Our Tragic Universe, Scarlett Thomas

isbn: 97818471295 is by an author I like (my blog).  A ‘guess’ rather than a newspaper review pointed me in to getting this book which just proves how shit some newspapers are with book reviews unless its about danish cows.

Anyhow since i read a newspaper that deems farm animal stories better than the dreaded ‘G’ word or has ‘popular’ author’s my guess was right.  The First 150 pages is a bit of a slog set in new agey Devon weirdness (also used in popco as a location) and that starts things going in an english literature way which bores the  living shit out of me.

Anyhow once introduced to the sightly mentally disturbed characters in Devon the author gets motoring by moving house and then the book finally becomes readable by discarding a lot of the junk.

If you like descriptive dog walking then read this, however the new agey /english lit thing did absolutey nothing for me probably since i have not read the book that ‘inspired’ this book

0/5 bananas