Idiopathy
by Sam Byers
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Katherine, Daniel, and Nathan evaluate their feelings about each other in a shared world marked by such eccentricities as a mysterious cattle epidemic, an unwanted pregnancy, and a bio-domed workplace housing a perfectly engineered cornfield.Tags
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Grim book about a grim bunch of people, except the whole thing is supposed to be a comedy, and does have some funny moments. I read a review in the NYT, but methinks I didn't read it all the way through, since what I ended up with was not what I was expecting. I think I stopped reading so as not to ruin the story for myself.
Idiopathy is funny, in parts. Unfortunately, it has entirely too much going on in terms of "funny bits"--as if a bunch of SNL skits were going all at once. Since the characters are icky, I got to the end and said, "Why, oh why, did I read this?" At least I was able to get through the whole thing pretty quickly.
Finally, I'm sure Byers is trying to make a larger point with the whole cow thing as a parallel to the show more lives of his main characters, but it's a stretch. I wish at least one (of the characters) had been culled. show less
Idiopathy is funny, in parts. Unfortunately, it has entirely too much going on in terms of "funny bits"--as if a bunch of SNL skits were going all at once. Since the characters are icky, I got to the end and said, "Why, oh why, did I read this?" At least I was able to get through the whole thing pretty quickly.
Finally, I'm sure Byers is trying to make a larger point with the whole cow thing as a parallel to the show more lives of his main characters, but it's a stretch. I wish at least one (of the characters) had been culled. show less
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- Katherine; Daniel; Nathan; Angelica; Sebastian; Plum (show all 7); Keith
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- Comparatively recently, during a family function about which Katherine's mother had used the term three-line-whip, but which Katherine's sister had nevertheless somehow avoided, Katherine's mother had shown a table of attenda... (show all)nt relatives the photographs she kept in her purse.
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