#book barf

[bookbarf]

Going from Jurassic park to the andromeda strain expecting the same amount of excitement because they were both written by Michael Crichton, was in hindsight a bad choice.

If you’re into pages and pages of government prose protocol writing then the andromeda strain might be for you! It’s still a good read but yeah… the movie’s good.

[asoundshift]

I started listening to Everything I Never Told You, which I have heard nothing but good things about, and it is just everything I hate about “literary fiction.”

Overwritten like you would not believe.

Every other sentence contains a phrase I SWEAR I have read in 500 other books (ie: their bodies fit together perfectly; the curtain of her hair; she breathed in the smell of the room like a fine wine...)

Welcome to Dead Girl Town ft. dangerous secret male friend/clear red herring, angry brother & special guest star, the indifferent police.

OH, look, Dad is a professor and he has a female TA. WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT POSSIBLY HAPPEN THERE???

I try to maintain a general policy of not reading novels about the struggles of heterosexual marriage or adultery, but I also like to keep up on the “literary fiction” bestsellers for work, and these two things are for some reason completely at odds with each other.

I was going to finish listening to it, but I caved and found spoilers about the ending, and guess what, it seems vague and nonsensical.