Frowns Need Friends Too [Paperback]

Sam Pink (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 24, 2010

A unique perspective on urban life, presented as short snapshots of prose, this book by outsider author Sam Pink defies traditional categories or conventions. Including such subjects as "I Heart Unending Paranoia," "Because You Know You're Avoiding Going Somewhere But Don't Even Know Where Yet," and "I'm Not Going To Change My Clothes Today," Pink's collection is bizarre, funny, and original.

Product Details

• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Afterbirth Books (March 24, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1933929219
• ISBN-13: 978-1933929217
• Product Dimensions: 0.4 x 8.4 x 5.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,159,103 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Sam Pink is the author of The No Hellos Diet, Hurt Others, I Am Going to Clone Myself Then Kill the Clone and Eat It, Frowns Need Friends Too, and the cult hit Person. His writing has been published widely in print and on the internet, and also in other languages. He lives in Chicago, where he plays in the band Depressed Woman.

Be his friend at www.impersonalelectroniccommunication.com.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Stellar poetry July 28, 2011

By Joseph Bouthiette, Jr.

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This book of short pieces was my second book of Sam Pink's I've read. And I was not disapponted.

Contained in these pages are poems. They read like stories. And they are not happy stories.

Reading this all in one sitting, this book reads like the subconcious ramblings of someone suffering from 65% depression and 35% egomania. The poems flow together, even sometimes using the same lines in multiple pieces, and your mood plummets gradually as you go along. Maybe I should've slowed down a bit. But I didn't. And I am suffering the awesome/sorrow-filled wrath of Sam Pink because of it. I don't know if I'm cool with this or not. But I am definitely cool with this book.

Fans of surreal literature and other Sam Pink work, rejoice. Buy this book.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars What is Sam Pink? August 13, 2011

By Joshua M. Myers

Format:Paperback

Sam Pink is humanity at its best.

Sam Pink is me at my worst.

This is a collection that cannot be passed up. Reading Sam Pink changes the way you see the world and see yourself. Read one poem, and there's no going back. Sam Pink is in your head. And he's doing funny things in there. You can't stop him. But you can thank him.

5.0 out of 5 stars the quick version of how to be successful December 20, 2012

By codexstatic

Format:Paperback

There is something about Sam Pink's work that punches me in the chest. It's not quite poetry, not quite just strings of random sentences. It gives me that same bone and muscle rending feeling I get from reading the best parts of William Faulkner, David Wallace. Pure emotion and consciousness. I WASTE TIME BY THINKING ABOUT THE FUTURE IN DETAIL is one of the absolute best poems I've ever read. It's creativity and sex and death. Sam Pink's poetry feels intentional yet chaotic. Fans of Bright Eyes will like this. Fans of Roberto Bolaño's Antwerp may like this. People with blood still flowing should like this. Girls like Sam Pink. (Fact.) This book may get you laid. There is no fluff here.