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The ideas are good, but the book is badly written. the jokes are not funny, the themes are too dependent on the year this was written in (shortly before Bush's reelection) and the writing jumps here and there without making any solid conclusions. Stupid White Men was a lot better and funnier, and in any case, I'd rather stick to Moore's movies.

The world did not need a cheap imitation of the interior monologue novels of the 1920's, which has, oh! ah! the great originality of having three protagonists, and ooohhh! aaaaahhh! many gay and lesbian characters. This is a watered down, easy version of Virginia Woolf's "Mrs Dalloway".

But watch the movie, for once it is better than the book.

I read this book in a mad hurry to reach the end of each story, so I don't have a well-formed impression other than they fact that it's very sketchy and episodic, especially the first two books. The setting is at times even sordid (what would you expect of the Bronx during the Depression) but the most interestin thing about the themes is that there is a basic tenderness and compassion in the treatment of the characters that seems odd considering their flaws and miseries.

It does have a feature that I love in a comic: it could not be told in any other form. The pace is too hectic for a "normal" book and too clever for a movie.

The truth is, I haven't finished this book, but I have been fighting with it for two months and that is more than enough. I don't know what was wrong with it, if the format (it was a cheap edition with a small typeface and no margins), the language, the plot or what. I couldn't make any sense of it.

This book is recommended to fans of biographies, travel narratives, and anyone who has liked other Helene Hanff books, even though it is the least interesting of her autobiographical books.

This book is a collection of essays, varied enough to give a good picture of the consequences of women's emigration to work in the invisible jobs that involve caring for people.

The style is academic but accesible, and the content very is depressing but enlightening.

I really enjoyed this book, but then I'm biased because I love everything by Neil Gaiman. It has a very absurd sense of humor and a twisted plot. I don't see as the children's / young adult book it has been marketed as.

I have only started this book and it doesn't sound too promising. I like the characters, as they are very complex and active and do interesting things, but I'm not enjoying the slow pace of the narration.

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It took me forever to finish the book. It's OK, it picks up a little bit after the first half. It's more an excuser to reflect on the nature of "reality vs. copies" and how people tend to prefer "improved" copies of stuff to the real thing.

I'm so boring, I always give the same rating. This book is exactly in the same style as "the Hitchhiker's guide", but it makes the story a little bit clearer. And the dinner at the restaurant is just hilarious.