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Description of how it feels like to have one's balls kicked was hilarious!

I thought I was gonna finish it but I got sidetracked and now I'm out of time. I was loving it but now I'm mostly just liking it but, it was still a good read, a worthwhile buy considering it cost me $5 and I am interested in seeing the movie. (if only for the crazy incredible cast).

To me, this reads more like a movie that was written into a book. I know the truth is the opposite. The digressions are a little long winded but I'm enjoying it enough anyway.

Love Tropper's writing style!

Description of sex in a marriage is spot on!

Loving the dark humor and palpable tension. Some reviewers felt that the author was trying too hard to be funny but, I think it's a decent balance of self-aware reflection and self-loathing mixed with off the rails digression.

I think I'm enjoying it because I can picture Jason Bateman narrating the story in my head. I haven't seen the movie but I probably will make a point to watch it after I finish the book.

This book is so refreshing at times because it portrays a family that is completely dysfunctional, but also a family that will always have each other's back (roughly). It also enhances the reader to feel so many emotions sometimes it's completely unbearable. Great read!

Not bad.

At least I'm getting a lot of reading done.

Tropper is masterfully telling the story with so much wit and humor!

Childhood seems so permanent.....then one day it's over, and you're shoveling dirt onto your father's coffin, stunned at the impermanence of everything.

This book is STELLAR. Wow. Haven't read writing like this in a long time. Can't wait to read the second half tomorrow.

We knew marriage would be difficult in the same way that we knew there were starving children in Africa. It was a tragic fact but worlds away from our reality. We were going to be different. Same can be said about parenthood.

I so recommend this book! It is so hilarious and entertaining how one family can be so twisted and dirfted apart.

Dad's dead.

Waiting to see the movie already :D

I love his style of writing so far. Fave quote of chapter 3 "We knew marriage could be difficult in the same way that we knew there were starving children in Africa."

"Even under the best of circumstances, there's just something so damn tragic about growing up."

"Is that the Man Up guy in there?

"That's him," I say.

"Which one of y'all hit him?"

"Nobody hit him, he just fell," Phillip says.

The guard smiles widely and extends his hand. "Shake my hand, man. I hate that loudmouth motherfucker."

Phillip shrugs and shakes his hand. "And if you hadn't pulled me off of him when you did,I'd have really kicked his ass."

HAHA!

Well then...

In my family, we don't so much air our grievances as wallow in them. Anger and resentment are cumulative. "

Childhood feels so permanent, like it's the entire world, and then one day it's over and you're shoveling wet dirt onto your father's coffin, stunned at the impermanence of everything.

got distracted by FrostIron fanfiction

Pretty good book about a dysfunctional family trying to implement the custom of shiva. Very much American Judaism.

Holy cow. Well. I totally called the Alice thing. The scene setting up the Hebrew school event is funny & we finally understand the Rottweiler, Paul, Judd issues. The things Judd sabotages are funny. Horry is heartbreakingly real to me.

The sarcasm and quick wit, I liveeeeeeee honey!

Terrible.

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