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Supermarket

Bobby Hall

2.98 AVERAGE

lowercase_y's review against another edition

5.0

fav book
funny and relatable to me, put words to my feelings
never boring
scary but comical
unpredictable to me

jthibo3's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

ktcarden21's review against another edition

2.0

medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

thelegendofrin's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark funny mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: N/A

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

spookytay's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark funny 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

voivoivoi183's review against another edition

2.0

If I was 15 and was starting to explore books and had never heard of Fight Club then I suppose it’s possible that I might’ve thought this book was pretty good.

It started off sort of OK, a few cringy moments but nothing too terrible but then the foreshadowing started not long in and he couldn’t have made what was coming more obvious if he’d written that the main character had a Fight Club poster on his wall and named the antagonist Tyler instead of Frank.

By the time the ‘shocking’ plot twist came half way through, the book was actually making me laugh out loud. Then he has the inspirational idea to do EXACTLY THE SAME TWIST AGAIN in the second half but with a different character! To make it even more laughable the character is just copied wholesale from Morgan Freeman in The Shawshank Redemption and he even NAMES THE CHARACTER ‘RED’! I honestly spent the whole of the second half of the book either laughing or shaking my head in disbelief.

To be absolutely fair I got the idea to read this book from a discussion about bad books so I guess in that respect I got what I was expecting. It did make me laugh quite a bit but I’m fairly certain that wasn’t the authors intention for the most part. It’s hard to believe that at no point during the process that no one stopped to point out how derivative the plot is and how poorly it’s written. Even though I understand that the writer has had mental health problems and I guess it’s trying to be compassionate it also comes over as pretty insulting to people with genuine serious mental health illnesses.

I’ve bumped up the rating from one star only because I think the minimalist cover/spine design is quite striking.

fayelovesbooksss's review against another edition

4.0

This book had me doubling back to reread because of how many twists there were. I never would've expected how good this read was; it started very slow and I wasn't sure if I was going to make it through, but when I tell you it's completely worth the wait of reading through the first hundred pages, I mean it. This book will leave you conflicted and satisfied, and I don't think there's any other way to say it but lets hope he decides to write again :)