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You won't find inspiring stories of heroes overcoming obstacles to attain undreamed successes here. That's just as well -- these are funny, entertaining, and insightful stories. Lipsyte gives us a lighthearted if defeated world, with its anti-heroes somehow claiming our empathy.

Much of the world of these stories is populated by people for whom the world is just unconquerable. It's not because they have played the game and couldn't quite win, but because they really just couldn't find their way into the game at all.

One example is the protagonist of The Worm in Philly. He's a down-and-outer with a big idea, writing a children's book about the boxer Marvin Hagler. There's nothing disastrous about the idea -- it's too ludicrous to be a disaster. He knows nothing about Hagler that he hasn't learned by a quick trip to the library, before meeting his prospective agent. He pitches his idea. We know it's going nowhere. The only question is why an agent would agree to meet with him. It's not that it's a bad idea -- it doesn't even rise high enough to be a bad idea. The agent isn't even there to listen to it. It isn't a crushing defeat for the would-be writer -- after all, he was never in the game anyway.

Many of Lipsyte's characters are like this. People without an admission ticket. He tells his stories with empathy and humor. We all know what it's like not to be admitted to the game. It kind of makes us all the brothers we wished we never had.


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The Fun Parts Stories Sam Lipsyte 9780374298906 Books Reviews

SMOOTH!!!
Good deal on a good product.
I read this book for the fun parts When the prose cuisinart switches from satire to howl, then to the Fred Seidel setting I can't find on any other writer's cuisinarts these days.
The first three stories alone are worth buying this book. Dark, funny with well developed characters that are often broken "seemingly" beyond repair. After the first three stories the depth and interest drops down a notch. These stories can put you in a minor funk but the high of reading such desperately true characters is worth it.
I'm pretty new to the contemporary literature scene so I do not have a whole lot of reference here. But, of the contemporary novels I've read so far (only around 15 or so, but bear with me) this is easily one of the best. Lipsyte has an incredible knack for making you laugh at the sickest of situations. He makes a man being blown up by a drone missile absurdly funny. The book is a collection of short stories, all of which deal with family issues, growing pains, dealing with loss and above all closure. The book is a wild ride that makes you nauseous while making you laugh all they way through.
I understand that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but for short story lovers who also admire the beauty and poetry of language, this book is one of the best I have ever read, and I have read many. Sam Lipsyte can be hysterical and heartbreaking in the same sentence; one moment I am laughing so hard I am crying, and in the next I am just crying. Aside from the emotions evoked, the choice of words, the minimalist execution is truly a talent that few writers are able to pull off. Worth reading!!
Before preparing this review, I let a week pass. Short stories take only a few minutes to read; the okay stories give us a flicker of mere amusement while the truly great stories stay with us indefinitely. So, after a week, Sam Lipsyte’s THE FUN PARTS leaves me still chewing on only one great story “The Dungeon Master,” a piece about a coven of outcasts living Fantasy lives that exceed their earthbound lives which are wracked with dysfunction and stillborn dreams in a drab New Jersey suburbs. It’s a heartbreaking story told in an inventive style, always a winning combination. It's the only standout in this collection.

Lipsyte populates his narratives with losers, addicts, mutants, malcontents, and the hopelessly hopeful. The author chooses words the way a sharpshooter chooses ammunition. His sentences dance with expertise “His body slid limp beside a Dumpster. Vomit fired up my throat. Gregory called it in, used a language I knew vaguely from television.” It’s energized. The man is a huge talent. But that’s exactly why the book is disappointing. Most of these stories feel like something a savant doodled on the back of a napkin. Is it good? Yes. Does it bear the signs of genius? Yup. But is it nourishing and impactful? Almost, but no. A piece like “The Wisdom of the Dulas” is couched in a hilarious conceit, but amusing does not a masterpiece make.

His style is unique, but there are shades of some of that 1990s to early-2000s “hysterical realism.” “The Republic of Empathy” and “The Real-Ass Jumbo” pulse with originality, yet their premises become so surreal that the themes are remote.

I won’t stop reading Sam Lipsyte. He’s on my radar. But THE FUN PARTS ends up being a cloudy, clunky lump of misspent genius.
You won't find inspiring stories of heroes overcoming obstacles to attain undreamed successes here. That's just as well -- these are funny, entertaining, and insightful stories. Lipsyte gives us a lighthearted if defeated world, with its anti-heroes somehow claiming our empathy.

Much of the world of these stories is populated by people for whom the world is just unconquerable. It's not because they have played the game and couldn't quite win, but because they really just couldn't find their way into the game at all.

One example is the protagonist of The Worm in Philly. He's a down-and-outer with a big idea, writing a children's book about the boxer Marvin Hagler. There's nothing disastrous about the idea -- it's too ludicrous to be a disaster. He knows nothing about Hagler that he hasn't learned by a quick trip to the library, before meeting his prospective agent. He pitches his idea. We know it's going nowhere. The only question is why an agent would agree to meet with him. It's not that it's a bad idea -- it doesn't even rise high enough to be a bad idea. The agent isn't even there to listen to it. It isn't a crushing defeat for the would-be writer -- after all, he was never in the game anyway.

Many of Lipsyte's characters are like this. People without an admission ticket. He tells his stories with empathy and humor. We all know what it's like not to be admitted to the game. It kind of makes us all the brothers we wished we never had.