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The Best of Youth
Written by Michael Dahlie
Narrated by Kirby Heyborne
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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Henry Lang is a smart but unassuming young man with a degree from Harvard and limited social skills. After his parents are killed in an accident, leaving him a substantial inheritance, he moves to Brooklyn to see if he can make it in publishing, perhaps fall in love, and attend the sorts of parties and events that he imagines twenty-somethings in Brooklyn frequent. Unfortunately, Henry is somewhat of a target for other, more savvy Brooklynites. He finds himself in a string of increasingly troubling situations and demoralizing romantic adventures. Things finally fall apart for him in catastrophic ways when he agrees to ghost-write a young adult novel for a charismatic but drug-addicted and sometimes-violent actor. Will Henry lose everything he has to save his integrity?
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A story about a meek, hapless man, particularly since it’s told in a fairly serious and not comic vein, doesn’t sound like fodder for a very entertaining novel. But amazingly Michael Dahlie pulls it off in BEST OF YOUTH. Henry is the object of one humiliation after the next here – the literary magazine he bankrolls won’t publish a story he’s written, a woman he’s been to bed with circulates an e-mail letting half of hipster Brooklyn know he’s a milquetoast and bore, and she doesn’t simply confess he’s bad in bed, she also lets his world know he makes funny face when he’s doing it. About all Henry has going for him is that he inherited $15 million when his parents died and that he does seem to have some writing talent, although curiously every story twenty-something Henry wants to tell has someone in their 80s or older as its protagonist. Henry does get involved in some interesting escapades. Without giving too much away, he gets in a mess when he’s first asked to watch over a million-dollar herd of goats and then later to ghost-write a young adult novel for a pompous actor, who thinks he has brilliant ideas about writing, with his most important rule being never to use parentheses. All the while Henry pines for a fourth cousin who has no romantic interest in him. About his only redeeming quality is that he genuinely cares for other people – a quality only his late father seemed to notice. In short order, you do start to root for Henry and the characters in his world are interesting enough and his adversaries rotten enough that you happily keep reading to see if Henry can finally score a few wins in his life.