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For those of you that have seen the book, here are the two reviews it received recently in a novel award. They couldn't be more different, the second (negative one) seems to think that losing your hair is a trivial matter and that people like us should get some real problems to worry about. Do you think this is from someone with all their own hair?
Anyway, here's the reviews and anyone interested in the book (all profits go to foodforthepoor.org) here's the link http://www.nocureforbaldness.com
Review1
No cure is laugh out loud hilarious from start to finish! It's hard to believe the subject matter could be more than grist for a short story but the author has eked out three endearingly slapstick chapters so far, so I have to believe there's more to come. It's a page turner.
The technical aspects of the excerpt could use a bit of refining - especially punctuation and some sentence structure changes - but the style is consistent with the delivery, and that 'voice' is one of a kind.
Panic attacks and baldness are not exactly the subject of great literature, but it's truly refreshing to read a piece by an author who, though his main character may be utterly self-absorbed and not a little crazy, does not ever once consider letting that character wallow.
If it's a memoir, how refreshing that he, the author, doesn't wallow. As upsetting as the situation may be, this is a man who takes the bull by the horns. Who is not willing to accept the unacceptable. A man of action, a man of the hour! I hope this book will be dedicated to all the comic drama queens who make us smile just by being themselves every single day.
Review 2
An entire novel about a man trying to cover up his bald spot? Boring. The narrator came across more pathetic than humorous, where one felt bad if one laughed at him for his silly hypochondriac reactions to going bald. The prose style isn't bad with good dialogue skills but it is far from interesting. The except reads more like a short story, one which the reader hopes is a short story or novella at best, since an entire book on whining about male pattern baldness is, well, dull and self-indulgent. All of the antics are clichés and never rise above stupid. And in the end, we're not even sure why the man cares. Is it because he is worried about looking older, less attractive? Certainly even his hypochondria doesn't make him really think balding is a life-threatening condition? His concerns come across as inane and ultimately boring. If this is the worst thing in his life, he should consider himself lucky and go find some real proble
Anyway, here's the reviews and anyone interested in the book (all profits go to foodforthepoor.org) here's the link http://www.nocureforbaldness.com
Review1
No cure is laugh out loud hilarious from start to finish! It's hard to believe the subject matter could be more than grist for a short story but the author has eked out three endearingly slapstick chapters so far, so I have to believe there's more to come. It's a page turner.
The technical aspects of the excerpt could use a bit of refining - especially punctuation and some sentence structure changes - but the style is consistent with the delivery, and that 'voice' is one of a kind.
Panic attacks and baldness are not exactly the subject of great literature, but it's truly refreshing to read a piece by an author who, though his main character may be utterly self-absorbed and not a little crazy, does not ever once consider letting that character wallow.
If it's a memoir, how refreshing that he, the author, doesn't wallow. As upsetting as the situation may be, this is a man who takes the bull by the horns. Who is not willing to accept the unacceptable. A man of action, a man of the hour! I hope this book will be dedicated to all the comic drama queens who make us smile just by being themselves every single day.
Review 2
An entire novel about a man trying to cover up his bald spot? Boring. The narrator came across more pathetic than humorous, where one felt bad if one laughed at him for his silly hypochondriac reactions to going bald. The prose style isn't bad with good dialogue skills but it is far from interesting. The except reads more like a short story, one which the reader hopes is a short story or novella at best, since an entire book on whining about male pattern baldness is, well, dull and self-indulgent. All of the antics are clichés and never rise above stupid. And in the end, we're not even sure why the man cares. Is it because he is worried about looking older, less attractive? Certainly even his hypochondria doesn't make him really think balding is a life-threatening condition? His concerns come across as inane and ultimately boring. If this is the worst thing in his life, he should consider himself lucky and go find some real proble