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Less funny than the other simon rich short story collection i just finished, i think the only story that i will remember for longest than a day (and the only one to make me actually go 'ha') is semester abroad, even though it's mostly stereotypical character humour. it's more a testament to the long weekend than to the quality of these stories

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I believe this is the first time i've ever read a full book in 24 hours (for an actual book, not like a dr seuss). Sexual content: one story had a guy self pleasuring. Swearing language: strong including religious swear words. Unabridged audiobook length: 3 hrs and 53 minutes. Also, he also should have left greater pauses between stories. His east coast accent is too strong and distracts. But I don’t think Simon Rich should do it. For example he says “I’m like going somewhere.”

And the dialogue sounds millennial because he uses the word “like” so much. Many subjects related to things kids in their 20's think about.

He couldn’t believe he was getting 100 applications a day from college students wanting to work as slave labor for him. He was advised to hire help, but he didn’t want the expense, so he was told to use interns. “Sell Out” had an immigrant making and selling pickles. When Simon was assigned to feed them for the week, they knew death by starvation was coming. Most or all of them are told in first person. I didn’t laugh, but I smiled several times. I must now go find more stories by Rich.ģ ½ stars. At times, the stories hit a little too close to my own home but I found myself laughing even as I winced. There are many brats in these stories, all from affluence, who follow their bliss and reject monetary values (as long as they have their personal inheritance) and whine their way through their affluence at any inconvenience or demand to grow up. Some of the stories are more successful than others (I particularly like the one where a man is pickled in a vat of brine and comes back 100 years later and meets his great-great-grandson. Some of them are only as long as a lengthy joke and I preferred the somewhat longer ones, commentaries on hipsters, Brooklyn's status as uber borough, modern parenting, and elementary school classroom culture. Spoiled Brats: Stories is a collection of stories by Simon Rich, an author I feel compelled to read more of the moment I finish this review. You'll get a couple of laughs out of it and it won't take more than a few hours of your time. So, you know, pick this up at the hipster equivalent of a yard sale (a treehouse sale? a cavernous loft pilfering party? I don't know) next time you stumble upon one.

At times, the wink-and-nod style of 'see how I'm even hipper than the hipster crew?' reminded me, I'm sorry to say, of Lena Dunham. The stories are TOO tongue in cheek, leaving the reader (at least, this reader) rolling her eyes instead of holding her sides from laughing. He's obviously an insider, a Brooklynite and a hipster. But for someone who seems intent on roasting the selfie selfishness of the Millennials, Rich seems a little too close to the fire. I laughed out loud several times while reading 'Sell Out,' and several of the other scenarios made me chuckle (I particularly liked the premise of 'The Tribal Rite of the Strombergs'.). Simon Rich's collection of short stories has some funny moments, for sure.

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