Title: Disappointing and Overrated
Review: Barry had a good idea but the delivery is predictable, unsurprising, and not nearly as funny as I'd expected it would be based on the reviews -- the work of a young writer who isn't saying anything new. The dialogue, in particular, is atrocious -- just flat and boring -- and the characters are never developed sufficiently. If you want really smart, funny, fresh, outrageous, genuinely quirky social satire, turn instead to Thomas Pynchon, Dawn Powell, Nathanael West, John Barth, Kurt Vonnegut, even relative newcomer Jonathan Ames, or any number of other good satirists.
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