Bream Gives Me Hiccups (Hardcover) by Jesse Eisenberg

from fhudnell

This collection of short stories started out well, but then got spottier as it progressed. I liked part one, consisting of restaurant reviews by a 9 year old boy. He was amazingly perceptive about relationships. I also liked all of the stories in the next two sections of the book - Family and His...

from abycats

Promising effort but I feel like I was being hit over the head whenever a significant point was being made. Would try this author again.

from RandyMetcalfe

If you've ever stumbled across a humorous piece on McSweeney's or in The New Yorker with the by-line "Jesse Eisenberg" and wondered whether that might be the Jesse Eisenberg you've seen in The Social Network or failed to see in Richard Ayoade's The Double, then this book will set the record strai...

from LisCarey

I had modest expectations for this book; it's a collection of short stories of the genre that thinks it isn't a genre, literary fiction. Very often, literary fiction seems to operate on the premise that because the world is familiar and real, the behavior of the people doesn't have to make sense....

from Ellie.Pelto

"Bream Gives Me Hiccups" is a collection of stories written by actor and playwright Jesse Eisenberg (Zombieland, The Social Network). Filled with stories both long and short, Eisenberg's book will make you think, cringe, and laugh. In one lengthy story, footnote-laden notes from psycho college fr...