To Rise Again at a Decent Hour

Posted on 11 December 2018 by Joshua Ferris

A big, brilliant, profoundly observed novel about the mysteries of modern life by National Book Award Finalist Joshua Ferris, one of the most exciting voices of his generationPaul O Rourke is a man made of contradictions he loves the world, but doesn t know how to live in it He s a Luddite addicted to his iPhone, a dentist with a nicotine habit, a rabid Red Sox fan devastated by their victories, and an atheist not quite willing to let go of God.Then someone begins to impersonate Paul online, and he watches in horror as a website, a Facebook page, and a Twitter account are created in his name What begins as an outrageous violation of his privacy soon becomes something soul frightening the possibility that the online Paul might be a better version of the real thing As Paul s quest to learn why his identity has been stolen deepens, he is forced to confront his troubled past and his uncertain future in a life disturbingly split between the real and the virtual.At once laugh out loud funny about the absurdities of the modern world, and indelibly profound about the eternal questions of the meaning of life, love and truth, To Rise Again at a Decent Hour is a deeply moving and constantly surprising tour de force. Download To Rise Again at a Decent Hour – kino-fada.fr If nothing else, this book will make you feel like you need to floss immediately.To be clear, I won this mofo in a Goodreads giveaway I loved Ferris s previous two novels and eagerly hit this one Said eagerness quickly gave way to a stolid kind of admiration and a decent amount of fatigue Other reviewers will undoubtedly provide a detailed synopsis of the plot, so I ll just say that Ferris s strengths are fully on display here, but it s als...Joshua Ferris s new novel is about a dentist, and like a good dentist, Ferris welcomes us in with a few jokes and some distracting chitchat By the time we realize what we re in for, we re flat on our backs, staring wildly at our own reflection in the goggles of a person we re not sure we should trust.If you re afraid of dentists or demanding fiction...Number of times I laughed up to page 50 0Number of times I chortled up to page 50 0Number of times I grinned broadly up to page 50 0Number of times I smiled quietly up to page 50 0Number of times I very slightly smirked up to page 50 0Number of times I thought that Philip Roth, David Foster Wallace, Nicholson Baker and a couple of others whose names escape me could do this sort of angsty white middle class monologuing nitpicking mournful modern life is rubbish thing a whole lot better Number of times I laughed up to page 50 0Number of times I chortled up to page 50 0Number of times I grinned broadly up to pa...I have literally no idea why this is even longlisted The first 50ish pages were alright That was it The main character seemed like an interesting guy at the start before all the arduous religious stuff In many ways this felt like a Coen brother s film but that is a massive insult to the Co...Warning This review is not grammatically correct It is also rambling and incoherentmuch like this book was Though expertly performed by Campbell Scott, listening to this audio became almost painful What began as an entertaining character study of an enigmatic, lonely, brilliant, successful, depressed, nerdy, misunderstood, death obsessed, atheist, Red Sox fanatic and dentist, who was also addicted to yet repulsed by technology, quickly devolved into what was akin to listening to the inner Warning This review is not grammatically correct It is also rambling and incoherentmuch like this book was Though expertly performed by Campbell Scott, listening to this aud...Disclaimer I won this book in a Goodreads First Reads giveaway To Rise Again at a Decent Hour is not a bad book it just appears to have been written for an audience so specific that I m not sure it really even exists As the cover art suggests, it combines a mishmash of topics baseball, Judaism, and dentistry, primarily But while there s some logic to how all of these things fit together, they never quite add up to a cohesive whole The synopsis purports that it is the story of a man who is Disclaimer I won this book in a Goodreads First Reads giveaway To Rise Again at a Decent Hour is not a bad book it just appears to have been written for an audience so specific that I m not sure it really even exists As the cover art suggests, it combines a mishmash of topics bas...I really tried to finish reading this book struggled through 180 pages and could go no further The real killer for me was the seemingly endless ridiculous dissertations, seemingly from the Bible, to the main character from an unknown being who had stolen his identity on the internet.description on t...Paul finds all significance draining from his life, leaving a gaping hollow that nothing can fill, not even his obsessive and highly ritualised love of the Red Sox When he looks around, he sees that other people tend to be grounded in communities family, religion, whatever Paul would very much like to belong too Perfection would be to be an atheist Jew that sense of belonging, but without the ...Received this book as a First Reads giveaway and it absolutely blew me away What rock have I been under that this is the first time I ve heard of Joshua Ferris His books are now on my to read list.The main character in this novel is Dr Paul O Rourke, DDS Paul is a walking bundle of anxiety looking for answers to some very primal questions He has no family to speak of, so continually tries to attach himself to people with what appear to be happy home lives, even if he has nothing in common Received this book as a First Reads giveaway and it absolutely blew me away What rock have I been under that this is the first time I ve heard of Joshua Ferris His books are now on my to read list.The main character in this novel is Dr Paul O Rourke, DDS Paul is a walking bundle of anxiety lo...

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11 December 2018

Joshua Ferris