If You Read Only One Novel This Year, Better Make It 'Timothy's Take-Out'
Let’s face it, nobody wants to waste what little leisure time they have on a novel that isn’t enjoyable. Author Paul J. Barker, whether by accident or design, has created a novel that is nothing but enjoyable – from start to finish.
(PRWEB) August 23, 2005 -- “Timothy's Take-Out” is the perfect time waster,
for any number of reasons. To list but a few: it's short but not too short, it
flows like the Mississippi, and the prose style is drop-dead gorgeous. It's a
novel one could realistically devour in a weekend, then re-devour with as much
enthusiasm a month or two later.
It's always fun to read about losers
(morally reprehensible as this may be), and there is perhaps no greater loser in
all humanity than the chief protagonist of “Timothy's Take-Out”, Carl Fellows.
The penniless college dropout thinks his luck is changing when he lands a summer
job in a beautiful resort town, and in a sense he's right – it's taking a turn
for the worse.
Young Carl, so shy and introspective, couldn't be less
suited to his job as restaurant “personnel manager.” His heartless boss works
him like a horse; his abusive customers and staff are downright intimidating. He
falls hard for a pretty coworker, whose fat friend falls hard for him. His
hatred of his job casts a pall on even his days off – he spends most of his free
time searching desperately for some way to bust out of Timothy's for
good.
Misfortune follows this fellow around like some super resistant
strain of virus. He is constantly struggling to make ends meet, his one “friend”
is a vulgar sociopath who idolizes Hitler, and he incurs the wrath of what may
be the most bizarre street gang in recorded history.
The only thing in
Carl Fellows' corner is the mental toughness he doesn't know he has.
Will
Carl rise above his pathetic station in life, or succumb to the insanity that
appears to have him boxed in? Paul J. Barker's delightful “Timothy's Take-Out”
(ISBN # 1-4137-3164-3) holds all the answers, and is available, appropriately
enough, at http://www.dontlikemyjob.com or most any online
bookstore.
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