Member Review
Review by
Andy L, Reviewer
It's an enthralling story, extremely well written in the way it weaves the historical context into the current situation.
It's difficult reading at times but engrossing and absorbing, you can see how the developing narrative is shaped by a tragic past.
The lead character is Dovaleh Greenstein. He's not a very good stand up telling some awful jokes, being very rude to the audience and exhibiting some really bad attitude and behaviours. It's more like a therapy session. The author engenders a whole range of emotions towards him from ambivalence, contempt, bewilderment and disgust to empathy as the story unfolds through the eyes of a narrator.
It's not really a story about comedy, it's more about life, our attitudes to each other and the general failings of humanity. But there's also a sense of redemption or closure to the finale, it's a great release of the building tension through the story.
It's difficult reading at times but engrossing and absorbing, you can see how the developing narrative is shaped by a tragic past.
The lead character is Dovaleh Greenstein. He's not a very good stand up telling some awful jokes, being very rude to the audience and exhibiting some really bad attitude and behaviours. It's more like a therapy session. The author engenders a whole range of emotions towards him from ambivalence, contempt, bewilderment and disgust to empathy as the story unfolds through the eyes of a narrator.
It's not really a story about comedy, it's more about life, our attitudes to each other and the general failings of humanity. But there's also a sense of redemption or closure to the finale, it's a great release of the building tension through the story.
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