Title: Not what I hoped for.
Product review: I found the characters in the book to be caricatures; and not very entertaining ones at that. The stories all smack of male mid-life crisis, a theme that rapidly becomes predictable. It is so easy to make fun of academics, but so hard to really wrestle with the contradictions of an intellectual life in a commercial culture. Plenty of easy satire here, but not much insight or true pathos.
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