Started: 7/16/2022
Finished: DNF
Year: 2022
Pages: 262
Genre: Memoir
Grade: F
Reason for reading: LibraryThing.com giveaway
Type: hardcover
Blurb (from Amazon): "In September 2016, Jerry Stahl was feeling nervous on the eve of a two-week trip across Poland and Germany. But it was not just the stops at Auschwitz, Buchenwald, and Dachau that gave him anxiety. It was the fact that he would be traveling with two dozen strangers, by bus. In a tour group. And he was not a tour-group kind of guy.
The decision to visit Holocaust-world did not come easy. Stahl’s lifelong depression at an all-time high, his career and personal life at an all-time low, he had the idea to go on a trip where the despair he was feeling—out-of- control sadness, regret, and fear, not just for himself, but for the entire United States—would be appropriate. And where was despair more appropriate than the land of the Six Million?
Seamlessly weaving global and personal history, through the lens of Stahl’s own bent perspective, Nein, Nein, Nein! stands out as a triumph of strange-o reporting, a tale that takes us from gang polkas to tour-rash to the truly disturbing snack bar at Auschwitz. Strap in for a raw, surreal, and redemptively hilarious trip. Get on the bus."
Opinion: I could not finish this one-I gave it my standard 100 pages. It was very jumpy-between subjects and stories. Felt like I either needed to have ADHD or be high (not that I have had any experience with this) in order to comprehend Stahl's writing.
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