Title: Pathetically Unfunny
Product review: As he lay dying, a famous old actor is reputed to have said "Death is easy ... comedy is hard." With this in mind, I should be kinder to Richard Russo whose new novel, STRAIGHT MAN is pathetically unfunny. The setting for the story is a college campus in Pennsylvania; its main character a smart-ass professor of English who is such a malcontent he belittles everyone he encounters with his juvenile pranks and witless remarks. I'd read that the book was laugh-out-loud funny. It is not. Irritating might be a better description
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