I just finished reading "Oryx and Crake" by Margaret Atwood. I tried to read "The Life of Pi" but it's somewhat pendantic and cloying (or maybe I mean annoying) and just not believable. As far as the whole white man writing the voice of an Indian, John Irving did it better in 'Son of the Circus" and that's not even "serious literature"
I might try reading 'The Alchemist' next but I think I'll have the same result. Books on heavy hipster rotation I usually find...annoying.
Yeah, I know that's terribly descriptive.
Self-conscious, overly impressed with itself, overly sentimental.
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