Review of "The Averageness of Grant Pech" by Rob Scoda

I wanted to like this book. It seemed like it would have a fresh perspective on the question of "why are we here."

 The main character was so extremely unlikable that it was difficult to be sympathetic, or even empathetic, in his quest to prove that his "averageness" was hindering his success at being in a committed relationship and he wanted to change that. Even his very few friends reached the point to where they went out of their way to avoid him and, at one point, even cut themselves off from him. His quest to prove his theory of his innate average qualities came across as an extremely self-absorbed "Debbie Downer" wanting to prove that he was right and everyone else was wrong.

In the end, through months of psychoanalysis and testing his "theories", he decided that he wanted to embrace being average and really didn't ever want to be in a committed relationship. Wait...what?

This book was written in first-person and came across as if it was a failed doctoral thesis where the subject, once it was determined that they wrong in their theory, basically stuck out his tongue at the world and stomped away pouting that what they were trying to prove wasn't what they wanted after all.  I seriously struggled to finish this book and would think twice about reading more by this author in the future. I

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My rating:  😐😐/5