Supermarket

Wow. This book is BAD.
It might be one of the worst novels I’ve ever read.

I was browsing through the bookstore looking to pick up a few new reads and grabbed this one. Sounded interesting. I have no clue who Logic is so I picked this one based solely on the synopsis written on the back of the book.

I read the whole book pretty quickly, so it is an “easy read” and the issue isn’t necessarily with the basic idea behind the book, the issue is that the writing is HORRIBLE. It reads as though a 6th grader wrote it. I was cringing at almost every line throughout the entire book. I’d love to leave some examples but I’d have to just copy and paste the entire book here. Just trust me- it’s bad to the point of being embarrassing. I’m no literary snob either, I’ve read a LOT of books in my life and can appreciate a book that is easy to read (I prefer them!) but this is just ridiculous.

The characters have no depth. You don’t care about or relate to any of them because all you know about them is they are “hot” or “sweet” or a “kind of dumb-looking like a bimbo who gets by on her looks- but she was intelligent. Just naive-seeming”. Yes, that’s an actual description from this book.

And can someone who’s finished this please explain to me if we are supposed to have the “twist” to this train wreck figured out immediately?! Because this was all very predictable and it was almost laughable reading the author attempting to “hint” the twist.

When I finished this and checked amazon and see hundreds and hundreds of 5 star reviews the only thing I can assume is they are fans of his? I mean, I know everyone can have an opinion of a story but this book is just so terribly written that it doesn’t matter what the hell the story is. The writing is bad, and I don’t think that’s an opinion, it’s a fact!

At least when you get to the acknowledgements it all does make a little more sense. The author basically says he never read a novel in his life, then “binge-read novels for a week” in his 20s and decided “I’m gonna write a book!”.
Thank god for him he’s famous enough now for people to pacify whatever he randomly decides to do because that’s the only way this garbage would be published.

P.s. I’ve ready hundreds of books and never in my life written a review of one.
This was that bad.

This is the first book I've ever read that I have no desire to finish. Maybe you'd enjoy this if you've never read a book in your life. The prose is trash, to an embarassing degree. This published work wouldn't fly as a rough draft in most ENG 101 classes. There are literally 50 "it was like" similes in the first 30 pages. Everything about this book is elemetary and you can hear him stroking his own ego in the subtext. Logic thinks he's really smart and he wants you to know it. The fourth wall breaking is cliche, the self referential narrative, also cliche, and he spends more time describing name brand products than bulding characters. When he described a college woman who the main character just met as "someone who was probably molested and thus tries to hurt other people before they can hurt her" as a TYPE of woman I almost puked. He's biting literally every fiction cliche there is but acts like he invented it. His views in this book about women are super problematic, he thinks his trauma is more important than the experiences of others, and its creepy that he thanks one of the female characters in the book in the epilogue. Save your 10 bucks and check out a Chuck Palahniuk book from the library.

Don’t know why people are putting one star because the book came damaged. These reviews are supposed to be about the book itself and let me tell you it is a masterpiece! I have fully delved into logic’s mind and I’m only halfway through. He is such a talented artist. Highly recommend this book to anyone! Fair warning, there is cussing if any children want to read it.

"It was a dark and stormy night"...
Or as just as basic... It read more like my high school literature class paper... Really really poor writing.

It's not a good book. The writing is amateurish at best and the story is a mishmash of other famous stories to create one semi-cohesive one. The plot is formulaic and I saw the "twists" coming a mile away. There are parts of the book that seem so implausible that it just takes away from the story so much. It's hard to take it seriously and I struggle to know what I'm supposed to take away from the story. Also, I think the author does a real disservice on what is mental illness and how people suffering from it behave. Steer clear of this one.

One of the greatest to ever do it. The Rattpack loves and appreciates you, Bobby. 💯

I picked up this book after coming here to look for reviews, and with an almost perfect rating I thought to myself it was worth a shot. Clearly the good reviews are just his fans, because this book would never have been published if he wasn’t someone who was already famous. In fact, if I were to turn anything like this in for a college assignment, scratch that, high school assignment, I would be chewed apart. The writing is predictable, and very juvenile. I’m appalled that this was given the “ok” to be put on shelves and not edited more to make it feel like he actually cared about the quality of the read. Bobby Hall, stick to music. There are many people out here who trying to really make it and taking seriously their writing careers and you’re taking away a shot of their work by putting something like this out on the market. You’ve binged read novels for the first time in your life, inspired to write a book of your own. This doesn’t mean you should.

Disappointing.

I agree it's annoying when people review the shipping and not the product. Hate it.

It's also annoying to read 5-star reviews for a throughly mediocre, derivative book. I read the whole thing because it was a quick read, but I probably should've given up early on. If you read the blurb on the back and are familiar with the references, then you can guess 90% of how the plot is going to unfold after reading the first 20 or so pages. Read Fight Club instead of this and you'll be the better for it.

I absolutely love reading, and I'm never one to write bad reviews but I really felt the need for this one. I cannot believe so many people gave this book such a high review. This is honestly one of the reasons I decided to read it. The writing was terrible! It was like something a middle schooler wrote...SO many cheesy lines. I found myself embarrassed for this author. I'm one of those people that has to finish a book they've started, no matter how bad. I also wanted to be fair and read the entire thing before I began criticizing it. The second I closed the book I was so pissed I had wasted my time reading such a disaster as this. There is SO much rambling, it definitely could have been a lot shorter to get to the ridiculous ending. So, so bad :(