Book I Liked: Syrup by Max Barry

I finished an amazing book last week that I want to share with you.  The book is called Syrup.  It is the first novel by Max Barry, one of my favorite authors.  He wrote the more recent (and also awesome books) Jennifer Government and Company.

Syrup is a hilarious story about the adventures of Scat, a recent college graduate with a marketing degree and hopes of coming up with a million dollar idea.  We learn early on that most people come up with about three million dollar ideas every year, the key is following through on the idea.

I don’t want to give anything away, but the book involves company politics, backstabbing, to the wire business decisions, promotions, firing, and a hilarious tone that Max Barry manages to bring to two novels that make fun of everything I do in the corporate world. The other is Company (linked above).

I read through this book in about two weeks, which is fast for me.  I couldn’t put it down and needed to know what was going to happen to Scat.  For a book about a twenty something marketing graduate, I was impressed with the way I was pulled into the story.

If you decide to give it a read, please consider buying it through the links on this page.  You pay the same price, but I get a little bonus too.