Reviews
"No matter what he's writing, Pink's eye for describing the bizarre daily parade of being a person surrounded by other people and with a brain that won't turn off is by turns hilarious, self-destructive, surreal, precise, and moving without trying to be moving." - Vice , on the English-language edition, "No matter what he's writing, Pink's eye for describing the bizarre daily parade of being a person surrounded by other people and with a brain that won't turn off is by turns hilarious, self-destructive, surreal, precise, and moving without trying to be moving." -- Vice , on the English-language edition, "Backs into weirdness in much the same way as the early novels of Chuck Palahniuk. Life lived on the sketchy edges of society has an innate weirdness brought on by poverty, social exclusion, and mental illness. Pink is a keen observer of the culture of minimum-wage jobs and low-rent studio apartments that is the reality of life for all those who don't find a cog space in today's hyper-capitalist economy. The No Hellos Diet is the story of a shop clerk with no dreams or aspirations, told in the second person because, frankly, this is your life we're talking about here." -- Guardian , on the English-language edition, "Backs into weirdness in much the same way as the early novels of Chuck Palahniuk. Life lived on the sketchy edges of society has an innate weirdness brought on by poverty, social exclusion, and mental illness. Pink is a keen observer of the culture of minimum-wage jobs and low-rent studio apartments that is the reality of life for all those who don't find a cog space in today's hyper-capitalist economy. The No Hellos Diet is the story of a shop clerk with no dreams or aspirations, told in the second person because, frankly, this is your life we're talking about here." - Guardian , on the English-language edition