“Friday Night Club” by Jacob Nelson Lurie
Reviewed by Poppy J.
The Friday Night Club has the potential to be a decent novel, but its’ distracting elements take away from the credibility of the writing.
Davis, the narrator of the story, is planning to get married. Like most men his age, he is afraid of commitment. His few friends, Jonesy and Peter Carter, only help him continue his partying ways while offering misguided advice on women. The author makes it a point to say that the story is a true one, and that everyone knows someone like the people depicted in the story. I beg to differ, since these “friends” are hedonistic and only interested in the next party or sexual encounter.
The author uses lewd phrases and words to relay the story. He drops f-bombs, s-words, and so on, and freely discusses oral sex and references having sex with underage girls. There are instances of domestic assault and violence towards women. Although I am sure that there is an audience for this type of writing, I do not see the value in it.
After a decade of working in several NYC law departments and teaching, Poppy decided she enjoyed writing full-time. She currently works as a freelance writing consultant, and lives with her husband and sons on the East Coast.
This book was provided free of any obligation by Jacob Nelson Lurie. No monetary or any other form of compensation was received.
Category: Comic, Literature & Fiction
absolute degradation of women and demeaning to men as well who are being painted with the same brush! i abhor this attitude and these actions perpetrated against our women. appalling when we know the consequences of these perpetrators actions. having a girlfriend who has initiated an organization to help free women from human traffiking, i cannot tolerate this in reality, never mind bragging of it in book form and being published! this should be exposed for the trash it is.
i’m sorry you had to be exposed to this smut, Poppy.
This does not sound like my kind or reading , I normally don’t censure what I’m reading, I’m pretty open to stong language or sexual situations when they are revelant for the story to move forward and to understand the characters better if that is their point of reference. However, it sounds as if this author and book is just using these phrases and descritions just for
not so much “shock value” but because they think it is interesting or that more people will pick
up the book if it is deemed “scandalous” just to see what exactly is inside, it does not sound like it would have to be included to help us understand the character or to move the story forward, I believe there could have been a better way in this case, therefore again this is not the book for me.
Wow I won’t be checking this book out! While I am not necessarily against cursing and sexual descriptions in books I don’t think it should be used as filler, laziness or to shock. Some wonderful books contain these elements but use them in a mature way as a learning model for the morals or storyline of the plot. This just sounds like smut.
Ugh … throwing up a little in my mouth. Thanks for the head’s up! Why do people really feel a need to write stuff like that? I s’pose there are those who read it … but, seriously? Good writers, really good writers, don’t need to stoop to such levels … ((Sorry, a pet peeve is writers who make up for laziness or lack of story or what-have-you by tossing in lots of sex stuff “filler”))