demonxore's reviews
107 reviews

Like many millennials I dig Kaufman's cinematic oeuvre, but after more than 700 pages of Antkind I can definitively say I'm not a fan of Kaufman the author. As others have mentioned in reviews, the first 300 pages were hilarious! But the gag became stale beyond the halfway point. Sorry, Charlie! 

I learned some new bits of history from this book even though I've read many works about the advancements of physics in the 20th century. I actually wish I had read this first before Rhodes's The Making of the Atomic Bomb. 

Very very similar to my childhood so obviously this resonates, but the overall style and the method of ending the memoir could have been better.

Not extremely insightful or poignant, but neither is it terrible. Very quick read.

Second read-through 10 years after the first. I still love Auri best, and although some turns of phrase in this novella have become a bit stale, the atmosphere holds strong.

Volume 1 was excellent!
Volume 2 was almost insufferable.
Volume 3 was meh.

It's hard to give a modern rating to Shakespeare. I've decided I'm only rating his plays in reference to each other, so Twelfth Night gets 2.5 stars since I know I've read better Shakespeare.