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| Original Title: | The Pleasure of My Company |
| ISBN: | 0786888016 (ISBN13: 9780786888016) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | Grammy Award Nominee for Best Spoken Word Album (2005) |
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Daniel Pecan Cambridge, 30, 35, 38, or 27, depending on how he feels that day, is a young man whose life is rich and full, provided he never leaves his Santa Monica apartment. After all, outside there are 8-inch-high curbs and there's always the horrible chance he might see a gas station attendant wearing a blue hat. So, except for the occasional trip to the Rite Aid to admire the California girl Zandy and to buy earplugs because they're on sale, he stays home a lot. And a good thing too, or he would have never been falsely implicated in a murder, never almost seduced Philipa, never done the impossible task of jogging around the block with Brian, never ironed his pillows, and he might never have won the Most Average American essay contest. The Pleasure of My Company is the chronicle of a modern-day neurotic yearning to break free.List Epithetical Books The Pleasure of My Company
| Title | : | The Pleasure of My Company |
| Author | : | Steve Martin |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 176 pages |
| Published | : | October 6th 2004 by Hachette Books (first published 2003) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Humor. Comedy. Contemporary. Novels. Audiobook. Adult Fiction |
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Ratings: 3.78 From 14972 Users | 1462 ReviewsCommentary Epithetical Books The Pleasure of My Company
Steve Martin has a wonderful way with words. He gives life to the ordinary. To the people who live on the sidelines, shy, quiet, never attracting attention. Those who many would simply label "boring". Martin shows us that we all have a story inside us, if only we took the time to look a little closer. After reading Shopgirl I knew I had to check out more and was not disappointed. In The Pleasure of my Company we follow Daniel Cambridge, a lonely but highly intelligent man whose life is ruled byThe main character was annoying as hell. I didn't care about his journey. I wanted him to just go away.
I hold in high regard, the variance of output Steve Martin produces. He's a fascinating character who has been around, making himself known in trademark guises for decades now. As comedic actor, he's iconic; as a writer he's good at weaving cozy webs around sensitive, struggling characters. In 1990's Shopgirl Martin sculpts Vermont transplant, and glove counter ingenue, Mirabelle Buttersfield, into a compelling LA heroine. Three years later in 1993The Pleasure of My Company follows the lonely
Well and have you checked out his recorded banjo music?
I started listening to this in the car on my ride to work on Monday. That's when I realized I had either listened to it once already or read it before. I decided to go ahead and listen to it again - What else is there to do on the drive in to work anyway. The story centers around the carefully constructed world of Daniel Pecan Cambridge - an obsessive-compulsive who has as many rituals as I have unwanted hair. (ALOT) Daniel doesn't have a job - his OCD got in the way of his job at Hewlett
I'll do my best not to compare or contrast this with Shopgirl since, for the most part, both books are completely different animals. Even though, like with Shopgirl, at times I was either very frustrated or very surprised by what I was reading.Daniel, the character whose head the reader is in, is slightly off from normal, to put it in a nice way. One of the biggest frustrations for me in the book, however, was that it's not really clear why this is the case; I mean, we know it has to do with his
This was fantastic. Daniels compulsions, while often played for laughs, dont disguise the human underneath. It was impossible simply to roll my eyes at him and say, Oh my gosh, thats so weird. I really felt for the guy! Considering how short this was, I was very impressed by how well-developed he was as a character. It became clear very early on that the last thing anyone should do with Daniel Pecan Cambridge is dismiss him as a weirdo. Hes just a genuinely nice guy with a huge set of quirks. It
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