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title: "Half Empty: Essays"
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# Half Empty: Essays

**Brand:** david rakoff
**Price:** € 23.09
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- **What is this?** Half Empty: Essays by david rakoff
- **How much does it cost?** € 23.09 with free shipping
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Half Empty: Essays

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Grab a dictionary and enjoy the ride!
  

*by B***F on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 29, 2010*

Listen. This isn't an easy read, a beach read or necessarily a page turner for the average bear. BUT it's really great. I laughed so hard in a few bits at such brilliant twists of phrase that I had to put the book down and collect myself. If you like the dry and the sardonic this is for you.I love David Rakoff's work and have had this book preordered for a long time. I have both Fraud and Don't Get Too Comfortable as audio books and in print and have been jittery with anticipation for something else from the essayist. It's dark, sure. But I think that bodes well for the times. If you haven't noticed the ridiculous at every corner, take a ride with a practiced eye for picking up on details that the average miss.There are no "good" chapters and "bad" as some folk have posted here. Some will appeal and some will appeal more. This is not formulaic writing and as such you may get tongue tied in a couple ramblers. And he's no simpleton with the word crafting. But grab a dictionary and enjoy. In a society filled with LOL and OMG, I find Rakoff's high minded humor at the absurd to be refreshing.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Dense, poetic, tragic
  

*by D***D on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 23, 2012*

Purchased this book the day after Mr. Rakoff died. I watched a speech he gave at a college wherein he read passages from this book.I cried and cried and cried at his "The Invisible Made Invisible" speech. If you haven't seen it, watch it, it will make you purchase this book.I waited one month due to backorder, and was happy to. I bought it 3 months ago and cannot bring myself to finish it because it would be the final nail in my mental coffin for David Rakoff. Truly a genius.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Total Genius
  

*by F***Z on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 4, 2011*

You'd think maybe since David and I know each other and worked on a project together a few years ago that I would be biased, but with an Oscar (TM) on his resume, several best-selling books, and now (just announced 10/3) a Thurber Prize for Humor FOR THIS BOOK, I'm pretty certain I'm not the only one who recognizes Rakoff's talent and comedic genius.  If you don't get it, or his humor, perhaps Where's Waldo is more your speed.  This is filled with hysterical views on everything life offers.  Read it.  Then read it again.  Then give it to friends as gifts.

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