“Witzelsucht, derived from the German word for ‘wit’ and ‘obsession,’ describes a medical condition ‘marked by the making of poor jokes and puns and the telling of pointless stories at which the speaker is intensely amused; a condition characteristic of frontal lobe lesions.’” Page 33.
The more you know?
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Best dedication ever.
The dedication is worth the price of the book, in itself.
Twisted take on the thriller/mystery genre, with some pointed pokes at subsets in the publishing industry.
Must be satire.
It starts with an unfinished manuscript and gathering a handful of mid-list writers on an island, so it’s essentially a locked room mystery, right? But wait, there’s more.
The characters themselves seem to resemble some standard mystery/thriller/romance tired tropes trotted out, with some banter, the dialogue, all seems to fit a pattern.
The story telling itself was a little jarring as there were interruptions, asides, flashbacks, and some of the material was engaging as another look at the seamy side of publishing.
Stayed up until four in the morning reading the last hundred pages, as in, to borrow a clichéd expression, “I just couldn’t put it down.”
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“All those early mornings and then finishing grading and class prep pretty late and feeling a bit resentful for doing lawyer hours for babysitter money.” Page 19.
And so it starts. An English teacher writing a book. Catholic High School English teacher, talk about thankless.
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“Do you know the line, ‘You bear grudges and I’m never going to forget that’?” Page 67.
Deceptively short novel, originally in German. Translated. Twisted, with a surreal sense of timing. Super tightly plotted, and enviable prose, lightly styled, concise in a manner I can only admire.
Fun.
Saw it coming but not really. If only life was like literature and made sense at the end.
Good story telling even better considering it’s in translation.
by Wolf Haas (Author), Jamie Bulloch (Translator)
Borrowed from the library, the iCarly autobiography never really grabbed me. Might not be my people, but the set-up and subsequent reviews of Half His Age intrigued me. Got a library copy, and read the first half of the novel in almost a single sitting, just as fun, puerile entertainment.
There’s something, plays to the fantasy of younger female interested in an older male, the dynamic of power in such a relationship, inappropriate that it might be.
Fiction. sometimes, fiction is more true than truth.
But the second half opened up a kind of seriousness, yet with a playful lilt, in part, with an underage narrator wrestling with adult issues.
Rich text, plot and story propelled forward with lively narrative. Thoroughly enjoyed the novel.
Really enjoyable novel, for me.