Heather's review
The Learners: A Novel
by Chip Kidd
Heather's review
The Learners: A Novel by Chip Kidd
Heather's review
rating:
I was very excited to read this book...and then stalled out. It took me three weeks to finish this when the first book took me that many days. It doesn't have the same momentum that The Cheese Monkeys does, and while I loved seeing Happy at an ad agency (Winter's ad agency!), I had a harder time identifying with his internal struggles this go-round. The writing is less polished -- significantly choppier and more abrupt -- and devices which worked in the last book (the use of assignments as a way to divide up time) didn't in this book (the messages from Content). Chip Kidd has a lot of interesting things to say about form vs. content, but I don't think this was the right vehicle.
Also, this man has no idea how to end a goddamn novel.
Also, this man has no idea how to end a goddamn novel.
