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Summary: Plain, Normal, and Funny
Review: After sticking with this book for it's entirety, I have to review it by saying I have no idea what the point is and why anyone would bother to publsh it. I hold a doctoral degree; maybe an inferior one, but this book totally baffles me. What is the point?
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Summary: Pass...
Review: I was dissappointed with this book. I found the lead character more annoying than engaging. Aside from a few light-hearted moments of comedy, the story didn't really seem to be going anywhere and after enduring page after page of wishy-washy characters and episodes, all I was left with was an overwhelming sense of "so what?". I would advise anyone looking for a good laugh to give this book a miss. Based on the reviews I read for Wilcox's other novels, I was expecting a lot more than what I ended up reading.
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Summary: Pass...
Review: I was dissappointed with this book. I found the lead character more annoying than engaging. Aside from a few light-hearted moments of comedy, the story didn't really seem to be going anywhere and after enduring page after page of wishy-washy characters and episodes, all I was left with was an overwhelming sense of "so what?". I would advise anyone looking for a good laugh to give this book a miss. Based on the reviews I read for Wilcox's other novels, I was expecting a lot more than what I ended up reading.
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Summary: Rebuttal to Colorado Springs
Review: In defense of Mr. Maloney, add me to the "What the hellwas that?" club. To quote Frank McCourt, "........those russian novels, where after 400 pages, the peasant commits suicide, and you wish he'd done it on page 4?" There is not one character that I felt any liking for. Our hero is a wuss, his life is pathetic, and everyone around him is despicable. However, at the end of the book, he is still a wuss, his life still pathetic, those around him are still wretched, and two completely unimportant characters shack up and throw a housewarming party. In fact, the suicide-on-page-400 would have been the highlight of this book. I did not get that pleasure. This is Seinfeld in print. Which I find equally un-funny and pointless. My apologies, Mr. Wilcox. But I have a feeling that this book was for your own amusement, and not that of your readers. My friend had a joke like that, where after 45 minutes of build-up one came to realize that there is no punch line. It just goes on and on....
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Summary: Rebuttal to Colorado Springs
Review: Question: what's Frank McCourt, Russian novels, or Jerry Seinfeld got to do with Wilcox? Answer: nothing.
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Summary: one of the best books of the year
Review: THis charming book made me smile. James Wilcox writes in a fluid, beautiful manner and his book undoubtedly is one of the best i have read in a long, long time. I am so please i got an advanced copy and got to read this treasure. Go Mr. Wilcox!!!
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Summary: Plain, Normal, and Funny
Review: Wilcox's style is clear, his tone understated, and his sense of fun outrageous. This book perhaps fails to equal Modern Baptists, Miss Undine's Living Room, or Polite Sex. However, even average Wilcox is satisfying. Who can take seriously the previous reader's one-star review (Maloney)? He says he has a doctorate, yet he misspells "publish" and misuses an apostrophe and a semi-colon, all in the span of a few lines. His doctorate evidently wasn't in the field of English. But enough cat-fighting. If you haven't read any James Wilcox, you're in for a treat. Read all the Wilcox novels you can lay your hands on...and you don't even need a doctoral degree.
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