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Bezig met laden... De avonturen van een licht perverse schrijverdoor Jonathan Ames
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Perhaps all of Jonathan Ames’ problems–and the genesis of this hilarious book–can be traced back to the late onset of his puberty. After all it can’t be easy to be sixteen with a hairless “undistinguishable from that of a five year old’s.” This wonderfully entertaining memoir is a touching and humorous look at life in New York City. But this is life for an author who can proclaim “my first sexual experience was rather old-fashioned: it was with a prostitute”–an author who can talk about his desire to be a model for the Hair Club for Men and about meeting his son for the first time. Often insightful, sometimes tender, always witty and self-deprecating, What’s Not to Love? is an engaging memoir from one of our most funny, most daring writers. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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I read this in the bathtub while drinking gin late at night and I would recommend that as it seems perfect. Ames talks about being Jewish, balding, transvestism, fetishes and exhibitionism, traveling, alcoholism, delayed puberty, flatulence-pretty much everything and one can imagine that, if you know Ames in real life, you'll definitely end up in one of his stories. It's not life changing to read his work but it's thoroughly enjoyable all the same and somehow it's also comforting..this honesty...this ability of Ames to reveal everything even if it makes him look perverse or incompetent in any way.
I will refrain from posting a ton of quotes..most of them are witty but personal at the same time which makes them something you'll just have to read for yourself as a whole vs. a part of a whole but I really liked a couple things even separated including:
pg. 153, "I stood by the phone with the box of my son's toys, waiting like a tragic fool. I was utterly alone. Something out of a Flannery O'Connor story was going to happen to me. A serial killer was going to tell me I'd be a good man if there was a gun to my head my whole life."
pg. 263 "Venice is the most melancholy, beautiful, and surreal city in the world. It provokes me into yearning for romance. When I was first there in 1984 as a dreamy twenty-year old, I swore that I would only return with someone I loved. I failed to keep my vow. I came with someone I have mixed emotions about-myself-but I'd like to make that vow again, though it is pathetic." ( )