PositiveThe Chicago Review of BooksIan Frazier is informative, entertaining, but also conventional, marching firmly in the footsteps of American humorists of the past. If you like Dave Barry’s pointed guffaws, the devoted research of Dave Eggers, and the ambling structure of Mark Twain, then you will like Ian Frazier ... He is a master of arranging the scene with just the right details to give a sense of the landscape—even beyond the scope of his essay ... The one distraction is that Frazier is always in the scene, too ... What I’m trying to get at is that Frazier is enjoyable, understandably popular, but not ground-breaking.
