09-04-2009, 01:47 PM
The title is all black, lower-case Helvetica superimposed over six dlicious-looking donuts. How could I not buy it?
Also - Stephen King provided a glowing blurb on the back AND it was in the clearance section. Sounds promising, right?
It was actually pretty good.
The author writes in a very matter-of-fact style. No wasting pages and pages by describing the pattern on the silverware someone uses to eat lunch. Just "He ate lunch, paid the check and walked outside". Some authors can devote whole chapters to incidental crap that do nothing to contribute to the story.
This brevity is required by the book because it's a series of incidents, some banal and some bizarre that make up the story. A.M. Holmes takes only a couple pages to describe the rescue of horse from a sinkhole by a movie star and a helicopter because there's a thousand more incidents to get through before the next chapter.
The story follows a wealthy disconnected stockbroker as he tries to figure out how he became so disconnected. The writing really evokes the sense of experiencing events in a lucid daze. The people he meets move the story forward, like the ghosts of Christmas Past move Scrooge forward into a state of enlightenment.
I won't spoil the ending because there isn't one. Just a feeling that maybe everything is going to be OK.
Redemption. I fucking love it.
Also - Stephen King provided a glowing blurb on the back AND it was in the clearance section. Sounds promising, right?
It was actually pretty good.
The author writes in a very matter-of-fact style. No wasting pages and pages by describing the pattern on the silverware someone uses to eat lunch. Just "He ate lunch, paid the check and walked outside". Some authors can devote whole chapters to incidental crap that do nothing to contribute to the story.
This brevity is required by the book because it's a series of incidents, some banal and some bizarre that make up the story. A.M. Holmes takes only a couple pages to describe the rescue of horse from a sinkhole by a movie star and a helicopter because there's a thousand more incidents to get through before the next chapter.
The story follows a wealthy disconnected stockbroker as he tries to figure out how he became so disconnected. The writing really evokes the sense of experiencing events in a lucid daze. The people he meets move the story forward, like the ghosts of Christmas Past move Scrooge forward into a state of enlightenment.
I won't spoil the ending because there isn't one. Just a feeling that maybe everything is going to be OK.
Redemption. I fucking love it.
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