The First Bad Man
Ratings30
Average rating3.6
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Ratings30
Average rating3.6
*New York Times Bestseller* The “brilliant, hilarious, irreverent, piercing” (O, The Oprah Magazine) debut novel from Miranda July, acclaimed filmmaker, artist, and writer. Cheryl Glickman believes in romances that span centuries and a soul that migrates between babies. She works at a women’s self-defense nonprofit and lives alone. When her bosses ask if their twenty-year-old daughter, Clee, can move into her house for a while, Cheryl’s eccentrically ordered world explodes. And yet it is Clee—the selfish, cruel blond bombshell—who bullies Cheryl into reality and, unexpectedly, leads her to the love of a lifetime. Tender, gripping, slyly hilarious, infused with raging sexual fantasies and fierce maternal love, Miranda July’s first novel confirms her as a spectacularly original, iconic, and important voice today, and a writer for all time.
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Had potential, but despite the quirky characters and unusual plot, it dragged after a while. Fulfills my Read Harder Challenge category of a debut novel.
Competently written, but it just didn't move me. Actually no, it did gross me out quite a bit but other than that, no.
The amount of ‘quirky' was through the roof, very early 00s peak-hipster era, before the Manic Pixie Dream Girl trope got us rolling our eyes.
Also most of it was about babies and I'd never have picked it up if I'd known that.
I gave in to the hype so that's probably made the disappointment worse, overall it was an enjoyable and hilarious read. Not sure what I expected.
I love Miranda July, but I couldn't get through this. I read till page 100 and wondered where it was going.
I love July's short fiction, this not as much. It's not a bad story, it's just full of people who mildly disgusted me doing mildly disgusting things and the clever observations that July uses to pepper her short stories are few and further between. It is possible that I just was not in the mood for this brand of weird. Her imagination never fails to impress me. The real test will be whether or not I still remember it after a period of time.
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