Jim Keeble
Autor(a) de My Fat Brother
About the Author
Image credit: Courtesy of the author
Obras por Jim Keeble
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Sexo
- male
Membros
Críticas
I enjoyed this book. The fictional narrator is Scott Barron, a successful writer, with a gorgeous girlfriend. Scott has a brother, Jes, who, while far less successful than Scott, is happily married and enjoys his life.
They love each other, as brothers do, but are not especially close. But then there is a tragedy in the family, and both of their lives start unravelling. The knock on effect is that they start blaming each other for their insecurities, and old resentments are dragged up.
Despite the subject matter, this is a humorous book, although the narrator has a tendency to pity himself, and is not as likeable as you may expect.… (mais)
They love each other, as brothers do, but are not especially close. But then there is a tragedy in the family, and both of their lives start unravelling. The knock on effect is that they start blaming each other for their insecurities, and old resentments are dragged up.
Despite the subject matter, this is a humorous book, although the narrator has a tendency to pity himself, and is not as likeable as you may expect.… (mais)
Estatísticas
- Obras
- 6
- Membros
- 136
- Popularidade
- #149,926
- Avaliação
- 2.9
- Críticas
- 2
- ISBN
- 20
The Publisher Says: Julius Miles is a mathematical genius, but he is hefty of frame, awkward with the opposite sex and struggling to bring his existence into balance. When he stumbles across the girl next door naked and dead on her Victorian tiles, he starts to unravel the one equation that’s eluded him: that of his own life. And so it is that with the most unlikely of assistants – a transsexual Cupid with a penchant for drugs – he embarks on a quest to find the truth about love, death, family and how, ultimately, you make your numbers happy.
I RECEIVED AN ARC FROM THE PUBLISHER. THANK YOU.
My Review: Try this on for size:
This is A Confederacy of Dunces plus equations, divided by Ignatius J. Reilly's nasty attitude towards others, times neurodivergent Othering plus fatphobia. There are a lot of characters. They speak, or think, in short bursts. There's a transgender woman playing matchmaker...and called a transsexual. Well, to be fair, this came out in 2012 and that was okay then.
But it just is not doing it for me at all. I am releasing the tree book into the Little Free Library as of now.… (mais)