Jocko is most well known as being a former Navy Seal and writing books on leadership. I'm not really interested in learning about leadership, so I decided to pick up his sole fiction title.
Johnny is working at a dead-end job. He loves his brother, Arty. Arty's entire world revolves around laundry. He's happy as long as he can do laundry. When Johnny finds out the owner of the laundromat is moving to Holland, he comes up with a plan to take care of his brother and get himself out of town.
The book is different. The formatting is unusual, and the choppy sentences didn't really enhance the flow of the story for me. When it was normal format/writing, I found it easier to read.
The story itself was okay. It was the story of a man who wants to make a quick buck and makes some bad decisions to do it. The consequences of those actions are not shocking, and I'm not sure rooting for Johnny is something I was doing as the story went on. The only real character I liked was Arty. He was wholesome and honest. I'm sure there was another way to keep him doing his laundry. I don't think Arty would've approved of Johnny's method to save his laundry. Honestly, neither did I...
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