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Title: Life as a Loser by Will Leitch, Tom Perrotta ISBN: 0-9746270-0-3 Publisher: Arriviste Press, Inc. Pub. Date: November, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.95 (21 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The voice that speaks for all us other losers
Comment: I began reading Life as a Loser online largely because my own background is similar to that of Will Leitch - amusing, somewhat geeky guy from small-town Illinois (though I'm from Danville, not Mattoon) turned urbanite (though I live in Boston, not New York) who embraces his citi-fied ways, but isn't going to let go of those Budweiser-drinking, "darn it to heck", demolition derby-attending midwestern roots. As much as I enjoy Will Leitch's well-crafted observations about the minutiae and major issues of life in general, I tune in even more so for the reflections on growing up in an atmosphere that is so different from the one I'm currently living, but still so much like home. Mr. Leitch is the voice for all of us who swore during high school that one day we were going to be so much bigger than our backwards little town, only to find ourselves wistfully recalling our years in that same town as we dress in black and zone out on the subway. Besides, the book is also damn funny.
Rating: 2
Summary: Book as a Loser
Comment: It's one thing to crystallize elements, occurances, and people from your real life into your art by reshaping, rethinking, or at least renaming them; it's another to just pick them up and drop them in a book. Although some bits were funny, this writing is too much of a string of journal entries. For truly hilarious, "real-life but not really" stories, read David Sedaris.
Rating: 1
Summary: Whingey and self-obsessed
Comment: I was hoping that I'd like this book--after all, Tom Perrotta, author of 'Election" and the recent well-reviewed "Little Children", wrote the forward. But Leitch's prose and subject are simplistic and overly self-conscious. For really good guy-lit, I'd read Nick Hornby (High Fidelity, for example).
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Title: Love Monkey : A Novel by Kyle Smith ISBN: 0060574534 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: 03 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Little Children by Tom Perrotta ISBN: 0312315716 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Booty Nomad by Scott Mebus ISBN: 1401352049 Publisher: Miramax Pub. Date: 04 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: The Wishbones by Tom Perrotta ISBN: 0425163148 Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group Pub. Date: 01 April, 1998 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs : A Low Culture Manifesto by Chuck Klosterman ISBN: 0743236009 Publisher: Scribner Book Company Pub. Date: 26 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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