Book Review : Eureka Street

"All stories are love stories"

That's the way the book begins. A simple quote, a simple idea, but with a complex understatement. I finished this novel i would say a month ago, but with all the things that been going on, School, work, chiropractor visits, Ive been neglecting my blog. There's a good story to how I came upon this novel. I remember it was a Sunday morning, I was working the bar, and knew I had to pick up limes from the country store. I took my walk down Main street and I would always pass by the local book store, I never really paid much attention to the window display, but this day something jumped at the. The cover was enticing two men looking like they were friends for a long time, one smoking a cigarette and the other looking like what I was wearing at the moment white button up shirt, with a slim tie. That drew me in. I finished my shift that day and went to the beach where i first opened the novel. "All stories are love stories," The book in a nutshell; Set in Belfast, Eureka Streettakes us inside the lives of two unlikely friends--Chuckie, a Protestant, and Jake, a Catholic--as they try to carve out lives for themselves in the war-zone that they call home.
The story revolves around the woman we have and the woman we could of had. Chuckie tantalized by the full of life American woman Max, and Jake suffering from the lost love of Sarah the American that wanted nothing more than marriage but Jake not acting fast enough to realize his wanting for nothing else. In a way i viewed myself within these two unlikely characters with the fact of love and loss. One always wants the best in a woman, not realizing that its a two part dance, and growth as a group not an individual. Through out the story Jake starts a metamorphosis of growth, of individualism, he discovers what true love means. He finally sees that one cannot grow and be in a relationship with out finding out ones self. Something that I have also experienced. Over all an Amazing book I recommend it to all guys out there trying to find some balance in their journey of self discovery.

" I'd had an unhappy childhood. My folks had fucked me about in complicated and uncomplicated ways. A poor boy's childhood is thought to be a bad thing. Its supposed to make you sad. I just think having that childhood of mine ever really made me sad. I just think it made me fall in love with girls all the time."

Its a keeper!