Vincent Williams’s Reviews > J R > Status Update

Laughing out loud. 12 year old explaining hostile takeovers, depreciation, and business write offs to his struggling musician business associate in a bathroom of the MET.

“Excuse me.” A button glowed.

I promise I’m still reading this. IT’S HARD!

“Don’t tell me things I don’t want to know and I won’t bother you.”

She leaned forward to turn on the radio, fleeing one wad of sound for another.

“…scratching to dig through envelopes marked Personal, Here is the Information You Requested, Bonus Offer Inside; flyers headed Immediate Cash Commissions Paid on Every Sale, Prospects and Customers Everywhere, How to Make Big Profits Overseas; letters opening Dear Friend, Dear Sir, Is You Future Worth Five Minutes? Take a Good Look in the Mirror, closing Cordially, Yours for Success…”

“And turn off that noise. Noise, you’ll hide in noise any chance you get . .”

When do I meet the main character?

726 pages, why do I think I can do this with a toddler and newborn brain? But the opportunity to satirize financial capitalism via novel? Priceless (pun intended).

Once I’m done, I’ll be a master at context clues. No narration? Pure dialogue? No chapters? Novel as entropy.