Monday, July 5, 2010

Palimpsest by Catherynne M Valente

Palimpsest felt like a drug dream fueled by Viagra and Ecstasy. I believe I was in violation of corporate policy by reading it on company property during lunch. The idea with this book is that a person sleeps with an infected person, has a weird dream, wakes up with a tattoo-like map somewhere on their body, then sleeps with lots of people who have a tattoo-like map to have more weird dreams. After about the first third of the book, the sex scenes are not described in detail. But various mutilations are discussed in detail throughout the book. I did finish Palimpsest, which is more than a lot of other people who didn't like it. I don't recommend this book. The writing is fairly good, though a bit descriptive.

Pages: 384

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