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Rontel (2013)

by Sam Pink(Favorite Author)

4.03 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1621050793 (ISBN13: 9781621050797)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Lazy Fascist Press

review 1: Loved this. It was like cliff notes to a bag of mushrooms. Hilarious book. Clear, percise writing. But also a book that doesn't skirt away from the big ol' feeling of "ahhh man, I hate the muf'fuckin erfff". I think in lesser hands, Rontel would have become a cartoon. Instead, the book turned into this voyage through the regular streets of Chicago, but told through the eyes of somebody who might as well be doing jumping jacks on the moon. Added this to my pile of books to read once a year. Hope I live for 60 more years so I can read this 60 muf'fuckin times.
review 2: the narrator of rontel moves through the streets of chicago, sort of aimlessly, isolated from other people by the stream of, lets not call them surreal, but eccentric thoughts the blast through hi... mores head and onto the page. i can feel sam pink's genesis through tao lin, but pink is funnier, and rontel is not as sad as lin's books, though the characters of each share a propensity for being incapable of suppressing the id of their thought process, which singles them out among their population. pink is at his best when he's forcing other characters to interact with the airing of these private thoughts and at his worst when issuing dialectal interpretations of chicagoans. there's value to this book as a character snapshot, and its freeform style is intriguing, but its light on plot and there is no growth and are no choices to be made, but maybe that's life. less

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