Its been awhile since I posted anything, and I thought I would get back to what this blog was supposed to be. Book reviews.
Tritcheon Hash By Sue Lang
I got this book as part of the LibraryThing Early Reviewers
Tritcheon Hash is set one thousand years from now on a planet called Coney Island. The woman of earth have had enough of the men, left them behind on the already dieing planet and set up house on Coney Island, where they are thriving nicely. They have contact with the men once a year to exchange male babies for frozen sperm. The men are not doing so well. They want to reunify with the woman. The people in charge of Coney Island want to be sure that the men are telling the truth about the sad state of their planet, so they send Tritcheon Hash on a recon mission to get soil, water and air samples. She gets caught almost immediately, and teams up with a man to try and get home.
Ill be honest here, I didn't much like this book. It felt like I was reading a rough draft at parts, not a polished, published novel. Being that it is quite short, I don't feel like I was given enough time to really get to know the characters, and thus felt they were slightly unbelievable.
I feel like the idea that us woman are better and smarter and you will all die without us was pushed to the forefront too much. I am not a feminist by any standards, I'm just a regular person who thinks having a penis or a vagina doesn't make someone better. I didn't like how feminist this book was, even going so far as to say the men were slobby meat eating cavemen, and the women were nice clean vegetarians. I am a woman, and I'll push anyone down who gets in between me and a steak.
All in all, I feel like this book needed some more time on the editing table. I might recommend it to a few people, but I think I would only give this book 2.5 stars out of five.
Looking For Alaska By John Green
Looking For Alaska is a book about boarding school. It's a book about love, and death. Its a book about drinking shitty wine and sneaking cigarettes. Its a book about friendship, and never to be forgotten pranks. But mostly, its a book about Alaska. Miles is the main character, and it is told from his POV, but its still a book about Alaska. About how beautiful and funny and smart and stupid and crazy and missed she is. John Green writes beautifully. I love his style, and the voice he gives his characters.
I wish John Green had been writing books when I was a teenager. Sometimes I feel like they would have changed my life.
I don't really want to say anything else about this book, because I want everyone to go out and read it. It wont take long, and it is a YA novel, keep in mind. But it is worth the read, trust me.
