser Goes First. And I ended up missing the book signing here in Atlanta which is what prompted me to read the book in the first place.
 
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jlweiss | 10 autres critiques | Apr 23, 2021 |
Laugh out loud funny, which can be kind of a problem if you're reading it in a surgeon's waiting room and no one else seems to be in the mood to listen to you giggle. Looking forward to his next one, which I think it due out in February.
 
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jlweiss | 1 autre critique | Apr 23, 2021 |
While reading American Spirit by Dan Kennedy, I couldn't help thinking repeatedly to myself that this was what Fight Club would have been like if its nameless narrator had eschewed domestic terrorism and directed his mid-life crisis energy into designer coffee mugs (which surprisingly are not available for sale online). The comparison may not be fair to either book, but they both share the same narrative catalyst of taking a corporate upper-middle class white male, introduce them to rock bottom, and have their reaction be to see if they can drill down deeper.

Kennedy's anti-hero of choice is corporate pop-culture advertising executive Matthew Harris, whose crumbling marriage, dubious health, and sudden unemployment leave him in an existential free fall that, let's be honest, he doesn't handle very well. While many of Matthew's antics are genuinely funny, his rambling internal dialogue that comprises a decent majority of the book's narration is an awe-inspiring stream-of-consciousness philosophical diatribe that volleys back and forth between genuine insight and delusional rationalizing. Matthew's journey turns out to be a spiritual one, albeit not the same as you would find in Eat, Pray, Love (which Matthew reads and repeatedly references indirectly throughout the book). Instead, Matthew embarks on more of the emotionally-stunted vision quest through a soulless cultural wasteland, but far less cynicism and nihilism than you might expect. Kennedy sows enough compassion and hope into Matthew's paranoid tirades to keep him being a sympathetic character no matter how wildly off-target his path takes him.
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smichaelwilson | 2 autres critiques | May 3, 2019 |
This was a whole lot funnier than I'd expected. Kennedy gets a job in advertising at a major record label just as the glory days of working at major music labels have waned. Everything's much less "rock'n'roll" and much more "bland corporate," but Kennedy's take on the whole thing is hilarious. The humor is deadpan and brilliant. And it's a reasonably telling peek into the music business during the clumsy transition from physical media to online.
 
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melydia | 10 autres critiques | Dec 25, 2018 |

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