Review: Person by Sam Pink

I want don’t want to write a conventional review of this book. I just want to tell everyone how great I think this book is.

• It is a book that I could have read in one sitting but after reading the first 2 chapters, I deliberately made myself only read 1-2 chapters a day so that it would last longer.
• The main character is very funny but also sad.
• The roommate character is also very funny.
• The whole book is very funny.
• The dialogue is great (meaning the actual words in the actual order used in the conversations in the book).
• The structure of the dialogue is unique and inventive.
• The structure of the overall story is also inventive.
• Chapter 7 about Jimbo’s is probably my favorite.
• That last bullet point was hard to choose because I like the whole book a lot.
• You should buy a copy and read only 1 chapter at a time.
• I would call this book an early twentieth first century “classic.”
• This is the kind of book that has inspired me to write more. Inspired me to want to write more.

Here is an excerpt:

Today I tell my roommate how I’ve been regularly taking a multivitamin.

He tells me to prove it by punching through a car window as we walk the streets back from the grocery store.

I am holding more groceries than him.

a book review by Jeremy Spencer. I am not trying to kiss ass or diss hard with these reviews. They are just an honest opinion of what I read. Please feel free to contact me at editor@thescrambler.com if you want to send me your thoughts about this review or the book being reviewed.