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Ask the Dust

John Fante

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"I chose to read Ask the Dust because I heard a lot about John Fante from college professors and also from other authors such as Charles Bukowski. The book is about Arturo Bandini; he's an immigrant from Colorad - he's Italian, so he's from Italy - but he moved to Colorado, and it's a story just basically about his struggle with writing, addiction, moving to L.A., and just trying to live in Los Angeles around 1930, I believe. I loved the story. I love how it just - it tells the time of an era about the early 30's in L.A. and how things were different, work was different, there was no rights for workers, and the boss had all the power. I really like that, and how everyone just seemed to struggle to get by. I'm a struggling musician, and coming to the Bay Area, trying to have my music heard and have everyone know who I am, I can relate to that definitely; and it's really hard, especially struggling as a musician, to make money off that. So I think writers and musicians have the same kind of goals and the same problems in live. I would recommend this book to anyone. It has a really good story, it's - there's nothing, no bad language in it, everything is good. So young kids, older people like enjoy this book. It's almost like reading Hemingway. It's very simplistic to the point, but there's so much more in depth behind what he's actually saying. I would rate this book as five stars out of five."