Unusual Concentrations, by Simon Spurrier
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[Shortlisted for the Shirley Jackson Novella Award 2015] CRIME, COFFEE AND CARELESS TALK. A novella by award-winning novelist and graphic-novelist Simon Spurrier. Jay Berry is a pathetic man. He spends his days in the anodyne cafeterias of London, living vicariously through those around him, letting his pitiful attention skip like a pebble on a pond. But an overheard conversation and a grisly event - death-by-latte - embroil him in a caffeinated conspiracy his dismal imagination can barely comprehend. Unusual Concentrations is a bleakly funny novella about loneliness, imagination and the curious horrors of coffee shop culture. Following the success of his novels "Contract" and "A Serpent Uncoiled", this 40,000-word blast of abusrdist realism marks Spurrier's first foray into digital publishing.
Unusual Concentrations, by Simon Spurrier- Amazon Sales Rank: #569392 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-07-19
- Released on: 2015-07-19
- Format: Kindle eBook
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Strong, Dark, Funny and Humane By Alasdair Stuart Jay Berry is faking it. He sits in a coffee shop, at the exact table the least attention is paid to and pretends to write. What he’s doing, in reality, is living vicariously through other people. Sometimes he writes down what they’re saying so he looks busy, sometimes he writes down words he likes and most of the time he just waits for it to be the end of the day. Nothing happens in Jay’s life. Nothing changes.Until the nice lady on the next table dies. And Jay finds himself in a very unusual, and extremely dangerous, spotlight.Si does three really clever things with this, his first foray into digital publishing. The first is taking that step into digital, because a story like this is both perfectly suited to and grounded in the caffeinated associative tribe culture that digital publishing has been for some time now. This is a story about those people who sit in coffee shops and write, which, odds are, is going to be read by a good chunk of people sitting in coffee shops taking a break from their writing. What’s really smart is how unflinching but, at the same time, understanding Si is about this culture. It would be very easy to base a book in this world and point and laugh at it. It would be even easier to do that to an extent that begins to alienate the audience, something I know a couple of the Charles Stross Laundry series have done. It’s a difficult line to walk; go too far in one direction and you’re pandering. Go too far in the other and you’re insulting the audience you’re relying on. Si walks that line with consummate, brutally honest ease.That leads to the second really clever thing about the book; how it plays with the attention deficit that’s endemic in digital culture. Jay’s inability to focus is both a tremendous weakness and pretty much the only thing he has going for him. The cultural invisibility that comes with it protects him and, for a while, looks a little like the one thing he has going for him. But the power that his absence gives him comes with a hefty price and that lack of attention cuts both ways. The way Si explores Jay’s gradual trajectory from invisible to aware to sort of happy to realizing just what’s going on is hugely compelling and deeply unsettling. We’ve all been Jay at times. We all will be again. Hopefully none of us will be Jay on some of the days he has here.That leads into the third really clever thing; just how sinister the book is. Si maps Jay’s stumbling acceptance of his new world onto the idea of a man slowly waking up to the size of the city he lives in and the life he could have. It’s aspirational and gentle stuff, Si exploring the reactions of a man who’s used to not having anything suddenly realizing just what he has. The book is rarely sweeter than when it’s exploring Jay slowly starting to enjoy his new life. It’s darkest when we, and he, understand the context of that life, the damage caused and the price that has to be paid. Even then, Si balances horror with absurdity and a surprising amount of moral ambiguity. People do horrible, awful things in this book but you’ll understand why they do them and, in some cases, sympathise. Chances are you won’t drink quite as much coffee as Jay does though.Unusual Concentrations is another entry in the increasingly massive run of stories showing that the novella is one of the most interesting and vibrant story formats we have. Endlessly funny, deeply bleak and relentlessly clever it’s an espresso shot of horror, crime, thriller and comedy. Drink it all down.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. A story that captures a rather antisocial flavor of what a writer is. By Jacob There are some books you just need. Sometimes you don't know why, you can't place the piece of you they brush up against, but cling to them.Don't get me wrong, I know why I like this book; it's about a writer, or perhaps more aptly a writer who doesn't write. Instead he spends his day hacking up linguistic fragments until his life is thrown into obligatory chaos and the neurotic tendency of the writer gurgles, distracts, and only occasionally annoys.This is a book where I found myself laughing too hard, smiling obscenely on public spaces, and enjoying myself despite the imperfections and grating narrative ticks the sprinkle the story.As a writer who does not write (at least enough, in his own judgment) it struck a chord, a sort of oscillating madness that spoke to own doubt, my own hysteria, and then bled it out to something so absurd it has no choice but to be beautiful.Spurrier plays well in metafiction, in repetition, in half finished clauses. These are things that work for me. We're I a better writer --were I a writer less like our sad, miserable protagonistic lout, Jay Berry-- I'd be capable of myself.Unusual Concentrations is worth reading, filled with the trademarks of a less-than-they-deserve-to-be-known writer that I have followed fit years. It is simply a shame it only exists electronically and I can't force copies onto friends and loved ones in order to give them a taste of what Spurrier has to offer.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Thanks a Latte for the great read, Simon! (oh god, I'm sorry) By Shane I'm not going to write a summary or anything like that because, hell, the book is pretty short, theres a description up ^there^ somewhere, and the other review here already did it.I first discovered Si Spurrier through his incredible work on the comic Six-Gun Gorilla. Where that story was a unique take on stories themselves, Unusual Concentrations is a unique take on the storyteller and the process that goes into writing.Spurriers tone and near-whimsical shifts in time and perspective are done with finesse and work well to keep the reader turning the pages, or swiping them I guess as this is a digital book. The story is engaging and keeps you wondering what is going on throughout without ever being completely alienating. Jay Berry serves as the readers metaphorical pace car, as long as you can at least keep up with Jay, who never seems to really grasp whats going on until the last moment, then you can feel superior to someone in your possibly mediocre detective work.At what Goodreads told me is the equivalent to about 104 pages of content, Unusual Concentrations feels much more substantial than other Kindle Singles (is that was this is? not really even sure what any of these designations mean to be honest) and is worth more than the couple bucks you serve up to download it.Si's foray into prose is great, and I look forward to reading whatever else he puts out.
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