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The Funniest Book I Have Read in an Embarrassing Place
I was on a flight to Boston when I started Less. By the third chapter I was doing that thing where you try to suppress laughter in a quiet cabin and the effort makes you look stranger than the laughter would have. Andrew Sean Greer's Pulitzer winner is about Arthur Less, a minor novelist who accepts every international literary invitation he receives in order to avoid attending his former partner's wedding. The jokes are real and the sadness underneath them is realer.


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Recommending this to everyone who is in their mid-forties

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He is not a bad man, and he is not a good man. He is Arthur Less.


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Reading Less
5 Funniest section
4 Sadness arrives
4 Vulnerable
5 Fully earned

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Do you think literary novels can be genuinely funny without losing their depth?
Yes and Less proves it
Yes but it is very rare to pull off well
Mostly no, comedy and literary fiction rarely coexist
I have not thought about it in those terms before