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Andrew Sean Greer

Start date: July 15, 2018

Finish date: August 1, 2018

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Mar 01, 2019 Jenny (Reading Envy) rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: pulitzer, read2019, own

I really forced my way through this one and wouldn't have except that it won the Pulitzer Prize. I should have followed my instincts.

I ended up feeling like the author came up with the joke at the end first, and couldn't let it go, and backtracked as a thought experiment to see if he could write a novel around that joke, and that is why we all ended up reading it in 2018.

A few moments made me chuckle, closer to how I react to British humor, but I'm perplexed as to the award. Perhaps the judges ...more

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May 02, 2018 Kate rated it really liked it

I jumped on reading this after I saw that it won the Pulitzer Prize and I am so glad I did. I thoroughly enjoyed this funny, sweet, sad, sentimental book. Arthur Less is approaching 50. The man he loves is marrying another man. To get away from his grief, he sets off on a round-the-world trip paid for by appearances at literary festivals, readings, etc. often with hilarious results. Please read this book. It was one of my most enjoyable reading experiences in a long time.

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Nov 25, 2022 Loretta rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: queer-reading, audiobooks

This was so my kind of book. A generosity of spirit, a compassion for this Arthur Less character that comes across in such an interesting structure. We see, when we're seeing Less through his own eyes, his bumbling, failed, never-enough self; but there's this other narrator voice that comes through once in a while (I won't spoil the reveal) that gives us Less through the eyes of someone who loves him - and we see the overlap, how both can be true but the eyes of love are somehow more true. That ...more

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