Book Review: The Pleasure of My Company by Steve Martin

The Pleasure of My Company by Steve Martin
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This is the latest assignment in my reading group. Which, incidentally, just celebrated its 10th Anniversary! I have never read Steve Martin and this rotation my group is taking on two of his novellas as a compare and contrast type of thing. I liked Martin's style of writing, but will admit I didn't really develop any interest in the characters for the first 50-75 pages. If this wasn't a novella, I probably would have put it down. But I'm very glad I stayed with it until the end. In fact, I'm not sure I was really loving it until the very last paragraph. It was at that point that book came together for me. I wished Martin developed Zandy's character a bit more, but I assume that was deliberate given that it was told from the first person and that the narrator wasn't able to provide more info here. But I do enjoy books that make you learn something about yourself in addition to something about a character. Martin did just that.

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