Dark, dirty, bitter and funny. A man struggling with morality and losing his mind in the process. Beautiful filth. I need to have a bath now.
Also some of the sentences were so compelling that i had to reread them a bunch of times and savour their delicate composition.

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This short novel was much better than I expected to be. It deals with the heavy, existential topic - the point(pointlessness) of living - deftly and, as other reviewers have touched on, is timeless in its style and message. It was nice to wallow in the pointlessness, the ridiculousness and the ineptness of both being and human beings. It was nice to watch someone else dealing with it and to entertain the manner in which he did so. It reminded me of one of my favourite books, 'The Blood of the Lamb' by Peter de Vries, but also, 'Catcher in the Rye', 'Nausea', 'Death of a Salesman', 'Post Office' and 'The Sweet Smell of Psychosis' came to mind as I read it. It's worth a read, if you don't mind musings on the meaninglessness of it all!
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I am not at all sure as to what the point of this book is to be. Every once in a while, I grabbed a thread but then it disappeared. There may be some nice writing contained within this book but the plot, or lack thereof, overshadowed it. ( )

Many reviewers seem to extract a lot from this short novella, but the main takeaway for me is that you wouldn't want to be a woman in 1930s New York City. ( )

An impressively black-hearted comedy. Like Scoop meets Catch-22, but at just 100 pages it feels rather flimsy by my usual standards. ( )