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MajorDudette

There's no "there" there

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on 31 October 2000

I could hardly get through this long short story. The dry, impersonal narrative didn't engage me at all and made me not give a hoot about the cartoonish characters or the story. There was no build-up, no moving forward. It was clinical, sterile writing. I found no humor in the story. If Martin was trying for any kind of pathos, it eluded me. There seems to be the makings of a beginning of a novel here, one that was aborted and published without being finished. An outline or start of a character study for a better novel, maybe. But in and of itself, a weak and uninteresting try. In my humble opinion, this book would not have received any attention if it weren't written by a well-liked celebrity.

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JustaGuy

Crude sexual descriptions did me in

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on 22 September 2015

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I love Steve Martin and was sure this would be a delightful little read. I don't consume any pornography so I am likely far more sensitive about crude, explicit descriptions of sexual activity than others. I finally had to abandon the book because of these descriptions even though I wanted to go on see what he did with the characters. I would never have guessed that Steve Martin would produce this kind of material.

I had to abandon "House of Cards" on Netflix after 3 or 4 episodes because of the creepy, dirty sex. So, yeah, I'm that guy and I'm sure this invalidates whatever I may say here for a lot of people.

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Gina S.

Writing is ok, but characters and story falls flat.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on 28 March 2015

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The story dragged on and I didn't feel enough of a connection with any of the characters to fuel a sincere interest. I purchased the novella based on a trailer for the movie that came after. All the reviews seem to be based on the interest that Steve Martin wrote a novella. I now see why. The actual story lacks and lags. He writes well enough, and there were some neat little tidbits scattered throughout. The characters, as this is a character driven novella, just didn't do anything for me.

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focusone23

Not my cup of tea

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on 29 August 2019

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I admire Steve Martin. LA Story is one of my favorites. But, The characters in this novella left me cold. I didn't care, one way or another, what happened to them.

2 people found this helpful

Nancy Ebel

the story is about the inner minds and motivations of lonely people trying to find love and acceptance in their lives

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on 21 November 2014

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Martin is a clever writer, the story is about the inner minds and motivations of lonely people trying to find love and acceptance in their lives. I found it discouraging to read about them needing to screw each other so often to find validation.

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sfoster33

boring..

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on 25 January 2013

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Maybe it's the lack of much dialogue, but I'm having a hard time getting into this book. I started over a month ago, and am about half way through.

Jinchu

Like man telling about women to women

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on 26 November 2014

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Like man telling about women to women. If you are man and interested about this kind of stuff. go ahead and read

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why?

Shoppgirl: A Novella

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on 10 October 2013

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Good story line but pretty slow out of the gate Drug out in a few parts Mediocre read at best

Fuchs Joan

Melancholisch

Reviewed in Germany 🇩🇪 on 29 May 2003

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Dieses Buch versteht sich als komisch, aber ich habe selten eine so traurige Stimmung gesehen, wie hier. Was ja an sich nicht schlecht ist, nur kann diese tiefgreifende Melancholie einfach nicht über die Mängel hinwegtäuschen. Schade, von so einem brillianten Komiker hätte man mehr erwarten können.

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