Read Online There Is No End To This Slope Fabricated By Richard Fulco Formatted As Paperback

to come I love this book, I do not love John Lenza, the protagonist, because as the title suggests he never stops his downward slide, He's the kind of guy who never gives himself a break, nor can he accept the favor from someone else, He carries around quite a heavy load and has never learned or perhaps more likely refuses to learn how to give it up.

The weight he hauls around with him even though originally based in love has turned into something not very lovely at all.
It seeps and penetrates his thoughts, actions and very being, Life is frustrating enough but Lenza's habits push this frustration to the limits of his soul,

Richard Fulco has created an extraordinary character from an ordinary man, The book made me think of The Stranger by Camus and the inexorable slide of a Greek tragedy nothing to be done but to watch the spool unwind.


Having set the story in New York City, a place Fulco knows well, allows for John Lenza to easily meet a cache of characters helpful and not so helpful.
if he would only allow himself to take advantage of certain situations but then, of course, the slope would have come to an end.


Highly recommended. A funny, tragic tale following the world's most unreliable narrator, John Lenza, Through his eyes and conversation with friends and some family, we tease out the truth of his life, which makes for a captivating read.
I highly recommend this novel to anyone with a love of doomed protagonists who find themselves caught in absurd situations,.stars

Giveaway copy provided by TNBBC book club and publisher for an author/reader discussion, Here's a book I won in a giveaway from TNBBC, thank you Lori! I found out about this book awhile before the giveaway started, I'm not even sure where I found out about it.
I found it interesting though, it was a book that

was right up my alley and then poof, there was a giveaway one day.


The book isn't too long but the font was super tiny, making it a long read, It was enjoyable, it has everything that makes a contemporary book enjoyable, A cast of characters with a variety of personalities, humor, a flawed hero, and all of the people who assist you in your healing or join in the self destruction.
The main character, John Lenza, suffers from depression and constant guilt due to the death of his friend, Stephanie, a girl that he was in love with.
Despite that it was an accident, he constantly blames himself for her death, Ever since then, he floats on through life, without really loving anybody or doing anything productive, just following a routine and trying to live, but not really live.
His ultimate flaw will eventually cause his downfall after a string of events,

He has a relationship with two woman, they both fail because they both want something different in life and are dysfunctional in their own ways.
John's attachment to the remaining memories of Stephanie seems to disturb the people that surround him, The women leave and then a man named Teeny moves in and then Richard, Heather, and his landowner Pete, These three men and one woman try to piece his life together, Persuading him to move on, get some writing done, and love himself, He is incapable of doing this and these people walk in and then leave him as life moves on,

There is No End to This Slope is a novel about alienation and the bumpy roads of life, with a nice amount of humor and wit.
People misunderstand each other, they hurt and they don't forgive or they don't have the voice to do so, Life can be so mundane and unforgivable that people have no choice but to push on, The characters in this novel, where there is also a play in the story, are real and understandable and the writing, the references to literature and music, Teeny's play.
It's all about trying to understand others despite the vast differences from music taste to books to your very thoughts, The only way to understand others is to set yourself aside and walk in their path, You have to perform your own play in other to understand what has happened,

By the way, I also loved how the book also place took in Brooklyn, New York, Some parts were in Prospect Park, an area I used to live in, So that was pretty cool, There is No End to This Slope is a beautiful novel of loneliness and moving on through life's toughest obstacle courses,

Rating:/I really enjoyed this book, John Lenza could be any one who is in a dead end job, with a dead end life, By making little or no choices, he is making choices on what is in store for him throughout the book, I truly enjoyed the "real" feel of the characters and the scenario, It was like I was there sitting on the stoop across the street, watching John's pathetic life unfold before me,

Well worth picking up and reading, I look forward to more novels by Richard Fulco in the future!

I did receive this book for free from the author for an author discussion group.
I am glad I did, this may not have been something I would have normally looked at twice, but I am so glad I read it!
A great debut novel.
Loved it. More! I shouldn't be writing that this is a fun book to read, considering John's struggle through breakups, bad decisions, unhappy friendships, and a lousy job, but it is fun, if the type of fun that makes one wince while reading, wanting to know what's next on the character's horizon.
I liked Richard Fulco's ability to draw the main character as flawed but loveable, relatable and yet exacerbating, I found myself at once rooting for John and wanting to smack him in the face, so real he was to me, as if he was an old friend I kept around just to hope he'd figure it all out.
You won't want to put this book down, and if you have an appreciation for pop culture, New York, and an enduring test of the human spirit, youll love it as much as I did.
Great job, Richard Fulco! sitelinkRichard Fulco
John/Gianni felt like a skinny Italian Ignatius J, Reilly. A lovable loser from the outer boroughs, when Brooklyn was still considered an outer borough, Well written and thoroughly enjoyable,
I receive TINETTS as an author giveaway for discussion here on goodreads, I liked the way the book started with John Lenza introducing us to his life, That also took it downhill for me with each passing page, John Lenza is a doomed protagonist, and it just keeps getting more and more evident exactly how doomed as you read on.
The book is named quite aptly, but I honestly did not understand why I would want to read about and potentially celebrate John as a protagonist in any capacity.
Maybe I was expecting to learn life lessons, and the fault would thus lie with my expectations, Even the support characters were equally disturbing,

