Sort of moping and plotless. However, this is the only time that I have ever managed to use those words as a compliment. You follow yourself through several days worth of crappy experiences, get drunk, get high, and have a flashback of watching your mother die. That's all you get, and that's all you can ask for from this book. Grade A perfect. ( )

If you like early Bret Easton Ellis (Rules of Attraction, Less than Zero), then you'll probably enjoy this. Very fast read with entertaining, likable, hapless narrator. The use of 2d person gives the book an appropriately "shallow" feel. That said, it's a stylistic affectation, and like any affectation it can at times become tedious--it would probably have worked better in a short story. ( )

Amusing because it is written in second person.
Drug days of the 1980's ( )

I was suprised by the story's depth, and the author was successful in making me feel as worn out as the main character. Overall, however, it just felt a bit generic, perhaps because the character's battle is mostly a private matter and the results of his choices don't seem especially consequential. ( )

An amazing accomplishment - it is possible to live a character through the direct use of the second person. McInerney is genius. ( )