{"id":1457,"date":"2012-04-25T05:00:17","date_gmt":"2012-04-25T10:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chaosisafriendofmine.com\/?p=1457"},"modified":"2012-04-24T22:15:40","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T03:15:40","slug":"book-review-ladies-and-gentlemen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chaosisafriendofmine.com\/?p=1457","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: Ladies and Gentlemen"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Ladies<\/a>Ladies and Gentlemen<\/a> by Adam Ross<\/a><\/p>\n

My rating: 3.5 of 5 stars<\/a><\/p>\n

Publisher’s description:<\/p>\n

Following his celebrated debut novel, <\/em>Mr. Peanut, Adam Ross presents a stunning collection of stories about brothers, loners, lovers, and young people navigating lives full of good intentions, misunderstandings, and obscured motives.<\/em><\/p>\n

A hotshot young lawyer, burdened by years of guilt and resentment, comes to the aid of his irresponsible kid brother, only to realize he’s a pawn in a treacherous scheme. A lonely professor, frequently regaled with outrageous tales by the office handyman, suddenly fears he’s being asked to abet a murderous fugitive.\u00a0 A man down on his luck closes in on a mysterious job offer while doing a good turn for his fragile neighbor, but his efforts backfire in a terrifically surreal – and hilarious – manner. And an enterprising adolescent uses his brief career as a child actor to fulfill the crush he has on a friend’s older sister.<\/em><\/p>\n

Laced through with glimmers of redemption and a refreshing combination of warmth and cynicism, these noirish narratives have a youthful energy that belies their hard-won wisdom, and together they showcase one of our truly essential new writers.<\/em><\/p>\n

I normally don’t care too much for short stories but I loved Adam Ross’s Mr. Peanut<\/em> so much that I had to pick up his collection of short stories. These stories were haunting like Mr. Peanut<\/em>. They reminded me of Twilight Zone<\/em> episodes because most of them ended with a dark moral and seemed eerie. I enjoyed most of them but was left wanting more. I thought some of them ended too abruptly.<\/p>\n

I may just not be a short story person and I also think I had my hopes up way too high for this collection after reading Mr. Peanut<\/em>. I think that’s why I felt unsatisfied these stories. I think they were good, just not as good as Mr. Peanut<\/em>. If you haven’t read either, read this one first so your expectations aren’t over the top like mine were.
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Buy this book at:
\nAmazon<\/a>\"\" Kindle Store<\/a>\"\"<\/p>\n

(I received this book courtesy of the Amazon Vine program.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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