Audiobook6 hours
Dating Tips for the Unemployed
Written by Iris Smyles
Narrated by Amy Landon
Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
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About this audiobook
Iris-the narrator and heroine-guides the reader through twenty-four episodes from her life, pausing now and then for meditations on love, sex, work, loneliness, insomnia, arctic exploration, cannibalism, the Higgs boson, Greek mythology, memory, costumes parties, time travel,#160;Rocky I, II, V, IV, VI, and#160;III#160;respectively, literary immortality, real estate trends, and growing up and growing old. Evoking the screwball heroines of a bygone era as she often finds herself a little lost in her own, Iris ventures blithely into the future, and Smyles collects the flotsam of her past. An encyclopedic, absurd, lyrical, and louche picaresque about that awkward age-between birth and death-when you feel like you don't know at all what you're doing.
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5fiction/humor. I was not expecting a work of literature, but I wasn't expecting a tedious list of un-funny jokes either. This might be better in audio/delivered in person?
The first chapter was pages about various people talking too much/telling her it's not too late to find love--sort of amusing, but not a hook. The second chapter is apparently a very long series of jokes (a couple pages of them detailing "This is how pathetic my unemployment is," then another few pages of them explaining "this is how pathetic my dating life is," and so on). I'm all for self-deprecation, but this was tedious, like a bunch of ideas for jokes that a comedienne might write out before honing one or two or three of the best storylines.
And that is as far as I got.