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AEIOU: Any Easy Intimacy by Jeffrey Brown
More autobiographical troubles with women are presented in Jeffrey Brown's AEIOU: Any Easy Intimacy (2005, Top Shelf Productions, Amazon listing). This time he focuses on his relationship with Sophia, who he is set up with by a friend.

If you've read Brown before, you know what you are going to get here: crudely-drawn, but oddly engaging panels; a quick read; some humor, some sentimentality; and an unhappy and unsatisfied Brown by the end.

This book seemed more episodic than some of his others. There were some strange breaks that can either be read as the way that memory works or lazy narrative structure. You can choose. Not as strong as some of his other works, but a pleasant enough read. After reading a number of Brown's books, I don't want to continue reading them since they seem pretty much the same, but as much as I want to dislike them, I find myself enjoying the short time I'm with them.

AEIOU: Any Easy Intimacy 3 stars (out of 5)
posted by Sean McGurr at 8:00 AM