Weirdo

by Damion Hamilton

The anti--hero of the novel drifts through life confused. A coming of age confessional about being young, dumb, confused yet hopeful. The narrator takes an often abrasive look at the society around him Hoping to find his way in life. Will the author be able to find love and compassion at the end? A confessional, semi autobiographical novel in the the same vein, as Henry Miller, Charles Bukowski and John and Dan Fante.

61 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 18, 2018

About the author

Damion Hamilton writes real and authentic poetry. He believes that it is important to laugh and to cry, if that how you feel. His poems have been compared to everyone from Langston Hughes to Charles Bukowski.
He loves his readers.

Reviews

[Cookie M. · Rating 1 out of 5]

I can't read this book. I don't know if it is the author trying to write in the vernacular, or if this is the way he really writes, but I cannot follow one paragraph. Th grammar, the sentence structure, the incorrect word use confused me too much.
I hear people talking this way all the time on the train, on the city streets, but they are not talking to me, and if they are we are making a two way effort to understand each other.
It doesn't work in a book. Sorry. A truly great writer, Twain, Dickens, Morrison can find a way to write in dialect so well the average reader can puzzle it out. Damion Hamilton cannot do it.

I received this book free in exchange for an honest review on Goodreads.

[Mary · Rating 5 out of 5]

Interesting read

[Amanda Rene Sowers-Durbin · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent prose

Worthy of reading. Heartfelt quick read. Really enjoyed this read. I tend to enjoy loose thought, prose style writing. The imagery is certainly there-more than in books that are two or three times the size of this one. A contemporary of Bukowski in the making with less self loathing, though on the way to it.

[Jake · Rating 4 out of 5]

Thank you to NetGalley for providing me with a copy of this.

I read this in one sitting and it massively grew on me. I started off thinking it was awful and kinda cringe, but that is the narrator.

You have to prepare yourself for mistakes, errors, bad punctuation and capitalisation. I am pretty certain It is deliberate.

This is a novella that reads like a long diary entry, or maybe a long letter you would write out for a therapist, if you weren't poor.

It's the story of Damon, a member of the "underclass" (to quote him), struggling to channel his intellect in such a rough environment, and failing to thrive as he undoubtedly would under different circumstances.

He's not really a bad guy or a good guy. He's a product of his environment.

Short but definitely not sweet. Except the final sentence.

[Amanda · Rating 3 out of 5]

Weirdo

Weird. Not bad, just weird. Mostly about a man in his 20s searching for sex. The typos drove me nuts and the font changed about three quarters of the way through on the Kindle version. It was very distracting. Overall, I would possibly read something else by the author if I came across it. Likely wouldn’t search for something.

[Mr.Guy · Rating 1 out of 5]

Got the digital version from Net Galley!
I did not like this one. It was really hard for me to get into and keep reading despite how short it is. I don’t know what else to say other than it’s just not my kind of book.