I just finished reading this today. After the terrible experience of reading Ulysses I felt like my "choosing my next book privileges" should be revoked. So I had my four year old daughter Mallory stand in front of my bookshelf and pick my next book. I felt like Robert Redford in The Natural when he asks the batboy to choose a bat for him by saying "pick me out a winner, Bobby." Mallory chose Superstud and when I asked her why, she said "Because of the funny boy." But what both Mallory and I didn't know was that this book was pretty perverse and even had some fairly blasphemous moments that were not at all enjoyable to read. Thus, Mallory did not pick me out a winner like Bobby did when he gave Roy Hobbs the "Savoy Special."
It seems like I should have known that the book would be raunchy based on the language of the cover. I guess I thought there would be some of those moments here and there, but it ended up comprising quite a large portion of the book. I was mostly hoping the book would be about awkwardly embarrassing dates and getting rejected by girls in humiliating fashion. There is some of that, but not enough as it is outweighed by the raunchy approach instead.
I wanted to read it because I'm a bit of a Paul Feig fan. He's the creator of Freaks and Geeks which is one of the greatest shows of all time. He has also directed several episodes of Arrested Development and The Office, amongst other things. I had also read his book Kick Me (previously posted in this blog) which I found to be extremely hilarious and entertaining. Unfortunately, this book didn't contain the humorous innocence of Kick Me but rather contained his clueless attempts at pursuing his deviant thoughts about girls. There are funny bits here and there, but not enough to overcome the shame I felt from reading this kind of book. I would not recommend you read this book. Read Kick Me instead.
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