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Servo by David Goodwin

sephypear's review

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challenging dark emotional funny hopeful medium-paced

4.0

As someone who was worked nights, and also been the creepy, creature of darkness that haunts nightshift workers, this book is 100% on point and I believe every single word.
I genuinely laughed out loud reading this book and I've recommended it to many people, including the night shift workers at the restaurant I kill time at on a Friday night during between running the kiddos around.
God speed, lizard queens.

olijordan's review

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I was genuinely enjoying the book. I just had to return it. Maybe will pick it up again soon 

arrykin's review against another edition

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dark funny reflective slow-paced

2.5

sheadawson's review

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emotional funny reflective slow-paced

4.0

thlee21's review

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funny informative lighthearted slow-paced

3.5

knitreadkate's review

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Return library loan. 

bookstorian's review against another edition

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2.5

I picked up and put this read down a few times. I was equal parts interested in the subject matter, tripping on the elaborate use of language and exhausted by the lack of humanity at times from the author.

This book certainly made me think about the transient nature of a servo, the inner battles people face and how Australians culturally treat others in retail. In addition, I pondered if I am the ideal servo customer.

I think as a whole this read wasn't for me, while I appreciate the sentiment behind the creation of the memoir I did skip chunks of it to get to the end. I've heard it said before that people's dreams and drug stories are really only fascinating to them and so many parts of the book reflect this.

Thank you to Hachette Australia for the gifted copy. 

"I've discovered you can tell a lot about a person by the way they treat a retail worker. I've found that, generally, if they bother to offer a greeting and actually engage their facial muscles in some fashion, then they're probably an okay person." pg281. 

rollforlibrarian's review

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dark funny reflective medium-paced

3.0

bookb1itch's review

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I love the concept of this book and found Goodwin's writing amusing.  However, at times it was VERY over-written and also, many of the stories made goody-goody me very uncomfortable, almost scared.  There are too many books on my TBR pile that I am keen for at the moment.

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bitesizebooks's review against another edition

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adventurous slow-paced

1.0