Benny’s Reviews > Service > Status Update

Think I'm gonna have to DNF... which SUCKS because the first 100 pages were such a blast but nothing has changed except now Sean is being taken to court over unpaid debt and hes annoying and pretentious and every page I labour to reach the end of is a reminder that my life is finite and I could be reading something else... ergh

genuinely I think like 70% of this guy's problems could be remedied with a pair of loop earplugs. dude is just overstimulated 24/7 man get some ear protection

this is def a marmite book . if the tone doesn't shift at ALL in the next two hundred plus pages I may flag and change my tune but so far I LOVE YEAST!!

'Then there was the pressing matter of what to write. Yes, give it one last push, but of what onto what? To write in a thinly disguised autobiographical manner and document the life of a middle-aged bookseller with frustrated artistic aspirations? No, I could never stoop that low. If I must insist on going through with this, at least address something relevant and contemporary. Write a novel about... gentrification.'

I see a potential future self in these pages and my word is it sobering.