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It Feels So Good When I Stop (2009)

by Joe Pernice(Favorite Author)

3.22 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1594488746 (ISBN13: 9781594488740)

languge

English

genre

Humor

publisher

Riverhead Hardcover

review 1: Maybe I'm missing something, but I got almost nothing out of this book. It felt ostentatiously gritty for no particular reason, and I fail to see what message it was trying to convey, since the plot line certainly didn't do the book any favours. I did find Marie a little intriguing; she was the only sympathetic character in the entire thing, except perhaps Pamela. In general, though, it was a senseless, desultory group of loosely connected plot points, with an abrupt and (for me) unsatisfactory ending. Solid writing is the only thing that kept me from giving this book a single star. But again...maybe I'm missing something.
review 2: Never was a big fan of plot anyhow, and I have a soft spot for indie rock slacker stories. The jumping around in time was fine - e... moreach schism triggered by either a word or idea that linked the parts together. There were some real laughs in this book, and some pretty heartbreaking moments too. Lots of drinking and fucking and cussing. Some parts were so crude that Bulkowski himself was evoked, like it said in a blurb, but this was truly surprising for me, since Pernice's lovely pop and earlier country music have been soothing me and many others for twenty years or so... Plus, the man gets points in my system for writing a novella about a Smith's album (which I haven't read yet). Then he moves down the street with his family, hanging out in the coffee shop on the corner and being generally pleasant and neighborly. less

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