Syrup by Maxx Barry Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Syrup
Book Review: Can't give it away, but this idea would make a great soda
Summary: 4 Stars
Wow. This book made me laugh so hard my gut hurt. Maxx Barry definitely has a first hit. I saw this guy's writings on a writing workshop site and most people told him he stunk and was too weird of a style, but I knew he was good, and check it out, he's gotta book. A darn good book.Anyway, I highly recommend this book for anyone, especially if you have experience in advertising / marketing.
-- JJ Timmins
Book Review: ColaBook
Summary: 3 Stars
This work shows that the members of Visual Generation (X-ers, GeNexters) excel when the form and presentation are concerned, but fail, due to the boring safety of the modern way of life bringing nothing challenging and thus inspirational, from the point of view of content.So, the form of this novel is state of the art. Author himself studied manuals on self-promo and has double xx in his Max. As a graphic novel it definitely beats hell of the boring Heller for example, but as to the plot and the characters, it is silly and, how do you say that in US?, feeble-minded. Boy meets a girl, boy falls in love, girl is Lesbian...oh yeah, and it all takes place in the Coke HQ.
Maxx gives plenty of marketing advice but most of that is already in the funny e-mails the marketing experts exchange between themselves to amuse and impress each other...
Now, the book has great layout, cool cover and "Maxx Barry" indeed sounds perfect, but as the art of artist is low-end who will fight to read his sequel, prequel or any other flashy thing, when in the middle it is empty and plastic.
There is a quote of E.M. Foster in the work of Charles Handy "Understanding Organizations" that reads as follows: "The test of the round character is whether it is capable of surprising in a convincing way. If it never surprises, it is flat. If it does not convince it is a flat pretending to be round."
One more thing - this novel contains major marketing idea of the first feature sci-fi cinematographic work of advertisement for soft-drink company, i.e. the true piece of art in the service of marketing. Forget about direct placements into movies, movies may be about the product entirely in future!
This novel is, BTW, a first feature literary work where the cola people are on stage, together with their cola and their ideas how to sell it to us. Nothing else. Syrup? Plastic!
Book Review: Concur
Summary: 5 Stars
Gripping. Hip. Addictive - read it straight through in six hours last nite. Good thing I can catch a few winks here at work...Book Review: DIFFERENT AND FUNNY
Summary: 5 Stars
SYRUP by Maxx (Max) Barry is a different sort of read. I will say here I will try another one of his little books, but is far from great literature. It is interesting, different, and as a 'bathroom' read/book it is a five star. It is written in small section, easy to put down and pick up later. This book left me wanting more, come on, people named, Scat, 6, and Sneaky Pete, come on they deserve more print. Funny and life like in places and way too far out in others. Inconsistent.Book Review: Deeply unfunny
Summary: 1 Stars
Really awful book. Maybe I'm not as easily amused as I thought I was.
At least I learned a lesson about blindly trusting Amazon reviews. They have served me well in the past, but not this time!