Brown’s writing style is hands-down the most alienating I have ever read. I genuinely have no idea what he was trying to accomplish with this style because even my initial suspicion about his use of truncated sentences and extraordinary overuse of em-dashes was not borne out by the way he used them. I have an odious habit of turning down a page corner when I come across a passage I find meaningful or terrible. I encountered so many terrible passages in Brown’s book that I had to change my method More...

I received an unsolicited "edited galley" of She and I: A Fugue by Michael R. Brown. It claims to be a memoir of a man who evolves through his interactions with the women in his life. What that amounts to is a 280 page memoir about sex, ICQ and blogs, all written in short sentences ala Twitter.

His "observations" come off as shallow, self obsessed and childish. I got to page 120 only by skipping about every other page. There was nothing interesting to keep my atten More...

Michael shares episodes of his life. His parents were from London/England, once his mother came to San Francisco, CA (USA) to check on her dying father, she also looses her husband and Mike never sees him again. Later, we read about his first sexual experiences: masturbation and bestiality. He started to question his sexual preference: men or gay relations since he was numb to women. Sex for the first time was with a man, but he did not have any emotions only cooperation. There was another twist More...