<![CDATA[Indecision]]>

false <![CDATA[Indecision]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168029818m/29425.jpg 29425 14 Benjamin Kunkel’s brilliantly comic debut novel concerns one of the central maladies of our time–a pathological indecision that turns abundance into an affliction and opportunity into a curse. Dwight B. Wilmerding is only twenty-eight, but he’s having a midlife crisis. Of course, living a dissolute, dorm like existence in a tiny apartment and working in tech support at the pharmaceutical giant Pfizer are not especially conducive to wisdom. And a few sessions of psychoanalysis conducted by his sister have distinctly failed to help with his biggest problem: a chronic inability to make up his mind. Encouraged by one of his roommates to try an experimental pharmaceutical meant to banish indecision, Dwight jumps at the chance (not without some meditation on the hazards of jumping) and swallows the first fateful pill. And when all at once he is “pfired” from Pfizer and invited to a rendezvous in exotic Ecuador with the girl of his long-ago prep-school dreams, he finds himself on the brink of a new life. The trouble–well, one of the troubles–is that Dwight can’t decide if the pills are working. Deep in the jungles of the Amazon, in the foreign country of a changed outlook, his would-be romantic escape becomes a hilarious journey into unbidden responsibility and unwelcome knowledge. How to affirm happiness without living in constant denial of the ways of the world? How to commit, and to what? At once funny and poignant, gentle and outrageous, finely intelligent and proudly silly, Indecision rings with a voice of great energy and originality, while its deeper inquiries reflect the concerns and style of a generation. From the Hardcover edition. 1581815 2005 Indecision total:1283|5:0|4:2|3:10|2:6|1:2| 1283 3646 1664 240 1 17 false false Mon Mar 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 27 08:37:31 -0700 2008 Tue Mar 24 16:15:23 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 5 false false Tue Jul 22 18:09:37 -0700 2008 Sat Jul 26 15:10:09 -0700 2008 once finished: Well it has become pretty clichéd to say, but yes, it took me about fifty pages of this relatively slim volume to get over my instinctual hatred of this successful young (my age when published) writer, and just get over myself and enjoy the book. Which, shit you guys, is really fucki...more...]]> 1 5 false false Tue Jun 17 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 16 19:40:47 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 17 23:57:01 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 3 false true Thu Mar 27 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Dec 17 12:46:14 -0800 2007 Fri Mar 28 06:46:28 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 2 false false Fri May 16 11:24:01 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 02 16:55:32 -0700 2008
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