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Original Title:	Want Not
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Want Not

Jonathan Miles

Kindle Edition | Pages: 403 pages

Rating: 3.68 | 2720 Users | 438 Reviews

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A compulsively readable, deeply human novel that examines our most basic and unquenchable emotion: want.  With his critically acclaimed first novel Dear American Airlines, Jonathan Miles was widely praised as a comic genius “after something bigger” (David Ulin, Los Angeles Times) whose fiction was “not just philosophically but emotionally rewarding” (Richard Russo, New York Times Book Review, front cover).

Now, in his much anticipated second novel, Want Not, Miles takes a giant leap forward with this highly inventive and corrosively funny story of our times, a three-pronged tale of human excess that sifts through the detritus of several disparate lives—lost loves, blown chances, countless words and deeds misdirected or misunderstood—all conjoined in their come-hell-or-high-water search for fulfillment.

As the novel opens on Thanksgiving Day, readers are telescoped into three different worlds in various states of disrepair—a young freegan couple living off the grid in New York City; a once-prominent linguist, sacked at midlife by the dissolution of his marriage and his father’s losing battle with Alzheimer’s; and a self-made debt-collecting magnate, whose brute talent for squeezing money out of unlikely places has yielded him a royal existence, trophy wife included.

Want and desire propel these characters forward toward something, anything, more, until their worlds collide, briefly, randomly, yet irrevocably, in a shattering ending that will haunt readers long after the last page is turned.

With a satirist’s eye and a romantic’s heart, Miles captures the morass and comedy of contemporary life in all its excess. Bold, unblinking, unforgettable in its irony and pathos, Want Not is a wicked, bighearted literary novel that confirms the arrival of a major voice in American fiction.

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Title	:	Want Not
Author	:	Jonathan Miles
Book Format	:	Kindle Edition
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 403 pages
Published	:	November 5th 2013 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Categories	:	Fiction. Humor

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Ratings: 3.68 From 2720 Users | 438 Reviews

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It's a book that gave me a lot of trouble. I would pick it up, inch forward in terms of pages even though I'd be reading for hours, set it back down and forget about it for a number of days. But ultimately, I ended up loving it. So much that I'm not even docking a star for the initial drag-a-thon. There are three different stories, intersecting very little, if at all. A freegan couple, Micah and Talmadge, experiencing change in their relationship towards each other and towards their ism when a

My life is to short and I have no desire to continue reading a book that literally takes a dump on the reader less than half way through.Are you consumerist animals entirely tied to our need to accumulate things? Would you like to read some amateur philosophy on how our decadent lifestyle is destroying your soul? Do you want to read about soulless people so you can genuflect at the alter of self-hatred, finishing with a desire to throw out all your stuff and truly live in the moment? Really,

As I read this I kept thinking of On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft where Stephen King warns idealistic authors not to focus on themes in their fiction. Just write a good story, he says, and the themes will evolve. I wondered whether Jonathan Miles followed this advice. Certainly the novel didn't suffer for this, but the themes were prominent and it's hard to imagine he didn't work from theme --> story as opposed to the other way around.The aptly titled Want Not focuses heavily on themes of

I had very high hopes for Want Not, so high I was hoping Mr. Miles would become another member of the pantheon of highly regarded Jonathan-named authors (Jonathan Lethem, Jonathan Franzen, Jonathan Safran Foer). Miles' novel is about New York (always pulls me in), the waste and excesses of modern society (I live with this professionally), and alternative lifestyles (e.g., Freegans). Mr. Miles also has the second most sought after pedigree in literary fiction, as described on the back flap he is

Ive been working to declutter my house for the last six years, ever since the death of a loved one made me see the burden we leave behind for others to deal with. Its been a painful process, examining one's feelings about each item and deciding what to keep, for practical or sentimental reasons, and what to get rid of. And its definitely easier to trash than donate, but I just cant send useful things to a landfill. Its a big job after a lifetime of thoughtless accumulation.Still, I wasnt so much

This book was amiable enough until it reached a scene at Yankee Stadium. The Yanks are playing the Indians, all well and good, except all the Yankees the author writes about are real and the only Indians player is made up. I could live with that because the scene created around the fake Indians player is funny and couldn't happen with any real Indians player. My real problem was that the real Yankees players in the scene -- Derek Jeter, Johnny Damon, Hideki Matsui, Jason Giambi -- didn't play

Miles does a great job of presenting the same thesis through three very different worlds. As always happens in these sorts of stories, eventually the three worlds collide in a somewhat unnecessary fashion to provide closure. I agree with Miless politics and I enjoyed the MANY examples of over wanting that he presented. At times, I thought it might be a bit repetitive and preachy, but in general it was a decent read.Miles manages to nestle an important argument within a decent story. The three