Michael Rips
Auteur de Pasquale's Nose: Idle Days in an Italian Town
A propos de l'auteur
Michael Rips is a 5th generation Nebraska native. He currently practices criminal litigation & lives at the Chelsea Hotel in New York City. This is his first book. (Bowker Author Biography)
Œuvres de Michael Rips
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Nebraska, USA
- Études
- Oxford University
- Professions
- Law Clerk, United States Supreme Court
Criminal Litigation
Membres
Critiques
The Golden Flea: A Story of Obsession and Collecting par Michael Rips
Readable, but slight, and about a group of people whom I found far less engaging than did the author, Michael Rips. Eccentricity or quirk aren't inherently interesting. I also found it difficult to empathise with a guy whose major life issue seemed to be that he had too much free time and money to spend on buying over-priced flea market crap to put in his $5k/month Manhattan apartment. Oh to have those kinds of problems and a book deal to write about them.
Learned something new. There are flea markets, art galleries and the auction houses. They all are hoping to make money. But there's also the love for searching and collecting interesting pieces of art, objects and furniture. The author gives the reader a glimpse with his stories.
Weird, bizarre - call it what you will - Rips' deadpan delivery is just a tad bit too clinical and impassive. About his family!? Then where is the emotion? I like the form this book takes and the way it is non-linear, but it has way too many characters that just get mentioned in passing - what's the point of bringing in all these tangential characters that just confuse the reader?
I read this boo, borrowedk from the library, in April 2006. This year I received a copy through my Paperbackswap account. I decided to reread it slowly. I placed it in our bathroom and read it only a few minutes a day.
I was curious to know if I would enjoy it as much as I previously had.
Michael Rips was not particularly close to his father. After his father died Michael happened upon a photo of a naked black woman in his father's things. He decided he hadn't known his father well enough.He decided he had to try to find out who the woman was and how his father had been involved in her life.
That part of the story is a somewhat touching one, really. The thing is that Michael is a story-teller, and a pretty good rambler. The first time I read the book I kind of enjoyed that I guess. This time through I just wasn't nearly as enamored. I think I've matured a lot in my reading style over the years. We all surely hope to do that. I love memoir and this title certainly falls into that genre, at least in part. I generally enjoy a bit of self-discovery too but Rips is a bit holier-than-thou in the way he draws analogies. I enjoy a bit of fun in a story too. I think Rips goes too far in both directions though. He can't find a happy medium. In the earliest parts of the book he includes one story that is simply there just for its shock value, nothing more. I didn't like that. Most readers, I think, wouldn't.
I was glad to be reminded the identity of the naked lady but I'm not so thrilled that I reread this book. Today, I wouldn't recommend it to most people and can only give it about a 2.5 stars.… (plus d'informations)
I was curious to know if I would enjoy it as much as I previously had.
Michael Rips was not particularly close to his father. After his father died Michael happened upon a photo of a naked black woman in his father's things. He decided he hadn't known his father well enough.He decided he had to try to find out who the woman was and how his father had been involved in her life.
That part of the story is a somewhat touching one, really. The thing is that Michael is a story-teller, and a pretty good rambler. The first time I read the book I kind of enjoyed that I guess. This time through I just wasn't nearly as enamored. I think I've matured a lot in my reading style over the years. We all surely hope to do that. I love memoir and this title certainly falls into that genre, at least in part. I generally enjoy a bit of self-discovery too but Rips is a bit holier-than-thou in the way he draws analogies. I enjoy a bit of fun in a story too. I think Rips goes too far in both directions though. He can't find a happy medium. In the earliest parts of the book he includes one story that is simply there just for its shock value, nothing more. I didn't like that. Most readers, I think, wouldn't.
I was glad to be reminded the identity of the naked lady but I'm not so thrilled that I reread this book. Today, I wouldn't recommend it to most people and can only give it about a 2.5 stars.… (plus d'informations)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 4
- Membres
- 274
- Popularité
- #84,603
- Évaluation
- 3.5
- Critiques
- 10
- ISBN
- 22
- Langues
- 3