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Carregando... Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff: A Novelde Sean Penn
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Disappointing - I had read some of Sean's magazine pieces...but this was disappointing. Seemed liked he was using big words for the sake of big words...that made getting to the story challenging. Just couldn't finish. ( ) I would like to meet someone who: read this entire book- I didn’t And liked it- I absolutely hated it. I can’t imagine anyone liking it. It as if the author wanted to prove that if you are a celebrity (the author is the actor Sean Penn) you can do anything. You can type a bunch of letters that become words and fill entire pages with alliteration and have a whole book about absolutely nothing, and get it published and get paid for it! If that was the goal, he succeeded 1000 percent. Analyzing a steaming pile of dog shit for it contents would be far more entertaining than trying to make it through this whole book. Funny enough another book I read long ago that was absolutely terrible- but now seems like Shakespeare compared to this, was Johnathan Strange and Mr Norrell that was the first fiction book I read that had pages and pages of footnotes. This horrible book by Mr Penn also has a lot of footnotes which are more interesting than the book. Thank go the book was on sale for $2.00 but the reader should be paid $1000.00 for even opening this awful waste of paper.
Often when critics compare a novel to a “fever dream,” they mean it as a compliment, conveying that the book creates its own otherworldly universe and dream logic. When I say that Bob Honey is reminiscent of a fever dream, I mean that it’s nonsensical, unpleasant and left me sweaty with mingled horror and confusion. Prêmios
"From legendary actor and activist Sean Penn comes a scorching, darkly funny novella about Bob Honey--a modern American man, entrepreneur, and part-time assassin. He's just a guy trying to make it through each day while grappling with loneliness, alienation, violence--uncertain of his place in a culture that considers branding more important than being. Bob Honey has a hard time connecting with other people. He dreams he is sleeping with his ex-wife every night, and imagines waking up unhappy next to her every morning. Advertising, entertainment, and commerce rule his days; he's sick of being marketed to every moment, but is unable to pry himself away from the constant feed. A paragon of American entrepreneurialism, Bob sells septic tanks to Jehovah's Witnesses and arranges colorful pyrotechnic displays for foreign dictators. He's also a part-time assassin for an off-the-books program run by the CIA that targets the elderly, the infirm, and others who drain this consumption-driven society of its resources. When a nosy journalist starts asking questions, Bob can't decide if it's a chance to form some sort of new friendship or if it's the beginning of the end for him. With treason on everyone's lips, terrorism in everyone's sights, and American political life racing to ever-lower standards, Bob decides it's time to make a change. If he doesn't get killed by his mysterious controllers or exposed in the rapacious media first. Perfect for fans of books by Chuck Palahniuk and Hunter S. Thompson, Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff is a provocative, biting, timely novella that marks the publishing debut of one of America's most acclaimed artists"-- Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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