It took about half way into this book for the humor to start hitting my funny bone. Making fun of the deaf, the overweight and the handicapped is a bit hard to get into, but the author tries to make this easier by having them be nasty people---think of the old Seinfeld episodes of the "Bubble Boy" etc. The first half is rather dark and cynical. But then about halfway through, the parody of the work place really started to turn from awful to wonderful, and the narrator gets into a hilarious exchange with the "dealer" in his building and then his overbearing girlfriend loses it during their breakup, so the second half I quite enjoyed.