I Just Want My Pants Back: A Novel
by David Rosen
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Author: David RosenEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2007-08-07
ISBN: 076792794X
Number of pages: 240
Publisher: Broadway
Book Reviews of I Just Want My Pants Back: A Novel
Book Review: A Zippy Debut Novel
Summary: 5 Stars
"I Just Want My Pants Back" was a great debut novel. It's about a young man living in New York City, just trying to enjoy life. He wants something more out of it, but he's not sure what yet, and he doesn't have the ambition needed to go for it. For the time being, he just wants his pants back, and for a little while, that becomes his main focus. He loses his favorite pair of jeans to a one-night stand. She won't return his phone calls, texts, or emails. This isn't the main story arc, though. It just creeps up every so often (like a pair of jeans on a hot August day).
The main character, Jason, enjoys drinking, hanging with friends, drinking, smoking pot, drinking, and occasionally getting laid. In between, he tries to get to work on time to a casting agency, fighting nasty hangovers.
While Jason never totally "grows up," he does come to a few realizations and truths along the way. Especially when being asked to perform a wedding ceremony for two of his best friends and hanging out with his cancer-striken next door neighbor. I, thankfully, am glad that the author chose not to totally change Jason's character. After all, he's still a young man who wants to enjoy life...and he should. That's what that time is for.
Rosen's writing is very likable. It provides an easy, conversational read with tidbits of humor sprinkled throughout. Additionally, some of his descriptions were extremely creative, vivid, funny, and really stuck in my mind as fantastic sentences. Examples include:
"I definitely preferred vodka to regular potatoes."
"To say I felt like dogsh*t would be an insult to dogsh*t."
"A virgin running from you is historically not a good sign."
"You had to be seriously committed to be Goth in summer."
I definitely look forward to more novels by new novelist, David Rosen. His humorous, conversational writing reminds me of another of my favorite "new" authors, Adam Davies, and his debut novel, The Frog King.
Summary of I Just Want My Pants Back: A Novel
Now a new MTV series, from acclaimed director and executive producer Doug Liman (?Mr. and Mrs. Smith, ?Swingers,? ?Go,? ?The Bourne Identity?)Jason Strider is a twentysomething young man with an English degree from an Ivy League university, a very small apartment in New York, a vapid job as a receptionist at a casting agency?and no particular idea what to do with his life. On most evenings he gets stoned and goes out, sometimes with his long-time best friend and wingman Tina and sometimes alone, if not to get laid then at least to get hammered enough to really regret it the next day and be late for work.
Then one night Jason has athletic, appliance-assisted intercourse with a cute girl named Jane?and ends up lending her his favorite Dickies jeans. Many unanswered e-mails and text messages later, he is reduced to the plaint ?I just want my pants back.? How he does, in a most unexpected way, find those pants and how he is forced to face his immaturity?and mortality?are at the heart of this smart, raunchily comic and deeply affecting novel.
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