by T.C. Boyle
So I really liked The Women (Boyle's book about FLW's life and loves) and thought it might be interesting to read Boyle's take on environmentalism and our (speaking for humanity at large) responsibility towards other creatures.Unfortunately, I found this novel to be at best boring, at worst preachy,...
This was not my favorite Boyle. It is really well thought out, and his descriptions of Channel Islands is really very good, but I didn't buy it. Both Alma and David LeJoy (interesting that Alma's last name isn't as resonate) felt like straw dogs. He always has an agenda, but he usually gives his cha...
The complexities of human interaction with the environment creates a compelling storyline. The fully conceived characters are idiosyncratic, complicated, and often unpredictable. My first T.C. Boyle novel and I am hooked!
This is the book that led me to finding Goodreads. I was doing a search on the title and "vegan" because I was surprised (and disappointed, to be honest) that Dave LaJoy, the character who founded and ran the fictional For the Protection of Animals, was not one. The first time this is revealed, he i...
The Channel Islands off the California coast, near Ventura, are home to many species of flora and fauna that are either rare or nonexistent elsewhere. Serial invasion by intent or accident having placed many of these species at risk of extinction, the National Park Service wants to restore natural b...
Both Dr. Alma Takesue, who works for the National Park Service and David Lajoy, a strong-minded animal activist, want to save the wildlife on Santa Cruz island which lies off the coast of California. But they can't agree on how it should be done. Takesue favors exterminating the invasive species (...
Technically kind of perfect--it's a thick, rich, structurally-complicated and yet utterly compelling study of a few vehement believers, colliding. No one writes misguided, arrogant, genuine, ultimately-engaging assholes as well as Boyle. Franzen tries, but his latest is on the rocks with more than...
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