I know what this must look like...A book about putting your life back in order, starting a new career, finding your inner self confidence...Thankfully no. It's fiction.
In a way though, i do think it's a very appropriate title. The book is about a man named Richard Novak who is a very wealthy man living in LA overcome by the modern life style of training for hours a day, eating no carbs and being constantly obsessed with himself and his unbreakable routine. It then progresses into his rather rapid realisation and therefore break down that his life means nothing, he has no real friends and he can't go on the way he is.
We then see Richard Novak trying through his physical and mental break down to meet people, to walk around and explore things, to break his routine. He becomes friends with a doughnut shop owner and starts to gorge on them whilst slowly building his lift back up with a more realistic and sensible view. Therefore, i approve of the title, because i think this new 'LA craze' needs to be look on as if it is fairly ridiculous, and actually can effect people much more than just on the surface.
This book is an eye opener, whilst being gentle and reasonably easy to read i think it portrays well how human kind can be so easily effected and sucked in by stereotypes, crazes and have such a need to fit in with everyone else. Stephen King has written a review of the book on the back which says 'I think this brave story of a lost man's reconnection with the world could become a generational touchstone, like catch-22 or The Catcher in the Rye...And hey, maybe it will save somebody's life.' And i agree.
Plus, i know they say never judge a book by it's cover, but this one definitely caught my eye whilst wandering through WaterStones...
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