Burnt Popcorn and Cheap Perfume
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dark but humorous
While I was reading this book it reminded me of "Catcher In The Rye". The narrator is aliented in his job and outside of it, but is not without strong attachaments to a few. The scenes he describes can be described as dark but at the same time funny. The book held my interest.
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A visceral, take-no-prisoners tale of a man in crisis
Sometimes you want a smoky, flavorful glass of fine Cabernet, and sometimes you want a bracing shot of 80-proof liquid fire that burns its way into your gut and slaps you awake from your day-to-day routine. "Burnt Popcorn and Cheap Perfume" is the literary equivalent of the latter. Laced with profanity, out-of-control sex, visceral unhappiness, and cutting hostility, you should definitely look elsewhere if you simply must have that fine Cabernet.But if this memorable novel is the kind of burning liquor consumed via quickly-downed shots when you're out with your buddies, it nevertheless comes from a bottle stored on the upper shelf. Yeah, it burns, but it's a fine burn, a good burn. Protagonist Michael O'Donnell's profanity-laced anger and hostility at the world around him is part of a larger, richer characterization and history that, as the story progresses, elegantly reveal why Michael acts the way he does, and why he has some very specific demons following on his...
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Phenominal!
I loved it! Modern day Philadelphia is the setting, and "Burnt Popcorn, Cheap Perfume" gives a whole new meaning to the slogan, `City of Brotherly Love.'Thomas C. Archer takes you for a ride on an emotional roller coaster like no other, and I walked away wanting more.His main character is Michael O'Donnell. Mike, as his friends call him, is young, handsome... and extremely unhappy. He's stuck in a dead end job, surrounded by people he cannot stand, and he's desperate for someone to love. But he's also haunted. Haunted every second, of every minute, of every hour, of every day, by a gnawing desire to see punished, the father who deserted him so long ago.While going through the repetitive motions of every day life, Mike goes on a search for personal fulfillment, and, as a result, discovers nothing but the art of self destruction.I laughed with Mike. I cried with Mike. And more times than not, I even got angry, right along with Mike. His pain became my pain as...
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Product Description
Sandwiched between obnoxious coworkers who reek of burnt popcorn and cheap perfume, Michael O Donnell is a short step away from a total meltdown. Recently promoted in a career that is destroying him, Michael escapes the stress of his nightmarish world by embarking on a self-destructive journey through Philadelphia s sexual underground. Darkly comic, extremely raw, and unexpectedly poignant, Burnt Popcorn and Cheap Perfume chronicles one man s quest to escape a career that is driving him insane along with a growing addiction and a thirst for vengeance against the father who brutally betrayed him. Top to learn more
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