Closing Time: A Memoir (Audiobook)

from gaskella

I have enjoyed all the Joe Queenan books I've read, particularly The Unkindest Cut: How a Hatchet-Man Critic Made His Own $7,000 Movie and Put It All on His Credit Card. He's a journalist and author, writing for the New York Times and The Guardian amongst others, where his acerbic wit and eloquen...

from gaskella

I have enjoyed all the Joe Queenan books I've read, particularly The Unkindest Cut: How a Hatchet-Man Critic Made His Own $7,000 Movie and Put It All on His Credit Card. He's a journalist and author, writing for the New York Times and The Guardian amongst others, where his acerbic wit and eloquen...

from TimBazzett

At first I found Joe Queenan's memoir, CLOSING TIME, just a bit off-putting. Not because it had such an edgy undertone of anger and bitterness, which it does, and with good reason, but because of his writing style. Queenan's style seemed florid, overwrought, and maybe just a bit too, well, he see...

from michigantrumpet

This is a review of the unabridged Audiobook version. Perhaps Queenan's humor was lost in the audiobook version. His autobiographical rendering of his youth in Philadephia was unremittingly bleak, dark and depressing. While I appreciated Queenan's beautifully wrought prose, I couldn't continue th...

from chrystal

I enjoyed this very chewy memoir. Especially enlightening for me was his view of poverty, that it is a state of mind as much as it is an economic status. I had never read about poverty in such a forthright, true manner- it was a wow moment for me.