Helpful Score: 3
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I'm with Stupid by Elaine Szewczyk follows New Yorker Kas and her friends
Max and Libby as they go on a South African Safari. The main character,
Kas, is an awfully boring one dimensional Twenty-something who has been
dumped by her boyfriend and is stuck in a post-breakup depression. To make
things worse, Kas sees her ex, Richard, out at a club with his new
girlfriend, who actually ends up being his fiance of two years! Kas'
friend Max decides to enact revenge on Richard in many various ways -
telling all his neighbors he's a convict and putting up signs around town
advertising Richard's escort services - among other things. Max's antics
are about the only thing that is funny about this novel. On the South
African safari Kas has a fling with a man named William, a handsome park
ranger who saves the group from certain death. After going back to New
York, Kas thinks William is out of her league. When he unexpectedly sends
an email and says he is coming to New York (with the miscommunication that
Kas has offered him a place to live) Kas is estatic but her excitement
goes flat when she realizes William is not playing with a full deck of
cards - finding out that he has an obcession with Big Apple-themed
Souveniers and pyshics. In this fast paced novel the girl gets the guy but
wishes all along that she hadn't. The characters are boring and the
chapters are far too long (at over 100 pages just for chapter one!) In
addition, the way it is written feels like your reading the ramblings of
someone with hyper activity disorder - it's all over the place and hard to
follow. The only thing to like about this novel is the ending, when you
realize that you don't have to waste any more time on such a drab book.
I'm with Stupid by Elaine Szewczyk follows New Yorker Kas and her friends
Max and Libby as they go on a South African Safari. The main character,
Kas, is an awfully boring one dimensional Twenty-something who has been
dumped by her boyfriend and is stuck in a post-breakup depression. To make
things worse, Kas sees her ex, Richard, out at a club with his new
girlfriend, who actually ends up being his fiance of two years! Kas'
friend Max decides to enact revenge on Richard in many various ways -
telling all his neighbors he's a convict and putting up signs around town
advertising Richard's escort services - among other things. Max's antics
are about the only thing that is funny about this novel. On the South
African safari Kas has a fling with a man named William, a handsome park
ranger who saves the group from certain death. After going back to New
York, Kas thinks William is out of her league. When he unexpectedly sends
an email and says he is coming to New York (with the miscommunication that
Kas has offered him a place to live) Kas is estatic but her excitement
goes flat when she realizes William is not playing with a full deck of
cards - finding out that he has an obcession with Big Apple-themed
Souveniers and pyshics. In this fast paced novel the girl gets the guy but
wishes all along that she hadn't. The characters are boring and the
chapters are far too long (at over 100 pages just for chapter one!) In
addition, the way it is written feels like your reading the ramblings of
someone with hyper activity disorder - it's all over the place and hard to
follow. The only thing to like about this novel is the ending, when you
realize that you don't have to waste any more time on such a drab book.
Helpful Score: 2
This was a fun read. I couldn't put it down.
