Page 14 - Stuart Exposure - February '21

Page 14, Stuart Exposure

Book review

Hits & Misses reaction to Spoiled ...” After all, they average only about five or six pages each.
I kept telling myself “just one more story ... just one more
As for my
By Nils A. Shapiro Brats, the book I But, like eating potato chips, I couldn’t stop until there were
I should make this an reviewed a year no more left. Here are several examples to explain why:
annual treat! ago, I laughed out Riding High: The Oatsy Story is told by a horse who has
Exactly one year loud from first a legitimate complaint. He describes how one night he spent
ago, in February 2020, I page to last at the hours running all around town, even through brambles, no
reviewed a collection of wildest extremes matter how tired, while his friend Paul on top of him, was
short stories, Spoiled Brats, of comedic scared and kept screaming his head off. And now, he is in
by Simon Rich, an author imagination I had a cage in a glue factory and nobody cares about him, and
among whose credits are ever encountered his friend, Paul – you know him, Paul Revere – is famous.
having been a writer for in any creative It isn’t fair.
TV’s Saturday Night Live form. One of the Menlo Park, 1891. Thomas Edison’s laboratory was
and The Simpsons. He is 13 stories in that located in Menlo Park, N.J. In 1891, he invented the
a frequent contributor to The New Yorker magazine, has book, Sellout – kinetograph, the first “motion picture camera” which he
created several TV series, and now has seven published although, at 78 knew would change the world and make him famous. He
books to his credit. pages in length, hires a boy, hands him two oblong wooden clubs, tells him
England’s Guardian newspaper calls Simon Rich “the I described it to just swing the clubs over his head, films that activity
funniest man in America,” and he has also been described then as almost a for a few minutes with his new invention and sarcastically
as “the Stephen King of comedy writing.” Conan O’Brien novella – I found especially hilarious and impressive. It titles the film Newark Athlete. Then Edison invites the press,
has simply stated, “My admiration for Rich is rivaled only tells of an immigrant Jew who arrives in America from screens the film and anticipates their excited reaction and
by my jealousy.” Europe, gets a job in a Brooklyn pickle factory, marries questions. When the reporters notice the boy, they rush to
a girl who becomes pregnant, and one day he falls into a him – not Edison – and ask what it feels like to be an actor,
reAl estAte large vat of brine, the lid closes above him, and he is not what advice he has for youngsters seeking an acting career,
discovered – perfectly preserved – until 100 years later!
inquire about his girlfriends, and so on. Simon Rich lives
What happens to him then becomes the author’s satirical in Los Angeles, and knows full well the irony of celebrity
Treasure Coast commentary on our “millennial” generation’s foibles and worship – actors over all others, including in this fictional
case the inventor!
lifestyle trends.
That story has just been made into a film, An American
Real Estate Report Pickle, starring Seth Rogen in dual roles as both the Dinosaur is about a real dinosaur. You know, the really
big, green kind with a scaly back, yellow eyes and sharp
immigrant Jew and the century-later descendant of his razor teeth. Except this one works as a writer for a TV
Sellers And Buyers Beware. The Mortgage wife who was pregnant at the time of his disappearance. show, and the rest of the staff, humans one-twentieth his
Application Process Can Turn Into A Rich’s newest collection, Hits & Misses, contains 19 size, are really way – and I mean waaaaaaaay younger.
Nightmare And Kill Your Deal stories. Published in 2018, it is every bit as much fun. The problem is that the others keep using words like
And, just as with the others, you can open it to almost “woke,” and other terms that he hasn’t caught onto, and he
By Jim Weix any page – at the beginning of any story – and find a hit; is embarrassed to admit it, so he has to keep looking them
If you pay your bills there are virtually no misses here. In my case, I had an up. It’s a “generation gap” thing, but when robots enter the
on time and want to get a hour or so before dinner New Year’s Eve and decided to picture it all works out at the end, thanks to Simon Rich’s
mortgage, you may not worry start reading the first story. In two sittings, by the end of inexhaustible imagination.
about what is on your credit New Year’s Day, I had turned the last of the book’s 230 There are 16 more like these. Go along for the ride. You
report. What can go wrong? pages ... captivated again by the almost inconceivable will love it. And when somebody makes a movie out of one
Unfortunately, plenty. imagination capable of springing from one man’s mind! of these stories, you will have read the book first!
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