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A review by nclcaitlin
A Comedy of Nobodies: A Collection of Stories by Baron Ryan
2.0
Sally Rooney meets comedy.
This recounts a fall semester of Charlie and his social circle - four typical, existential, anxious university students who just want to feel understood.
”I want to die, but I'm so unlucky that if I were reincarnated, I'd probably just come back as myself."
Some stories were semi-relatable, but towards the end, I felt so frustrated at all the friends, especially when it starts getting into a religious pyramid scheme.
Charlie’s fears about never finding love, never being capable of being loved or finding the right one is definitely something that I sympathise with.
However, Charlie is supposed to be twenty years old. I’m 20, and struggled to relate to most of his other actions and thoughts. This made me look up the reviews and now I’m questioning whether I’m the odd, strange 20-year-old who doesn’t think in this way and doesn’t do what he does.
Charlie is witty and nerdy, yet always passed over by each new girl in the story who don’t go for the “nice guy” troupe.
This is a collection of stories all about the same characters so I wasn’t expecting amazing character work. However, I was definitely expecting… more. I had to look up Charlie’s name…
Admittedly, I had no idea who Baron Ryan was when I listened to this and it was only looking up reviews that I found out he is an internet sensation.
I think this will definitely work better for others, but unfortunately I am just left feeling confused and questioning my own normalcy.
Thank you to Blackstone Publishing for providing me an arc in exchange for a review.
This recounts a fall semester of Charlie and his social circle - four typical, existential, anxious university students who just want to feel understood.
”I want to die, but I'm so unlucky that if I were reincarnated, I'd probably just come back as myself."
Some stories were semi-relatable, but towards the end, I felt so frustrated at all the friends, especially when it starts getting into a religious pyramid scheme.
Charlie’s fears about never finding love, never being capable of being loved or finding the right one is definitely something that I sympathise with.
However, Charlie is supposed to be twenty years old. I’m 20, and struggled to relate to most of his other actions and thoughts. This made me look up the reviews and now I’m questioning whether I’m the odd, strange 20-year-old who doesn’t think in this way and doesn’t do what he does.
Charlie is witty and nerdy, yet always passed over by each new girl in the story who don’t go for the “nice guy” troupe.
This is a collection of stories all about the same characters so I wasn’t expecting amazing character work. However, I was definitely expecting… more. I had to look up Charlie’s name…
Admittedly, I had no idea who Baron Ryan was when I listened to this and it was only looking up reviews that I found out he is an internet sensation.
I think this will definitely work better for others, but unfortunately I am just left feeling confused and questioning my own normalcy.
Thank you to Blackstone Publishing for providing me an arc in exchange for a review.