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Supermarketis the tale of a depressed grocery store employee in the suburbs whose ordinary life is disrupted when he stumbles upon a crime scene. But you wouldn’t exactly know that — or really much else about the plot, style, characters or writing — from the reviews from its fans.
Logic, a.k.a. Bobby Hall, releasedSupermarket on Tuesday, paired with a 13-song soundtrack, and the rapper’s debut novel has already shot up to the Number One spot on Amazon’s best-selling books list, which ranks titles by their rate of sales movement. Simon and Schuster, the novel’s publisher, described the book in press materials as “a gripping exploration into madness and creativity” and dubbed Logic one of the most creative artists of the generation. “Bobby Hall has crafted a mind-bending first novel, with prose that is just as fierce and moving as his lyrics,” Ready Player One author Ernest Cline said in a blurb for the novel, adding that the book is “like Naked Lunch meets One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest — if they met at Fight Club.”But it isSupermarket‘s reviewers on Amazon, of which there are, at press time, 28, who are showering it with the most passionate, if vague, love.
In an interview with Trevor Noah, Logic said the book was initially prompted by a comment from his manager: “Yeah, dude, you can’t write a book.” So, Logic said, he “just read a bunch of books” and wrote a book. From a commercial standpoint, his confidence is paying off.
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