Shopgirl - a novella

Title: Shopgirl - a novella
Author: Steve Martin
Recommended by: Myself

And by recommended by myself, I mean that I was at the library trying to find CD's of Steve Martin's stand up, and found books he wrote instead. I read 'The Pleasure of my Company', and really liked it, so I thought I'd give his first (short) book a try.

I didn't think too much of this book, it was pretty average, although Steve Martin does an excellent job at single characters, and their mindset. That skill is what makes 'The Pleasure of my Company' such a good book, since it is about a obsessive compulsive half crazy main character. But in this book on relationships between basically 3 characters, it didn't seem very useful. My problem is more to do with this book's subject than the way it's written. This book is about a 28 year old woman, and her relationship with a 50-something year old man, and how they grow and what they learn through each other. It just didn't seem very fun to read, or challenging to think about.

Recommendation: 5/10, a quick read, not too noteworthy, but an interesting style of writing. But listen, if you're going on my recommendation, then just go read 'The Pleasure of my Company'.