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Good street library score!

Hell yes!

Recommended by BL

I just can't

I'm regretting this already

I am trying to tittle each review this year with a book-related pun but I can't think of one for The Snail on the Slope. So instead I've gone with something as baffling as the book itself.

Snail is such a funny book while also being a bit of a slog. It goes off on tangents all over the place and not a whole lot happens. That is the point, though, so don't be put off if you are partial to Soviet satire. I think of it as Kafka with a sense of humour.

@futzle if you want more, we have a pretty big Coupland connection in our bookshelf

Excited to read this, because I absolutely love Roadside Picnic... although as I understand it, this was written by the brothers as a series of metaphors that they then forgot what they were supposed to mean. (I'm reading an English translation)

This was alright - it hooked me well enough to read it quickly but it felt more like a creative writing exercise than anything. I think I was a bit bored with the 1700s feminism and the story was pretty simple.

A birthday present from last year. This will be my first book that isn't horror in some time.

Loved the premise and the beginning chapters, but ultimately HSB avoids all possibilities for something insightfully great. Instead, it's all male gaze, breasting boobily and women suffering. Written in 2007 and aged badly. Joe Hill picked the wrong hero.