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2.98 AVERAGE
2.98 AVERAGE
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I was looking forward to reading this as the plot sounded interesting and I enjoy Logic’s music, but the stream of consciousness type of blabbering lead me to lose interest. I figured out the plot before the halfway point and the female characters are very one dimensional.
The overall idea was interesting, I just wish it had been executed better.
The overall idea was interesting, I just wish it had been executed better.
dark
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Recommended to me by a friend, Supermarket is the story of a young writer who gets dumped by the love of his life after she gets tired of waiting for him to finish his book after several years of living in his mother’s basement. This break up triggers a such mental breakdown for Flynn, but a publishing house shows interest in an idea of his everything turns around for Flynn. Now contracted to write a novel about a supermarket, Flynn gets a job at the local market and starts his novel.
I don’t think I would say that I particularly loved this. Flynn mostly feels like a very pathetic ‘poor me’ type, and I think he would drive me crazy as a human. However I will say that the novel takes a very sharp twist about halfway through that while predictable did help
I don’t think I would say that I particularly loved this. Flynn mostly feels like a very pathetic ‘poor me’ type, and I think he would drive me crazy as a human. However I will say that the novel takes a very sharp twist about halfway through that while predictable did help
adventurous
challenging
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I. Loved. This. Book.
Bobby Hall surprised me with this one. I am a Logic fan, love the Supermarket Album with all my heart and was always interested in reading the book.
The audiobook was fantastic! Loved that the author narrated it himself! Second part surprised me with its twists etc.
Highly enjoyable, will defo read it again!
Only minus point is the way that Mia´s dialogue was written - it felt flat and women don´t really speak that way.
Bobby Hall surprised me with this one. I am a Logic fan, love the Supermarket Album with all my heart and was always interested in reading the book.
The audiobook was fantastic! Loved that the author narrated it himself! Second part surprised me with its twists etc.
Highly enjoyable, will defo read it again!
Only minus point is the way that Mia´s dialogue was written - it felt flat and women don´t really speak that way.
What a whirlwind of emotions I experienced when reading this book. 4 stars because I didn’t get the ending I wanted.
This one was very weird.
Little bit of a backstory: Back in my sophmore year, I was in my school's cross country team and I had a teammate who was like THE biggest Logic fan. I had caught him reading this book while we were at the hotel waiting for our run. Of course, since I was still a "new" reader at the time, I got curious and requested this book from the library.
Look, I love mysteries and thrillers.
This book was more like a psychological-thriller/comedy and, of course, that can work. I wasn't really excited picking this up (and I never listened to Logic, I only knew that 1-800 song that kept getting spammed on the radio), but I kinda had a hope that this would be decent.
Nope. I hated it. Absolutely hated it.
I didn't like the characters a single bit, the protagonist is a pissy asshat and MY GOD, the amount of N-words and dudes wanting to bang every single female coworker is so atrocious, like WHY??
Also, how many commas and run on sentences does this book have to use?!
And the whole "Whoa-I-suddenly-have-schizophrenia" thing is really outdated, to the point where it just becomes predictable at this point. It's just so uncreative.
Little bit of a backstory: Back in my sophmore year, I was in my school's cross country team and I had a teammate who was like THE biggest Logic fan. I had caught him reading this book while we were at the hotel waiting for our run. Of course, since I was still a "new" reader at the time, I got curious and requested this book from the library.
Look, I love mysteries and thrillers.
This book was more like a psychological-thriller/comedy and, of course, that can work. I wasn't really excited picking this up (and I never listened to Logic, I only knew that 1-800 song that kept getting spammed on the radio), but I kinda had a hope that this would be decent.
Nope. I hated it. Absolutely hated it.
I didn't like the characters a single bit, the protagonist is a pissy asshat and MY GOD, the amount of N-words and dudes wanting to bang every single female coworker is so atrocious, like WHY??
Also, how many commas and run on sentences does this book have to use?!
And the whole "Whoa-I-suddenly-have-schizophrenia" thing is really outdated, to the point where it just becomes predictable at this point. It's just so uncreative.
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
The absolute worst book I've ever read. How did this even end up in my pile? Maybe I could look past the racist tropes (magical Red), casual misogyny, and derivative claptrap, if the writing weren't such an anemic mess. I don't even like to write bad reviews, but someone needs to wrap this book in caution tape. A vanity project gone horribly horribly wrong.
dark
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I couldn’t get the main character. Is what he’s experiencing real, or just the delusions of a schizophrenic? It was just too much work to slog through without a reward
I've had my eye on this book for ages. I've picked it up and put it back on the shelf at work more times than I can count. Finally, I decided to sod it, and get the £12.99 paperback. I was doing the typical reader thing of 'I don't want this odd-sized paperback on my shelf'.
I'm so glad I decided to. I took this away with me to Sicily and read most of it on the plane journey home. I absolutely flew through it (yay for an unintentional pun), I couldn't turn the pages fast enough. I needed to know what was going to happen next. Which surprised me as I tend to struggle to get through any book that falls within the 'crime/thriller' genre.
Supermarket follows Flynn, whose life is a little upsidedown at the moment. Recently dumped, living with his mother and not really sure how to get back on his feet. Then he decides that he wants to work at a Supermarket to help with some research for a book he wants to write, the one he's finally going to finish. Then he arrives one day at work to a crime scene and his entire world is turned upside down.
Honestly, this is the kind of book where the less you know the better. It's not one where you can guess what's going to happen, and really at times, you can't tell whats going on. But that's the genius of this book, as you read more and more layers are added on to the narrative. It reminds me of the film Inception, but with Supermarket it's more like a story within a story within a story and you can't tell what the REAL story arc is. We learn about each layer as Flynn does, we watch his world unravel and explode.
Just read it. I promise you'll have your mind blown.
I'm so glad I decided to. I took this away with me to Sicily and read most of it on the plane journey home. I absolutely flew through it (yay for an unintentional pun), I couldn't turn the pages fast enough. I needed to know what was going to happen next. Which surprised me as I tend to struggle to get through any book that falls within the 'crime/thriller' genre.
Supermarket follows Flynn, whose life is a little upsidedown at the moment. Recently dumped, living with his mother and not really sure how to get back on his feet. Then he decides that he wants to work at a Supermarket to help with some research for a book he wants to write, the one he's finally going to finish. Then he arrives one day at work to a crime scene and his entire world is turned upside down.
Honestly, this is the kind of book where the less you know the better. It's not one where you can guess what's going to happen, and really at times, you can't tell whats going on. But that's the genius of this book, as you read more and more layers are added on to the narrative. It reminds me of the film Inception, but with Supermarket it's more like a story within a story within a story and you can't tell what the REAL story arc is. We learn about each layer as Flynn does, we watch his world unravel and explode.
Just read it. I promise you'll have your mind blown.