*Layali*'s Reviews > Calypso
Calypso
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bookshelves: genre-nonfiction, stand-alone, rat-2018-owls, terribad, goodreads-choice
Jul 25, 2018
bookshelves: genre-nonfiction, stand-alone, rat-2018-owls, terribad, goodreads-choice
Unpopular opinion here.
Hypocritical, pretentious, and underwhelming. Best words to describe this book.
It took me so long to get through this short selection of essays. I heard amazing things about it, and that it was hilarious. I had a couple chuckles, but overall I was completely and utterly BORED. I loathed picking this book up, and I considered DNF'ing it at 50 pages. I should have.
It's literally a bind up of a bunch of random thoughts by the author, most of which come off as dejected and distasteful in my opinion. Some of the content could be interpreted as offensive to some readers, and there is a lot of political talk in which the author is very clear on his opinions which again comes off as pretentious and superior.
This whole thing just comes off as an "I can write whatever I want and still sell books" theme. I have not despised a book so much all year, and I'm so glad that I didn't pick this for one of my BOTM picks. I probably would have set it on fire.
Hypocritical, pretentious, and underwhelming. Best words to describe this book.
It took me so long to get through this short selection of essays. I heard amazing things about it, and that it was hilarious. I had a couple chuckles, but overall I was completely and utterly BORED. I loathed picking this book up, and I considered DNF'ing it at 50 pages. I should have.
It's literally a bind up of a bunch of random thoughts by the author, most of which come off as dejected and distasteful in my opinion. Some of the content could be interpreted as offensive to some readers, and there is a lot of political talk in which the author is very clear on his opinions which again comes off as pretentious and superior.
This whole thing just comes off as an "I can write whatever I want and still sell books" theme. I have not despised a book so much all year, and I'm so glad that I didn't pick this for one of my BOTM picks. I probably would have set it on fire.
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Reading Progress
June 2, 2018
– Shelved as:
to-read
June 2, 2018
– Shelved
June 2, 2018
– Shelved as:
genre-nonfiction
June 2, 2018
– Shelved as:
stand-alone
July 1, 2018
– Shelved as:
rat-2018-owls
July 21, 2018
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Started Reading
July 21, 2018
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20.69%
"I’ve just suffered through 54 pages of this pretentious, hypocritical rambling of a book. Is it even worth it to continue? I feel like the odd duck here with everyone giving this such high reviews."
page
54
July 24, 2018
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84.29%
"Let’s see how long it takes me to finish these last 40 pages. I’m dragging my feet through this one."
page
220
July 25, 2018
– Shelved as:
terribad
July 25, 2018
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Finished Reading
December 4, 2018
– Shelved as:
goodreads-choice
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Jul 25, 2018 06:57AM
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Glad I'm not the only one who struggled with this!
Yeah, I just didn't enjoy it. There were a few chuckles, but not enough to make up for everything else. I would have been better off just not finishing it instead of wasting my time and forcing myself to read it.
Hi, Golnaz! Thanks for your comment! I've never read Sedaris before this book, but I will definitely not be reading anything else from him. I'm glad you liked his previous books though! Hopefully his next one will be more of your taste. =)
I'm glad I'm not the only one! I know that I wanted to DNF this multiple times when I was reading it. It was a STRUGGLE for sure.
Exactly! By the time I got done reading it, I was just like... what was the point?