Peter Hyman

I wasn't even through the introduction before I was chuckling out loud at the wit.
But the humour soon grew tiresome.
Some of the essays were enjoyable, entertaining, but others were not. Reasonably good insights on the meterosexual trend, but DULL musings on unemployment (and I'm unemployed).
At the beginning, I thought all his self-depreciative jabs at this (audio)book were in jest, but really, they are reflective of what it actually is: the ramblings of a guy in New York City. It may be interesting from an anthropology research point of view in 50 (or more) years, but right now, not so much.
Pick and choose your essays, but don't bother reading this cover to cover.… (més)