Richard Perez - The Losers' Club

Pros: This is a pretty good book.
Cons: It’s published by Ludlow Press.

Salt Lake City is worlds away from New York City. Right? You wouldn’t expect someone from Springvi ...

Pros: Main character could have been interesting
Cons: Pretentious, excessive nostalgia, far too many italics

So much fiction, be it written or filmed, has loneliness as a centerpiece. Whether because the emot ...

Pros: Comes with a free ego boost...
Cons: ...but then you actually have to read and review it.

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Pros: can't think of any
Cons: melodramatic, horrid poetry, random italics and strange punctuation, feels extremely amateurish

It's never a good sign when a book begins with page after page of enthusiastic endorsements. It's indicative of insecurity, a dead giveaway that someone thinks you'll need a lot of convincing before you'll be willing to actually read the blasted thing. ...

Pros: Good book
Cons: The author is an idiot

I was prepared to sneer at this book and laugh at the bad writing and lack of plot. That didn't happ ...

Pros: Gritty; interesting descriptions of Village nightlife
Cons: Undeveloped characters; annoying dialogue

I am of two minds about Richard Perez’s The Loser’s Club, recently published by the small but spunky Ludlow Press. Part of me wonders if this novel is just thinly veiled dreck, while the other part of me thinks I’ve been reading...

Pros: Fast-paced dialogue. Good descriptions of the Village club scene
Cons: Disconcerting type faces. I'm totally out of date on this one

Earlier this spring I got an alert on a new novel that needed reviewing. I see that a few other Epin ...

Pros: Fast paced. Haunting at times.
Cons: Gappy in a few spots.

What would life be like if you were a child of the 90s? It was a period of time when young people ha ...

Pros: proof, as if any were necessary, that there are some kooks in New York
Cons: hell of a painful way to learn something everyone already knows

Losers' Club is a trade paperback fiction novel about a young Hispanic guy who is trying to b ...

Pros: sketch of nocturnal East Greenwich Village milieu(x) and dating difficulties
Cons: does not flow smoothly

Losers' Club Richard Perez's first novel -- prefaced by an array of blurbs (including those by two Pulitzer Prize-winners and two other writers whom I admire) and a map of east Greenwich Village -- is set at an unspecified time during the 1990s. ...

Pros: Real. Author has skill in giving us his emotional intelligence
Cons: Short. I would have enjoyed more about most of the characters!

"Fiction / relationships: doomed or nonexistent" So reads the back cover of "The Losers Club", and s ...

Pros: Very good description of NYC dating scene.
Cons: Depressing as all hell.

I am a movie reviewer by trade, to the extent that I am anything much of all by trade, and consequen ...

Pros: A few moments of genuine emotion amidst the cliches.
Cons: The aforementioned cliches, weak writing style.

When I finally got around to seeing the much heralded big screen version of Wonder Boys earlier this year (about a year after reading Michael Chabon's novel) I remember observing that it was good, yet it didn't quite live up to the book. The book I felt w ...