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Less by Andrew Sean Greer
2.0

God! I know this was satirical and Less was supposed to be annoying but MY GOD he was irredeemably so. I don’t know why I thought I would like what is essential a sob story from a cis white man after his not boyfriend of forever gets married to someone else so he travels around the world and has problematic takes about the people he interacts with,,, but I didn’t. He’s pretentious and his story is so boring and yet there have been thousands of books that tell this unoriginal story. The writing style is amazing and Greer is clearly extremely talented, but the story was so privileged, I couldn’t enjoy it.