Review: A Perfect Blend!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 20, 2014
The DoormanThis was my first piece of work I have read by Zack Love. I have been wanting to for what seems like forever. So I was so excited to get finally get to sit and read his work.Alex has just landed a high paying new job on Wall Street and also has moved into a condo on a Fifth Street. Of course he likes having a high paying job but he wants to do something more meaningful. He works so much that he doesn't actually get to enjoy life so really what is the point of making so much money of you can't enjoy it. The only people he talks to outside of work and his father and his girlfriend Anna but really his friends are his doormen, Lenny and Serge. They seem to know everything especially Lenny, if Alex asks him about a random fact he knows the answer....and he has the thought that maybe Lenny is God but then he couldn't be. When tragedy strikes and Alex has been saved from it, he asks himself again Could Lenny be God? He seems to know it all....This Novelette really had me thinking. It's short but really gets your mind going about life and even about death. And of course the in between....what is meaningful for you during your time on earth? Is money or happiness more important? Why does God let things bad happen?I really enjoyed the story and there was so much in it even though it's a novelette. And just a side note, I am Armenian and was surprised that the Armenian Genocide was mentioned. We don't hear about it much...Can't wait to read more of the Short Stories, Screenplays and Comedies for Mr. Zack Love.Quotes:"I want to feel like I am making a difference in this world. And I want some time for living rather than just working. Life is for the living, isn't it? It can't be all just for working."I couldn't explain Lenny any other way. But eventually I came to my senses and realize that he was just one of those game show freaks with an encyclopedia memory. That didn't make him God, did it? Would a God proclaim so regularly how much he likes Patsy's Pizza."But how would you even know that what you were experiencing was euphoric? Don't you need some pain to recognize and savor pleasure?"***My Best Valentine's Day. Ever.This is my First Zack Love Comedy Short Story and I was not disappointed. I was laughing from the very first sentence.Sammy wanted to go to the City for Valentine's Day and even had lines himself up with a first date. It went from being what he thought would be romantic to Being shatted on but he wasn't the only one...and it turns out to be the best Valentine's Day Ever!I love the way Zack writes. It is hilarious but also sweet in there. Valentine's Day can suck but can turn around. Hilarious...Quotes:Summoning my inner Kojak, I tried to convince myself that she would have sat next to me even had there been somewhere else on the bus to sit.I'm Sammy. And the umbrella covering you is Ralph.It was definitely the best Valentine's Day.Ever. I think I grew some extra chest hair after that one.***My Worst Valentine's Day. Ever.Oh Mr. Love how you crack me up!It's Valentine's a Day in New York City of all places so why not try to have as many lays as you can in one Epic Day turned Night? This should have been the Best Valentine's Day Ever in a History if plans would have gone correctly for Yi or Narc...I didn't catch his actual name.But when things are looking like they are going his way everything goes to s*** ...it could have been momentous but it was anything but.I need more short stories! These just made my day...It's just up my alley with the humor.Quotes:Sometimes I wish I could just devote my entire life to the pursuit of pussy but I can't figure out a way to put that on my resume.It's amazing how much a man can forgive when there's bootyliciousness involved.And just when I am about to lay on the Yi-Wang Smooth...