If You Read Only One Novel This Year, Better Make It 'Timothy's Take-Out'
Lets face it, nobody wants to waste what little leisure time they have on a novel that isnt 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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