Kyle SmithCritiques

I picked up this book because it was hailed to be the next best thing after HIGH FIDELITY but it wasn't. Not really.

Sure, the loser-boy fumbles his way through several simultaneous relationships while in a dead-end job and with slacker friends who do nothing to inspire him, but Kyle Smith does not have the same sparkling wit as Nick Hornby does.

There were some highlights in the book: the peek view on men's view of relationships (we cheat on wonderful women because relationship for guys are like a buffet dinner to a starving man and he must have everything offered whether he likes it or not) to a guy's reluctant-to-admit-even-to-himself state of his job (I guess I will die in this cubicle if I keep doing what I have been doing) to a guy's commitment-phobic state of grace in the face of true love (I will always remember how she wanted to be with me--and that's all) even after he loses The One.

But, over all, it was less than HIGH FIDELITY. Not a bad attempt at lad-lit, but not the classic it was reported to be.

It is a short, fun and quite light novel. In the blurbs, someone calls the author the 'male Candace Bushnell' and the novel the 'male Sex and the City'. That, it must certainly is not. But it's still funny and makes you smile a lot. The city does indeed feature a lot but it never feels an integral character as in Bushnell's novels.½

A New York tabloid writer/editor tells his story of love and lack of. Some interesting incites but just doesn't seem to go anywhere.