Review: impressive debut
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 08 14, 2013
I picked this book up because it was labeled humor, and because it seemed to be about slacker guys, a group in which I have more than passing interest.It is humorous, it is about slackers. It's more than that; it is to men's fiction what women's fiction is to the romance genre. Good solid structure, like a Hornsby novel, an Apatow movie, or a women's fiction novel with embedded romance. A little slow in spots, but you expect that in a first novel. It held my interest because I have half a brain. Cast of dozens. They sort themselves out eventually, especially the slackers. It's especially enlightening to see the slackers from the inside; they are depicted as unexpectedly, intensely emotional and predictably sucky at dealing with that.It's very long.I found myself getting back to it and skipping my own work time so I could read more.Nice work.