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thebacklistborrower's Reviews (570)
A great vacation read. The book is interesting but doesn't take too much brain power.
A really interesting book that is dark and nuanced and complicated and hopeful - buy that is life and I'm sure the author's point. Life on Mars is full of stories about escaping from something and into something else. Sometimes people are escaping broken homes by pursuing estranged family, or broken relationships by chasing new ones, or escaping the anxiety of a doomed planet by saving one intelligent squid. The book will have a story for everybody. They may not be easy to read but they are well worth it.
I wasn't sure what I would think of this book when I started it. The violent, vulgar train-of-thought is tough to get into, but once the book picks up momentum it is hard to put down. You really see Johnny through his faults, and just hope so hard that this one time life doesn't kick him in the ass. You turn each page hoping for him to turn his life around, to get a good break, to make peace with the world or himself, and seeing Johnny fight his way across the country resulted in a story I won't shortly forget.
