Why Are You So Sad?, (Paperback)

from browner56

Raymond Champs is seriously depressed. As a not-quite-young-anymore catalog illustrator for an IKEA-like furniture store chain, he spends his days promoting products for a company he doesn't believe in and his nights at home with a wife from whom he has grown increasingly distant. Wondering wheth...

from Loried

This was a very quick read, but not really my cup of tea. Despite that, I was engaged enough to read the very short book pretty much in one sitting. The characters at the workplace and the woman at the end all seemed very unrealistic. The main character reminded me a little of Chance in "Being Th...

from westcott

I thought this started strong. it had some clever satire of corporate life and modern life in general and early on in managed to balance having a narrator who was sees the world as hopeless with other characters who question that point of view so that we can see the narrator's point, but aren't f...

from Sean191

A few years ago, I read a book called "Apathy and other small victories" - the book was laugh-out-loud funny, but I would feel a little horrible laughing at the things that were making me laugh.... This book seemed similar to a point and I think it was a dark comedy, but the main character while ...

from princemuchao

A very short first-time novel about a man who is desperately fighting an increasing sense of the meaninglessness of life. He turns to other people in the form of an Emotional Questionnaire to see if it is just himself or if the human species is doomed as he fears. I find it hard to review books f...