Book Review
Title: Quietly Hostile by Samantha Irby
Genre: Non-Fiction, Humour, Essays
Rating: DNF
Honestly when I read the synopsis for Quietly Hostile I didn’t think it was going to be for me and at the ¼ mark I am still on the fence about it. This is a collection of essay written by Samantha Irby about life and things that happen to everyone which sounded similar to Jenny Lawson’s books. Since it was marked as humour I was expecting something with a bit more punch especially early on.
So far there doesn’t seem to be much connection between the essays, the first was about liking what you like despite what other people think. The second surrounded the pandemic and her reaction to it which was scared shitless like a lot of us which I did find mildly amusing. The third one was about her love for a singer named her favourite songs by him, some of the puns were ok but I just didn’t get the point of that chapter and the current one is about getting older and how she can’t control her bladder anymore and she proceeds to give us a list of places she has peed herself in recent years. While some might find this humour or even relate to it I definitely did not. I will give it a few more essays to see if it improves otherwise I will be DNFing this collection.
I didn’t even make it to the end of this essay before putting it down for good. I understand toilet humour might appeal to some and it does to me on occasion but this was just too much for me. The writing style was ok but I wasn’t getting any entertain or information from the essays like I did with Jenny Lawson and other collection I’ve read. As I was almost a third of the way through the book I decided to put it down and move on to something else on my TBR.
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