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March 8, 2005

The Pleasure of My Company was not a pleasure

Just finished Steve Martin's new book, The Pleasure of My Company: .

Short review: Self involved insipid tripe.

Longer review: I have been a long time Steve Martin fan. I remember listening to Lets Get Small on my Sony Cassette walkman as I delivered papers in highschool. Watching Steve on Saturday Night live as a "wild and crazy guy" was a rare treat when the parents stayed out late. The first of his novel's I read was Shop Girl. I am confident enough in my masculinity to say that I liked the book. It was a good beach read. Nice and light and breazy. So a couple of weeks ago on my way to LA I picked up his new one expecting something similar. What I got was an obsessive rambling disorganized diatribe of useless banter with no point. I bailed out after about 60 pages and never even finished it. Don't waste your time. Come on Steve, give us another one.

One of five on the Martin scale.

Posted by Martin at March 8, 2005 10:08 AM

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