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title: "The Sellout MP3 CD – MP3 Audio, May 24, 2016"
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# The Sellout MP3 CD – MP3 Audio, May 24, 2016

**Brand:** paul beatty
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- **What is this?** The Sellout MP3 CD – MP3 Audio, May 24, 2016 by paul beatty
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Here's how you should read this book
  

*by S***B on Reviewed in the United States on March 14, 2016*

Rather than copy the other very astute reviews, let me just tell you how to read this book. It's challenging, and it doesn't always follow the standard dictates of plot, but you may enjoy it more if you know what to expect.1) It's not a page-turning, finish-in-one-night kind of book. If you try, you'll miss out. I had to read it over several days, each session giving me a hundred things to think about.2) When you get anxious for the plot to pick up, think of it as satirical standup, and read it like you'd listen to the comics to which Beatty's compared, namely Dave Chapelle. (If you're thinking of it as a novel instead of as satire, you can lose the thread of hilarity) When you're overwhelmed by the satire, think of it as a novel and try to piece together the experiences that make up Bonbon's character. It's hard to get hold of his character at times, and trying to summarize Bonbon Me's character is a (rewarding) reading experience in and of itself.3) You may want to have google at hand so you don't miss out on the plethora (this word is on my mind after one particularly funny bit near the end), of cultural and historical references. You might know Plessy v. Ferguson and the scopes trial, but it would be hard, I think, to catch every reference, and the satire depends on them.4) Yes, it's funny, but not in the LOL way as often as 'that so true it's painful' way. Reading the reviews, I expected to be chuckling every few pages. Instead I had a wry grin every few sentences. Don't let this deter you. The verbs come at the end of sentences so often that you really have to read it at a run if you don't want to lose the thread of what's going on, but I can guarantee the thread is worth catching. In the last few pages of the book, Beatty comes as close to speaking to you plainly as the author as he does in the entire novel, and what he had to say tied the its many disparate observations together perfectly.

### ⭐ 







  
  
    Not worth the effort
  

*by T***2 on Reviewed in the United States on January 28, 2020*

Stuff that was supposed to be funny was just absurd. Stream-of-consciousness, run-on sentences made it hard to find the point. Off-puttingly vulgar. Were the f-word and n-word used so much to desensitize us? In place of emotional engagement and fully-formed characters? I considered stopping after the first act, but plodded through to the end, hoping for a payoff that never came.  Some thought-provoking ideas, but delivered with a sledge hammer rather than wit and insight. I guess it's a critic's book. I picked it because I saw it on 2 "best of the decade" lists and someone called it the next Great American Novel. So I guess I am supposed to like it, and tried to like it, but ultimately saw that the emperor had no clothes.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    This book has never been more relevant
  

*by E***O on Reviewed in the United States on June 10, 2020*

With phrases such as "When I was young I had a reputation for being extremely lucky... The cops somehow never got around to putting my name on a scare card or my neck in a choke hold", this book has never been so relevant nor so powerful. It is the story of a black man whose father is killed by the police. And somehow Paul Beatty makes everything seem funny. The protagonist's father is the funniest with the way he tried to teach the protagonist.I've read a lot of reviews saying this book is hard to read. It is not. The prologue is a stream of consciousness passage, and may be hard to read, but once you are through it, every chapter is straight first-person narrative with a couple of flashbacks.This book deserves all the credit it's been given.

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