05 - Love Monkey, by Kyle Smith, 336 pages, Harper Perennial, 2004
WHY I PICKED IT: Because I like the genre.
ELAPSED TIME: <1 day.
RATING: Meh
This is the story of Tom Farrell, in the genre of Nick Hornby... Except in that genre there is the top tier: Nick Hornby, Mike Gayle and Jonathan Tropper... and there is everybody else. And in the realm of everybody else Kyle Smith is in the bottom quartile. Kind of disappointing to be honest, here is a book that had several (actual) laugh out loud moments, many great lines... but several sections that just needed better editing. There is one point where the character writes a review of the movie Training Day... and we have to read the entire thing! :(.
Sign of a book that is "meh" and not "good"... I finished the book, went to bed, woke up 6 hours later and couldn't remember the ending... Meh.
This blog is a simple review of every book that I read... For all books I’ll tell you why I picked it, how long it took me to read it, and give it a rating (burn it, not good, meh, good, very good, and required reading). I ask (encourage?) all readers of my blog to post their thoughts of any of the books in my comments :). Thanks!
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