This Book Will Destroy You
And It’s Perfect For Our Book Club
This book will destroy you. It will devastate you. It will open old psychological wounds and rub salt in them. And it’s perfect for our book club.
The story is a gut punch. It’s also a face punch. A side-of-the-head punch, and a kidney punch. This book is going to hit you with a vinyl-padded steel chair and throw you straight through a folding table. When you finish this book, you’ll be left bloodied and bashed and crying for your mamma. But your mamma isn’t a part of our book club. It’s just the small group of men who saw a flier above a urinal promising to make them feel alive again.
The dialogue is heavy. You’re going to throw your back out on this dialogue. You’ll herniate your disc. Your nerves are going to be pinched. Your thigh and buttocks will tingle. When you go to the doctor, the doctor will say, “Yeah, we see this type of injury all the time. It’s common both with people who have physically demanding jobs, and people who read this book.” He’ll ask if you’re a part of a book club, but you won’t tell him. You know doctors are just trying to keep you alive, but what you want is to live. Doctors just want you to feel comfortable, but what you want is to feel every feeling this life has to offer. For the first time in years, in the brotherhood of the book club, over finger sandwiches…
