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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. You could call Tremblay’s novel the Animal Farm or Nineteen Eighty-Four for a new generation, but that would be easy, and not quite right. Like our other two entries, there’s a great deal of surface enjoyment here, just enjoying the ride, but Tremblay continually digs to find hidden deposits of emotion beneath the crazy, usually in reference to the nameless narrator’s childhood. There’s a lot of Orwell scattered about, yes, but Aldous Huxley and Douglas Adams are definitely present in spirit, resulting in a delightfully neurotic search for self and humanity in a universe that couldn’t give a rat’s ass whether you live or die. Read the full review here. sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
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FARM WANTS YOU!!! Farm is the mega-conglomerate food supplier for City, populated with rabidly bureaucratic superiors, and sexually deviant tour guides dressed in chicken and duck suits. City is sprawling, technocratic, and rests hundreds of feet above the coastline on the creaking shoulders of a giant wooden pier. When the narrator's single mother, whom he left behind in City, falls out of contact, he fears the worst: his mother is homeless and subsequently to be deported under City to the Pier. On his desperate search to find his mother, he encounters ecoterrorists wearing plush animal suits, City's all-powerful Mayor who is infatuated with magic refrigerators and outlaw campaigns, and an over-sexed priest who may or may not have ESP, but who is most certainly his deadbeat dad. Whether rebelling against regimented and ridiculous Farm life, exploring the consumer-obsessed world of City, experiencing the suffering of the homeless in Pier, or confronting the secrets of his own childhood, Swallowing a Donkey's Eye's narrator is a hilarious, neurotic, and rage-filled Quixote searching for his mother, his own dignity, and the meaning of humanity. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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Not sure what's going on, because I really love Tremblay's stuff, but this novel, [b:Animal Farm|7613|Animal Farm|George Orwell|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1424037542s/7613.jpg|2207778] on meth, simply did not hold my attention. I gave it the standard 20% (about 60 pages) to grab me, and it just didn't.