Book Title: Going Bovine by Libba Bray
Topic: Road Trip and Mad Cow Disease
Thoughts: Weird. . . . I don't know what I thought this book was going to be, but it is not what I expected at all. I noticed that the person who checked this book out before me only made it to chapter four--shame on you for folding down a corner of the book; haven't you heard of a book mark?
I continued to read and once Cameron and Gonzo, a dwarf with a hypochondriac mother, escape the hospital the pace picks up. Cameron has been diagnosed with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease--we know it as mad cow disease--and is going to die unless he finds Dr. X who can cure him. Cameron and Gonzo take off on a surreal cross-country trek, where they meet teenagers who are always satisfied (is that an example of a oxymoron?), a talking gnome--after watching Gnome and Juliet who wouldn't want one of those on a trip--a punk rock angel, and college students on spring break.
This is not your realistic-fiction novel. It reminds me of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy without the sarcasm. Cameron is on a mission to save the world, and as I read I felt at times I had mad cow disease trying to follow the stream-of-consciousness of Cameron's thoughts.
Side note: When my daughter saw me reading the book at the other end of the couch, she thought the author's name was "library." I guess it looks like it at a glance.
I continued to read and once Cameron and Gonzo, a dwarf with a hypochondriac mother, escape the hospital the pace picks up. Cameron has been diagnosed with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease--we know it as mad cow disease--and is going to die unless he finds Dr. X who can cure him. Cameron and Gonzo take off on a surreal cross-country trek, where they meet teenagers who are always satisfied (is that an example of a oxymoron?), a talking gnome--after watching Gnome and Juliet who wouldn't want one of those on a trip--a punk rock angel, and college students on spring break.
This is not your realistic-fiction novel. It reminds me of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy without the sarcasm. Cameron is on a mission to save the world, and as I read I felt at times I had mad cow disease trying to follow the stream-of-consciousness of Cameron's thoughts.
Side note: When my daughter saw me reading the book at the other end of the couch, she thought the author's name was "library." I guess it looks like it at a glance.
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