Teddy Wayne

I appreciate that the author didn't make this a typical story where you're meant to laugh at the person coming to another country and learning about it. There was sympathy and it was lovely and still funny and moving. But. The last line of the book seems to have turned everything backward, and I don't know what to make of it as it doesn't seem fit with the rest of the mood. It could either be brutally realistic and not giving me a happy ending, or... something else, I guess, but in my mind that's a very unhappy ending that undoes all the discovery the character had and reduces it to nothing more than a dream-like experience, soon to be forgotten.… (plus d'informations)

Kind of rough - watch a man deteriorate one failure at a time, all the while listening to him blow kneejerk liberal sanctimony at every turn. Paul's been demoted from senior lecturer to adjunct. His daughter is turning 12 and checking out of their relationship. He has to move in with his 80-something mother - and she's started watching the fictional stand-in for Fox News. And then things get worse!

The short chapters kept me turning (swiping) pages.

I didn't much like one of the subplots where he starts boinking a high-level employee at the faux Fox News, pretending to be a conservative misplaced in academia, in order to gain access... to what, for what? But it turns out to be key.… (plus d'informations)