Finished reading The Nimrod Flip-Out by Etgar Keret, and I honestly don’t even know what to make of it. The review blurb on the cover is pretty accurate, I guess. It was only when I just went to go find a picture of the cover that I saw that. My copy was from the library, thus solid colored and jacketless. I was going to say that the stories were absurd, whimsical, gruesome, and sometimes ordinary all at the same time.

Wristcutters, based on one of his stories from another collection, made me want to check out his writing style since I loved the movie so much. I’ve been meaning to do so for awhile, and while I liked the stories enough, I wasn’t blown away by this collection. It could be that I just don’t know enough about Israeli culture to relate to the characters/settings and didn’t quite get his sense of humor. Glad I read it, but I’m not sure I’ll be going back for more except maybe to check out Pizzeria Kamikaze (graphic novel collaboration).