kingjason's review
5.0
Grr don't you hate it when you do an awesome review and Goodreads doesn't save it!!!!! Here's my slightly less amazing attempt 2 of a review.
The main character of this book, Vicente, reminded me a lot of Henry Chinaski. He works crap jobs for little money, he hates his co-workers, the customers and management, when the time to leave the job arises he has no issue walking away. He drinks, he goes with messed up crazy women, they mistreat him and he mistreats them back. He drinks more, finds a whore and gets into fights he stands no chance of winning. He isn't at full Chinaski standards but he is certainly working his way there.
Eggleton's writing is smoother than Bukowski so he brings his own style to the story and character. He has also produced some fantastic lines, my favourite is;
"He was rather dense. Actually, he was dumber than hammered shit."
I plan to use that line to describe one of my co-workers.
A real good read and a must for Bukowski fans.
The main character of this book, Vicente, reminded me a lot of Henry Chinaski. He works crap jobs for little money, he hates his co-workers, the customers and management, when the time to leave the job arises he has no issue walking away. He drinks, he goes with messed up crazy women, they mistreat him and he mistreats them back. He drinks more, finds a whore and gets into fights he stands no chance of winning. He isn't at full Chinaski standards but he is certainly working his way there.
Eggleton's writing is smoother than Bukowski so he brings his own style to the story and character. He has also produced some fantastic lines, my favourite is;
"He was rather dense. Actually, he was dumber than hammered shit."
I plan to use that line to describe one of my co-workers.
A real good read and a must for Bukowski fans.
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