Take a photo of a barcode or cover
ericpschoon 's review for:
Supermarket
by Bobby Hall
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.