Saturday, July 26, 2003

there's a theme emerging here...


The Bug, Ellen Ullman--After reading an interview with Ullman in Salon and an excerpt of this book in a promo from the publisher, I was really eager to read the whole thing; for some reason, on Weds. I decided that I just had to have it, so I took myself to the undergrad library (their fiction doesn't get checked out as much, and I can keep it for a year) and picked it up. The book didn't live up to my expectations, although I have a hard time putting my finger on why. I think it just got a bit boring after a while; if you're going to base a book on a guy whose life is spiralling downward, then you should make his trajectory interesting, at least. Perhaps I simply didn't appreciate the literary nuances, but this book fell flat for me.

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