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Karl

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  • Don't Get Too Comfortable (Unabridged Selections)

    • UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 36 mins)
    • By David Rakoff
    • Narrated By David Rakoff
    Overall
    (571)
    Performance
    (183)
    Story
    (185)

    David Rakoff's bestselling collection of autobiographical essays, Fraud, established him as one of today's funniest and most insightful writers. Now, in Don't Get Too Comfortable, Rakoff moves from the personal to the public, journeying into the land of unchecked plenty that is contemporary America. Rarely have greed, vanity, selfishness, and vapidity been so mercilessly and wittily skewered.

    Nell Huntworth says: "More wonderful David Rakoff"
    "Not so much"
    Overall

    I had a hard time getting past the purple prose and the arch reading style.

    Possibly the book may be better in print, but there is still the flood of adverbs, adjectives and insipid similes to content with...

    1 of 3 people found this review helpful

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