Underwood Scotch and Wry (Audible Audio Edition) Brian D Meeks Jack Nolan Books
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Underwood, Scotch, and Wry is a humorous look at social media through the eyes of a Luddite college professor .
Arthur enjoys drinking, the company of his female TAs, and generally being a pain in the butt for the dean of the English department. He has tenure. He hates computers.
The dean hates him.
Watch as Arthur and the dean engage in an angst filled battle to end (or save) his job. This humorous fiction will keep you listening. If you like social media, blogging, and mockery, you'll enjoy my first satire novel Underwood, Scotch, and Wry.
Underwood Scotch and Wry (Audible Audio Edition) Brian D Meeks Jack Nolan Books
Rated 1.5 of 5Arthur Byrne is a college professor with tenure and a penchant for scotch and female teaching assistants and a talent for avoiding technology. The Luddite professor has become a little bit of an embarrassment for the small college, looking to improve and grow, but they can't do much about a tenured professor.
Byrne is assigned to teach a class on Social Media - a tough course for a Luddite who doesn't even like to read emails. But Byrne manages to pull himself together enough to take on the challenge, and with the help of his TA's, he even manages to make the class interesting - to the point of it becoming a much talked-about class. And so the school officials look for another way to remove this blight on the university, hoping to catch him in the act of cavorting with an undergrad.
Will Arthur grow up and become the professor everyone wants to learn from, or will the university catch him with his pants down and finally be able to rid themselves of him?
The book started out quite interestingly and the story held me at the start, but as it went along it grew a little more implausible and the character of Arthur Byrne grew more and more annoying. The character of Byrne came across not as a character with witty, snappy comebacks, but as an extension of the author who was trying to show off how clever he could be. Perhaps this isn't the case, but the snappy comebacks never rang true and his patter, while it might have been fun if he were among friends, really made him out to be a jerk. The description and some of the reviews refer to him as 'snarky' but snarky, as a constant, is straining.
As Byrne got more and more in interested in the topic he was teaching, he became likable. We could see the professor that he could be - someone actually interested in seeing students learning something. But as the students began to take an interest in what he was teaching, his popularity seemed to go to his head and he strutted around, cocky and untouchable. Even a lawsuit by the university doesn't faze him and he walks around as though he's above it all.
As the book ends, our protagonist's misogynistic and hedonistic ways are confirmed and we can't help but wonder if he learned anything valuable at all. We certainly didn't.
Looking for a good book? <em>Underwood, Scotch, and Wry</em> by Brian D. Meeks is a tribute to tenured college professors who play with co-eds and avoid any actual educating, but it is not a recommended read.
I received a digital copy of this book from the publisher, through Netgalley, in exchange for an honest review.
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Underwood Scotch and Wry (Audible Audio Edition) Brian D Meeks Jack Nolan Books Reviews
The first three-quarters of this book was hilarious AND fairly realistic in the way it portrays university politics. My father and a couple of his good friends whom I knew well as a child taught at UT/Dallas, SMU, UT/Austin, OSU (in the fifties when it was Oklahoma A&M), and USM (when it was Mississippi Southern), so I could laugh at the way the professor protagonist handled things. He could do an erudite lecture on a dime and could handle learning something completely new. Four stars for realism.
However . . . *spoiler alert* this book was ABOUT social media and how this prof learned to use it for his benefit and teach things about it to his students. So the road trip to NYC about 3/4 of the way through was not needed. How much more on-theme would it have been to do the interaction with those two people by email or chat room or whatever? This would have shown even MORE how the social media could help someone. I didn't get anything out of the road trip, really. He could have sneaked out to his friend's house, taking his cat, and could have done that by social media. Then we would have reinforced the theme.
I approved of the ending, mostly, although I kind of hated *spoiler* him "getting together" with the TA. He should have been the noble one. This experience (in the book) of realizing he cared about the job and the students after all should have proven his redemption, and he should have held off on any romantic encounters--these could come later, when the TA is no longer being rated or graded by him. It would have made me happier for him to be more noble and more of a role model.
Anyway, though, the way he talked was witty and reminded me so much of my father, whom I still miss (he died when I was 15 and still a stupid little teenybopper, and I never got to talk higher math with him, alas), and of the profs who were his good friends and my other role models. Made me wish I could go back to college and make some sort of contribution. All I can do is write my books and attempt to entertain and inform/educate readers as well as this book did (and further could have/should have, IMHO.)
Recommended for those who like a college milieu and are not offended by a few sorta-off-color remarks.
Eight Stars for Underwood, Scotch and Wry!
If I awarded any more stars, Mr. Meeks might get a case of performance anxiety
and cease writing, and that would be a tragedy indeed IMHO.
Former famous author Arthur Byrne hasn't written in years.
Instead he has a comfy job as an English Lit professor, and a habit of
getting lit at the local pub, Edgar's Pit.
The President of the University and the Dean of Liberal Arts want him out.
The only way to do that is by setting him up to fail - - he is assigned to teach
a class on Social Media. Sounds like a simple class to teach.
Except that Arthur wouldn't know a megabyte if it bit him.
A gig means the musicians have been booked.
Facebook? Isn't that what you look through at the Police Station to identify a mugger?
Can Arthur's Teaching Assistants teach him about modern technology?
Will he be able to hold onto his job?
Will he ever write again?
I really enjoyed reading this story about the wry Professor and his
fresh young TAs and students.
I think this book will be enjoyed by luddites and techies,
young and old, men and women.
Thank you, Brian D. Meeks for writing this wonderful book
and giving me an ARC!
Rated 1.5 of 5
Arthur Byrne is a college professor with tenure and a penchant for scotch and female teaching assistants and a talent for avoiding technology. The Luddite professor has become a little bit of an embarrassment for the small college, looking to improve and grow, but they can't do much about a tenured professor.
Byrne is assigned to teach a class on Social Media - a tough course for a Luddite who doesn't even like to read emails. But Byrne manages to pull himself together enough to take on the challenge, and with the help of his TA's, he even manages to make the class interesting - to the point of it becoming a much talked-about class. And so the school officials look for another way to remove this blight on the university, hoping to catch him in the act of cavorting with an undergrad.
Will Arthur grow up and become the professor everyone wants to learn from, or will the university catch him with his pants down and finally be able to rid themselves of him?
The book started out quite interestingly and the story held me at the start, but as it went along it grew a little more implausible and the character of Arthur Byrne grew more and more annoying. The character of Byrne came across not as a character with witty, snappy comebacks, but as an extension of the author who was trying to show off how clever he could be. Perhaps this isn't the case, but the snappy comebacks never rang true and his patter, while it might have been fun if he were among friends, really made him out to be a jerk. The description and some of the reviews refer to him as 'snarky' but snarky, as a constant, is straining.
As Byrne got more and more in interested in the topic he was teaching, he became likable. We could see the professor that he could be - someone actually interested in seeing students learning something. But as the students began to take an interest in what he was teaching, his popularity seemed to go to his head and he strutted around, cocky and untouchable. Even a lawsuit by the university doesn't faze him and he walks around as though he's above it all.
As the book ends, our protagonist's misogynistic and hedonistic ways are confirmed and we can't help but wonder if he learned anything valuable at all. We certainly didn't.
Looking for a good book? <em>Underwood, Scotch, and Wry</em> by Brian D. Meeks is a tribute to tenured college professors who play with co-eds and avoid any actual educating, but it is not a recommended read.
I received a digital copy of this book from the publisher, through Netgalley, in exchange for an honest review.
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