There are a few very mildly funny pieces (or parts of pieces) but mostly this is deeply unfunny. I recognize that humour is hard, probably the hardest kind of writing to craft. So I like to give some leeway. The problem here is not only is not funny, but much of it is mean-spirited with sprinkles of misogyny and centrist-establishment mocking of radical politics. It just all feels easy and lazy and smug, the humour of the privileged. There is one writer who had some cleverness in his turn of phrase and ideas, Henry Beard, but the rest was an absolute chore to get through and I almost gave up several times. I have been reading it for a few months and only finished the last few stories today. Hey, it gets me closer to 50 books.
Radium
1 day ago
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No, you have, with too few exceptions, put your finger on the tenor of NATLAMP in the mid-'70s, the only time I read a few issues.
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