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3.71 AVERAGE
3.71 AVERAGE
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
I'm not the biggest fan of modern fiction... but this book had some really powerful beautiful moments. enjoyed it overall.
Wow, A Clever, New, Different Novel from my new favourite author
I really enjoyed this book, it was like nothing I have ever read before.
The story starts with Sasha a troubled young women who works for Bennie Salazar, an infamous record producer. Throughout the novel we learn about Sasha and Bennie's past, present and future all told through the eyes of people who knew, know or will know them.
Working on the principle of 6 degrees of separation (We all know each other through at least six other people)this novel uses short stories surrounding Sasha and Bennie to tell a story of success and failure, function and dysfunction and even love and hate. It is a very clever novel which kept me captivated from the first chapter through to the last. The writing technique jumps from first person to third seamlessly and there is even a chapter written solely in the PowerPoint format.
If you are looking for something new and different as well as captivating and easy to read then this is definitely for you.
I really enjoyed this book, it was like nothing I have ever read before.
The story starts with Sasha a troubled young women who works for Bennie Salazar, an infamous record producer. Throughout the novel we learn about Sasha and Bennie's past, present and future all told through the eyes of people who knew, know or will know them.
Working on the principle of 6 degrees of separation (We all know each other through at least six other people)this novel uses short stories surrounding Sasha and Bennie to tell a story of success and failure, function and dysfunction and even love and hate. It is a very clever novel which kept me captivated from the first chapter through to the last. The writing technique jumps from first person to third seamlessly and there is even a chapter written solely in the PowerPoint format.
If you are looking for something new and different as well as captivating and easy to read then this is definitely for you.
13 interwoven character stories, mainly around a music producer & his assistant. “Time is a goon”. Interesting experimental format
Wow! The complexity of the connections. Great writing and depth. The ending was a little let down for me, but still a 5 star read.
emotional
funny
reflective
relaxing
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
adventurous
emotional
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I received this book as a present from my husband. I really enjoyed it; although it is not your normal novel. At times the story is very dark. Sometimes the chapters seem to be little vignettes. Yet, somehow they all tie in at the end. This is not something I would ordinarily choose to read, but I am glad I did.
You don't have to be a once-been-has-been punk rocker to read this or like this or be scared shitless by this because no matter who you are youth is a funny, fleeting thing. You will never feel young enough in the moment. A decade passes and you miss that youth and get all nostalgic. And STILL you fail to recognize your current youth until another decade passes and you do the same damn thing.
One day you're snorting coke lines off a young girl's rear end.
One day you're lying in a bed using a bedpan.
See?
Liked it but didn't love it but was practically forced to think and to admire the writing.
That is until the end, where I think it took a nosedive. Like that moment when you leap off the stage to crowd surf, but you're the only one participating.
One day you're snorting coke lines off a young girl's rear end.
One day you're lying in a bed using a bedpan.
See?
Liked it but didn't love it but was practically forced to think and to admire the writing.
That is until the end, where I think it took a nosedive. Like that moment when you leap off the stage to crowd surf, but you're the only one participating.
I really don't see why this book was hyped so very much. The chapters I enjoyed were Xs and Os, which discussed concepts of experiential reality; Great Rock and Roll Pauses, which was told in PowerPoint, but was more interesting because of the musical conceptual study of pauses in rock and roll; and the final chapter, Pure Language, because it is particularly academic in nature about language and its evolution in contemporary American society.
The only character I felt anything for was Bennie, and I found the other characters particularly flat and uninteresting. The chronology of the story was somewhat interesting, but not enough to overshadow the fact that it didn't deliver enough of the punk scene as I anticipated it would.
The only character I felt anything for was Bennie, and I found the other characters particularly flat and uninteresting. The chronology of the story was somewhat interesting, but not enough to overshadow the fact that it didn't deliver enough of the punk scene as I anticipated it would.