Fun Games David Michael Slater Books
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The 1980’s it’s the time of Dungeons & Dragons, banana clips, and Atari. Jonathan Schwartz is growing up in a family like no other. His sisters, Nadia, the dark genius, and Olivia, the gorgeous tease and temptress, manipulate Jon and his friends for their own entertainment. And his Holocaust survivor grandparents? Their coping techniques are beyond embarrassing. A disastrous visit to Jon’s class by his grandmother unhinges his famous father, setting off a chain of events that threatens to send the dysfunctional Schwartz clan up in flames once and for all. Fun & Games is a heartbreaking and hilarious story of faith, family secrets, betrayal, and loss—but it’s also a tale of friendship, love, and side-splitting shenanigans.
Fun Games David Michael Slater Books
There was very little I did not love about this book. The chapters were really long. Maybe a total of 5 chapters in the whole book. Other than that, I could not put this book down. Might be because I went to high school in the 1980s too. But the characters in this family were great. Some of the dialog was classic. I often was screaming out loud because what the characters said was funny or profound. This book is not all fun and games. There were some deep issues and a lot of tragedy in there too.Product details
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Fun Games David Michael Slater Books Reviews
Fun & Games starts out as a slice of one man's family, or in this case, one boy's. We have an evil genius sister, a hot sister who knows how to put her looks to use, a writer father trying to not be Jewish, a mother trying to preserve Jewish tradition, holocaust survivor grandparents, and of course our hero Jon, trying and often failing, to keep up with it all.
His group of friends are the usual mix of teenage boys fixated on girls and marathon games of D&D. Jon is forever being bullied, coerced and manipulated by one or both of his sisters. He is one of those people who try to go with the flow, a very difficult task in this particular family.
Mixed in with typical adolescent male hormone fueled goofiness are sometimes heartbreaking and life altering events. Family secrets abound and as Jon matures (at least chronologically), he is forced to deal with them. For the most part Fun & Games is a comedy, and a hilarious one at that. But the end leans more to the serious end of the spectrum.
It does evoke a bit of a nostalgic feeling the stupid teenage tricks, the determination to lose that pesky virginity ( I didn't lose mine, I know right where I left it) and the rocky transition from adolescent to adult.
Fun & Games can be viewed as a coming of age tale but it's more the antics of the family that puts the "fun" in dysfunctional. David Michael Slater has written a fun and funny story that fans of American Graffiti style entertainment should like. Enjoy!
Mike
I found this book confusing and hard to understand. Not my cup of tea. It was not at all what I thought it would be from the description. I did gain little insight into the feelings of Jewish people who are not practicing their religion. I think!
....of events, character development, family trauma and family drama.
Character twists, secrets revealed and both smiles and tears for the reader.
Loooooove this book. Entertaining for all age groups. Me and all my siblings read it -) download or order it right away!
A enjoyed the flashes from the past - I could recall specific instances from my adolescence as they were recounted by David Michael Slater The music, the practices, the confusion and trying to make sense of it all through the filter of youth.
As others have said, this was a very fun, riveting read that still managed to tackle some serious subjects. While the main character's relationship with his culture/religion was certainly a running theme, I saw little, if any, of the "God-talk" another reviewer mentioned. Unfortunately, I felt that the book ended too abruptly with a series of revelations that ought to have served as a turning point instead serving as an ending. Jonathon, the main character, had so much "coming-of-age" left to do! He may have been 18, but he was just barely beginning to show flashes of the adult he might eventually grow into being. And, his relationships with his friends, a stabilizing force throughout the novel, were suddenly in complete turmoil. Actually, his friends were my favorite part of the story. I was so invested in every single one of the group of four's development, especially Jake's. I suppose that investment, more than anything else, explains my extreme frustration with the lack of a denouement/conclusion.
Fun & Games had me both laughing and just plain shocked at the same time. Slater does a great job of capturing the mindset of many American Jews that I know, often struggling to strike a balance between orthodox dogma and complete apathy towards religion. A great read!
There was very little I did not love about this book. The chapters were really long. Maybe a total of 5 chapters in the whole book. Other than that, I could not put this book down. Might be because I went to high school in the 1980s too. But the characters in this family were great. Some of the dialog was classic. I often was screaming out loud because what the characters said was funny or profound. This book is not all fun and games. There were some deep issues and a lot of tragedy in there too.
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