Afterwards being dumped by his longtime girlfriend, twenty-eight-year-old Justin Halpern found himself living at home together with his seventy-three-year-old dad. Sam Halpern, who is "like Socrates, but angrier, and together with worse hair," has never minced words, and when Justin moved back home, he began to record all the ridiculous things his dad said to him: ...
Next to the exhortation at the beginning of Moby-Dick, "Call me Ishmael," the first sentence of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice must be among the much quoted in literature. And certainly ...