Helpful Score: 5
This book was on my wishlist for a long time. I was glad to finally have it in my page turning hands. I'm not sure now, if I really enjoyed the book all that much. Some nights I was held captive by the gritty, true life memoir of Nick Flynn and his homeless/alcoholic dad. Other nights I was glad I was sleepy, giving me an excuse to put the book down. A mixed bag. I am left with so many questions, it is like I walked into a movie a half hour late, or left before the ending, or both. I thought this book would be as good or better than "The Glass Castle" but sadly, it was not. BUT... worth the read anyway. It is unique.
Rachel (bigrachwoowoo) reviewed Another Bullshit Night in Suck City: A Memoir on + 23 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 3
An interesting read about a young man working in a homeless shelter and dealing with his father's homelessness. Tells the story of his growing up in Boston.
Helpful Score: 2
Memoir of a young man working as a caseworker in a homeless shelter when he met his father who was a client in the shelter. Well written. Named one of the New York Public Library's Top 25 Books in 2004. Winner of the Pen/Martha Albrand Award for Memoirs.
Helpful Score: 1
I found this book rather lacking in insight. It's an interesting story, of course - what do you do when your own father shows up at the homeless shelter that you work at? But the author reacts like a teenager, so caught up in his own embarassment and anger at his father for putting him in this situation that he can't spare a second's empathy for the guy. He's too immature to either help the situation and or to stand back and ask someone with a healthier attitude to step in, so he just goes on self-destructive drinking binges. I know we all act irrationally around family, but this guy just seems to be wallowing in spiteful anger and blaming his own self-absorbtion on his absentee dad.
rather confessional but good style
Bonnie S. (Bonnie) -
Well, I had a dang hard time getting into reading this book. Yet another where the author thinks that writing in a weird tense makes it more dramatic. I found the style and voice so annoying that I wouldn't waste my time going much beyond page 20.
Jill K. (jillybean14red) reviewed Another Bullshit Night in Suck City: A Memoir on + 30 more book reviews
Don't let the title sway you- this is a touching book about a guy and his homeless father.
A sad but touching memoir. An alcoholic father and the son who seems to be making the same mistakes, yet can't quite forgive his father. There is more to it, but I don't want to give it away.
While not a fun or easy read, I enjoyed it just the same. That says something as I hardly ever read non-fiction.
I am going to pass this along to my mother and sister, and then decide if it is a keeper for me.
While not a fun or easy read, I enjoyed it just the same. That says something as I hardly ever read non-fiction.
I am going to pass this along to my mother and sister, and then decide if it is a keeper for me.
Karen K. (keefaschick) reviewed Another Bullshit Night in Suck City: A Memoir on + 10 more book reviews
This book was a fst read.. A I cnat put this book down read.. It's a story of a man who had a great family and home and lost it all to alcohol..... Its the story of a man who works at the pine street in in Boston and one day has to deal with the heart ache of his father be homeless.....
An amazing memoir. Sad, funny at times, very poignant. Nick Flynn writes beautifully about a harrowing subject, and never feels sorry for himself in spite of his heartaches.
While difficult to get into, this book was a really interesting look into the life of Nick Flynn. It talked less about the shelter than I expected and more about his life events. The writing is a bit scattered and difficult to follow but once you get started it becomes charming and unique.