I love my share of tragedy, but THIS is just not it, There is no message. There are no lessons to be learned, It is not entertaining. And how anyone can find any of this remotely humorous beats me, All in all, I think the only solace from this book was the easy page count of, A few hours of my life that I will never get back, . . I love a book that plunks you down in a very specific place with some very specific characters, We're in Brooklyn, and our sadsack narrator is a frustrated writer with a tragic secret from his childhood, How sad a sack is he He sells textbooks, people: nothing more need be said, I also love books that have a mystery thread that's both satisfying we get the resolution, and it's delivered perfectly at a surprising moment and a bit of a MacGuffin the mystery plays a role, but it's not really what the book is about.
Fulco has a great ear for dialogue, which we get both in the narrative and in snippets of plays within the text.
I do wish some of the women had been a bit more developed, though I also understand that the first POV means the narration is not alwaysreliable.


I also love first novels that make me very curious to see what the author does next, and that's what this is.
He writes letters to a dead girlJohn Lenza, an aspiring writer from Brooklyn, New York, hasnt written a novel, a play, or any other potentially publishable project.
His obsession with his part in the death of his best friend Stephanie in high school, is a metaphorical brick wallblocking him from a fulfilling life.
Lenzas struggles to reconcile his guilt from the past and to enjoy the present sets the tone for Brooklyn native and playwright Richard Fulcos emotionally charged debut THERE IS NO END TO THIS SLOPE.


By day, John Lenza sells textbooks to New York City schools, Like ast century Willy Loman, Lenza drifts, letting things happen to him rather than figuring out what he really wants from his worklife and his relationships.
At Cobble Hill High School he meets his future wife Emma Rue, an impulsive alcoholic, At a “writerly” coffee shop near his new digs in Park Slope he meets Teeny, an overweight gay man, who mines Lenzas life for his own material.
Richard, a homeless man becomes a voice of reason and a roommate, while Pete the landlord worries mostly about whether Lenza is truly taking special care of those beautiful wood floors in the apartment and, when Lenza loses his job, if the rent will be paid.


At one point in THERE IS NO END TO THIS SLOPE John Lenza describes himself as intelligent, perhaps too intelligent to do anything.
For him and many of the characters in Fulcos novel it is hard to find a way to navigate the daytoday while nurturing a sensitive and creative spirit.
Does John Lenza deserve to be tortured by something that happened so many years ago Or is the event really a safety net that he allows to prevent him from finding out what his true creative potential might be

Through deeply wrought characters and scenes that mirror the angst everyone faces as life happens and years pass, Fulco touches on a fundamental issue that drives great artists to selfdestruct.
Ironically when Lenza has wrung all he can out of his pained self, it may be the mundane daytoday that ultimately saves him.
Richard Fulcos “There is no End to this Slope” is the riveting, heartfelt cantputitdown story of John Lenza, a Brooklyn based textbook salesman with aspirations to be a playwright, one of those rare fictional characters that gets under the readers skin from page one.
Unpredictable and too sensitive for his own good, Lenzas predicaments by turns hilarious and heartbreaking are the stuff from which both nightmares and sweet dreams are made.
Fulco deftly unravels Lenza, a lost soul struggling with addiction and depression, like a physician unwrapping a ribbon of gauze from a trusting patient.
This journey into darkness is detailed with unflinching honesty but with the saving grace of the sensibility of a poet and musician who can boast an entertaining sense of lifes absurdity.
Music and musicians permeate the story, giving it a beating pulse, The readers eerie simultaneous objective birdseye view and intimacy of Lenza is a writerly feat of Fulcos that sets this book well apart from others.
The rest of the characters, a cast as motley and interesting as they come, are keenly observed through the sharp and unforgiving lens of Lenza himself whose destiny, tenuous as it is, is delivered with a touching ring of truth that satisfies.
This is a book that replies to the question “Where are we going” with the inscrutable reply “Ultimately or immediately” The reader is rewarded with unending layers of deep meaning that resonate long after the last page is read.
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