Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish : A Novel

from melissarochelle

Read from August 22 to 26, 2013 I read this aloud to my husband and cats (it made me pay more attention). We all really liked it. It's clever, through-provoking, and the book design & drawings are a fantastic addition. I had never heard of David Rakoff until people started talking about this book...

from David_David_Katzman

An elegy for himself, an ode to the capriciousness of life infused with the profound poignancy that David Rakoff died soon after he completed this work. In fact, he had cancer and knew that he was going to die while he was writing this. Which he did at the age of 47. This is a wonderfully unique ...

from Narshkite

What a wonderful little piece. I listened to the audio, read by the author, and absolutely recommend it. It is one of the few books I think would likely suffer from being read rather than heard. I went into this having no idea David Rakoff passed away just 2 weeks after recording this book and wa...

from asxz

This has been on my radar since before it came out and David Rakoff was on This American Life talking in verse. It took me a while to acquire it, just because, and then it sat for a while until I read Alexander Chee's The Queen of the Night last week and in the Acknowledgments Chee said that Rako...

from bezoar44

David Rakoff's novel in verse, published posthumously, is written mostly in anapaestic and amphibrachic tetrameter, which means it rolls along, sounding at times like Dr. Seuss for melancholy adults. Much of the verse is witty; some is awkward, but as a whole, the short book is well worth reading...