Loudermilk
Or, The Real Poet; Or, The Origin of the World

Great premise but I couldn't get into it -- abandoned after 40 pages. Every sentence was trying too hard to be archly funny, and there was no emotional center to the characters. Makes Tom Wolfe look restrained by comparison.......more

Despite some funny moments, this ultimately didn't work for me. The tedious sections far outweighed the funny ones. The novel is an inverted retelling of Cyrano de Bergerac, but instead of a lover needing a frontman, we have a frontman needing his secret writer. It's also a parody of creative writin......more

A tale of two idiots—the handsome, charismatic Troy Augustus Loudermilk and his unassuming, socially anxious friend Harry Rego—who, in the early days of the new millennium, scam their way into a fellowship at the most prestigious creative writing program in the country. LOUDERMILK is a quick-witted,......more