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Disquiet, Please!: More Humor Writing from The New Yorker
Henry Finder, David Remnick
3.36 AVERAGE
5 reviews for:
Disquiet, Please!: More Humor Writing from The New Yorker
Henry Finder, David Remnick
3.36 AVERAGE
relaxing
slow-paced
I know that humor often doesn’t age well but was surprised at just how little I enjoyed the Thurber, SJ Perelman, and Woody Allen pieces.There are several pieces I remember enjoying elsewhere-Calvin Trillin’s piece on the San Gennaro festival, Susan Orleans’s piece about the show dog, the Sedaris piece about being an aspiring art collector — and those were ok. But there wasn’t an audible chuckle in the book, and I am definitely an audible chuckler.
Something that wouldn’t have occurred to me back in the day is how frustratingly white and male the NYer is. As far as I know, there were zero items in this collection by not-white people. There was just a sprinkling of women in this large book. The lack of demographic variety is extra strange for a magazine headquartered in and with the name of one of the most diverse cities in the US.
Something that wouldn’t have occurred to me back in the day is how frustratingly white and male the NYer is. As far as I know, there were zero items in this collection by not-white people. There was just a sprinkling of women in this large book. The lack of demographic variety is extra strange for a magazine headquartered in and with the name of one of the most diverse cities in the US.
Really, I give this 3.5 stars. There were a large number of pieces in here I didn’t love, a good number I found nice but unmemorable, and a few I absolutely loved. I think my favorite was probably Wile-E-Coyote suing the Acme company.
Good book for picking up here and there - that’s why it took me so long to read. I read one every few days in between other things.
Also unrelated: it’s creepy how many references to the current president of the United States there were and how some of them were predictions that came true. Yikes.
Good book for picking up here and there - that’s why it took me so long to read. I read one every few days in between other things.
Also unrelated: it’s creepy how many references to the current president of the United States there were and how some of them were predictions that came true. Yikes.
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
DNF. just can't get into it at this length. There are bits that certainly are LOL but not enough. So many pieces are funny for only a paragraph, and then the joke is over.