The listener can almost remember the first feeling of freedom that comes with being at school away from family and the first feeling of sadness in realizing that children are not always kind. Although I listened to this book, I later had to get a print copy to note two of the lines that most affected me. Loser follows Zinkoff from his first day of school through his graduation from middle school with all the usual trials and tribulations that occur in grade school. No matter what befalls the sometimes hapless Zinkoff, he is never beaten - never the "loser." What may pass for simpleness to others is actually a buoyant, positive and uncomplicated disposition. He means to make the most of it."Īfter I got used to his unadorned, yet compelling prose, I realized how perfect it is for a story about a boy, Zinkoff, who is also simple, direct, unadorned and compelling. Recess turns out to be just another name for life as he has always known it. He expected recess to be something different, something new. Zinkoff bursts onto the playground with the other Satterfield first-, second- and third-graders. It took me some time to adapt to Spinelli's direct writing style, I downloaded the mp3 version of Loser, read by Steve Buscemi. This was my first encounter with his large body of work. Somehow, I've managed to live this long without having read Jerry Spinelli.
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