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Sam Lipsyte

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The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2002 (2002) — Col·laborador — 596 exemplars
Things I've Learned From Women Who've Dumped Me (2008) — Col·laborador — 360 exemplars
The Best American Short Stories 2011 (2011) — Col·laborador — 350 exemplars
McSweeney's Issue 22: Three Books Held Within By Magnets (2007) — Col·laborador — 335 exemplars
The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories (2004) — Col·laborador — 262 exemplars
The Best of McSweeney's {complete} (1800) — Col·laborador — 143 exemplars
Four Letter Word: New Love Letters (2007) — Col·laborador — 136 exemplars
Burned Children of America (2001) — Col·laborador — 121 exemplars
Read Hard: Five Years of Great Writing from the Believer (2009) — Col·laborador — 79 exemplars
Full Frontal Fiction: The Best of Nerve.com (2000) — Col·laborador — 72 exemplars
Jewish Jocks: An Unorthodox Hall of Fame (2012) — Col·laborador — 54 exemplars
An Uncertain Inheritance: Writers on Caring for Family (2007) — Col·laborador — 43 exemplars
A Manner of Being: Writers on Their Mentors (2015) — Col·laborador — 12 exemplars
The New Yorker Science Fiction Issue 2012, June 4 & 11 (2012) — Col·laborador — 2 exemplars

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Black, black humor. Can't wait to get home and read more.
 
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monicaberger | Hi ha 39 ressenyes més | Jan 22, 2024 |
I figured this would be a good one to read right before my high school reunion, right? The premise is a loser-ish guy (nicknamed "Teabag" from a gross locker room incident) writing really literary, intense "updates" to his high school alumni bulletin. The writing is just awesomely smart and funny, but also dark and weird. There is very little plot holding the book together, but it all culminates in one sick, strange high school reunion or "Togethering," as it's called.

Things that stick out in my mind from this book: Lewis AKA Teabag has a recurring dream about a champion masturbation artist. Lewis' best friend Gary lives on money from suing his therapist for making him think his parents molested him as a child. The former high school principal, Fontana, has bondage-type sex with a woman whose husband is trying to kill him with a mace. The mace-toting husband is also a drug dealer and Gary's AA sponsor. Lewis' ex-girlfriend is in love with her film star brother. Lewis earns his meager living writing fake facts for a cola industry journal.

If I had to subtitle this book, I think "The American Nightmare" might work.
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LibrarianDest | Hi ha 21 ressenyes més | Jan 3, 2024 |
This is the first time I’ve read Lipsyte so I was not prepared for the number of flaws his characters have. Usually, a flawed character makes a story more realistic but in the book ‘The Fun Parts’ I feel like his characters are just a little too flawed and I kept wondering why these characters are able to stay in a normal society and wondering why they weren’t just locked up in an institution. It was because of this that I found the book hard to read and I had to struggle through just to finish. I actually started reading this as soon as I’ve gotten but just took me just until this month to actually finish

This does not mean the book was a complete disaster as I did actually enjoy the first couple of stories. The first three stores; ‘The Climber Room’, ‘The Dungeon Master’ and ‘The Deniers’ were very good and I found myself wishing for longer stories with these characters. I feel most of the stories started abruptly and also ended abruptly and I was left slightly confused on some of them.
This book will not be on my bookshelf very long and I think I will be donating it to the local library.
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latteslipsticklit | Hi ha 7 ressenyes més | Nov 16, 2023 |
Starts with some very sad, but brilliant short stories. Then it moves to the very funny stuff. The story about the male doula may be the funniest short story I have ever read.
 
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Mcdede | Hi ha 7 ressenyes més | Jul 19, 2023 |

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Obres
16
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15
Membres
2,077
Popularitat
#12,370
Valoració
½ 3.5
Ressenyes
92
ISBN
64
Llengües
6
Preferit
4

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