Take a photo of a barcode or cover
2.98 AVERAGE
2.98 AVERAGE
This book feels like a high schooler wrote it. it tries so hard to be hip and unique and full of twists, but falls short in every category. Maybe Logic should stay out of the book business.
Supermarket is okay
The last third of the book is solid but the prose and just general writing style on display here is frustrating. Supermarket wants to be very smart, it wants to be different and unique but it's also a debut novel written by someone who I don't think has a good enough grasp on the literary world to know what would be different, unique, or smart.
This is borderline confirmed in the Acknowledgements at the end of the book where Bobby reveals the project was birthed by him binge reading a few novels and then deciding to write one.
I don't know anything about Logics music I've never listened to it, but I can respect an artist earnestly branching out into a new medium. I think it would be easy to take this kind of mediocre book and get mad and say that the attention it received because it was written by Logic was more deserved by other authors and that is admittedly 100% true.
I don't know if Logic is the type of guy who when writing this book he thought he really has something. Thought he was bringing a new angle to writing. Maybe he just thought he had a cool idea and wanted to bring it to fruition, maybe he's super arrogant and I would be warranted in being as mean as I originally wanted to be when I started writing this.
The first half was unbearable at times and just poorly written for the rest, the ending is decent, and what you find in the middle borders on interesting with a lot of filler. It would probably impress someone who doesn't read a lot and is engaging enough to get them to the end, but I can't imagine recommending this book to anyone. I think the only way it makes sense to read it is how I wound up reading it.
I found it in a used book store and thought the cover was cool without knowing anything else about it.
The last third of the book is solid but the prose and just general writing style on display here is frustrating. Supermarket wants to be very smart, it wants to be different and unique but it's also a debut novel written by someone who I don't think has a good enough grasp on the literary world to know what would be different, unique, or smart.
This is borderline confirmed in the Acknowledgements at the end of the book where Bobby reveals the project was birthed by him binge reading a few novels and then deciding to write one.
I don't know anything about Logics music I've never listened to it, but I can respect an artist earnestly branching out into a new medium. I think it would be easy to take this kind of mediocre book and get mad and say that the attention it received because it was written by Logic was more deserved by other authors and that is admittedly 100% true.
I don't know if Logic is the type of guy who when writing this book he thought he really has something. Thought he was bringing a new angle to writing. Maybe he just thought he had a cool idea and wanted to bring it to fruition, maybe he's super arrogant and I would be warranted in being as mean as I originally wanted to be when I started writing this.
The first half was unbearable at times and just poorly written for the rest, the ending is decent, and what you find in the middle borders on interesting with a lot of filler. It would probably impress someone who doesn't read a lot and is engaging enough to get them to the end, but I can't imagine recommending this book to anyone. I think the only way it makes sense to read it is how I wound up reading it.
I found it in a used book store and thought the cover was cool without knowing anything else about it.
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
mysterious
reflective
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Flynn is a depressed artist who recently went through a horrible break-up with the girl of his dreams and now started working in a supermarket to find inspiration for his book. Throw in a crime scene, interesting co-workers and weird things happening, and you have Supermarket, an incredible down-the-rabbid-hole, mind-altering and reality-bending novel!
"So this is how it feels to take a man's life. Forced to kill for one's survival."
I do not think that I can put into words exactly what SUPERMARKET did to me because of the way it was written, where the twist and turns and altered reality messes with your brain. I liked Flynn as the main character, he was interesting, engaging and could see him as a real human being. There were moments when I was a little frustrated on his behalf and therefore frustrated at him, however, it made sense in the end because he didn't have the tools to manage certain situations. Frank on the other side, was annoying, obnoxious and everything that I hate in a person - and it was meant to be so.
I appreciated the conversation it starts in regards to mental health and the implications of stress and certain events that can have a traumatic impact on an individual. If you've read it, you'll know what I am talking about. I also felt that it all came from a place of knowing, raw and intense. The acknowledgements section - do no skip these ever! - is enlightening in regards to why this novel came to be.
The writing was actually really good I was surprised to find myself sucked into the vivid world of the SUPERMARKET and the altered reality. Not sure if it is just me, but I found some of the twists and revelations predictable just before I should've been wowed. I am also not sure if this is a difference between US and UK mental health institutions, but I had a lot of issues on how that was depicted as I have experience in working in mental health settings and that's not how it works, at least in the UK.
"So this is how it feels to take a man's life. Forced to kill for one's survival."
I do not think that I can put into words exactly what SUPERMARKET did to me because of the way it was written, where the twist and turns and altered reality messes with your brain. I liked Flynn as the main character, he was interesting, engaging and could see him as a real human being. There were moments when I was a little frustrated on his behalf and therefore frustrated at him, however, it made sense in the end because he didn't have the tools to manage certain situations. Frank on the other side, was annoying, obnoxious and everything that I hate in a person - and it was meant to be so.
I appreciated the conversation it starts in regards to mental health and the implications of stress and certain events that can have a traumatic impact on an individual. If you've read it, you'll know what I am talking about. I also felt that it all came from a place of knowing, raw and intense. The acknowledgements section - do no skip these ever! - is enlightening in regards to why this novel came to be.
The writing was actually really good I was surprised to find myself sucked into the vivid world of the SUPERMARKET and the altered reality. Not sure if it is just me, but I found some of the twists and revelations predictable just before I should've been wowed. I am also not sure if this is a difference between US and UK mental health institutions, but I had a lot of issues on how that was depicted as I have experience in working in mental health settings and that's not how it works, at least in the UK.
adventurous
mysterious
fast-paced
Loveable characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
mysterious
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
it’s like he wrote the book and then didn’t read it.
dark
mysterious
reflective
tense
An entertaining and fast paced psychological thriller but somehow also a love story? It's kinda like a unique mash up of writers and lovers, fight club and one who flew over the cookoos nest. But also inception but with writing not dreaming. He gets so into writing his characters for a fiction book that it drives him crazy- he gets stuck in this world he created with the characters he created.
There were a lot of negative reviews on this book, but I still wanted to read it because Logic is one of my favorite rappers. But I held off for a while because of those reviews, and I wish that I had read it sooner because even though it wasn’t great, I had a good time reading it. The story borrowed a bit from other classics, mainly Fight Club, which is why many people (including myself) guessed that twist almost immediately. But one of the things that I really loved about it was the themes about mental health and overcoming it, especially considering what the author has gone through in his own life. Was this great? No, but I enjoyed it and I feel like it was a decent debut that shows promise for Bobby’s next book (if there is one) to be better.