Cows

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When I read about this book I was confident that this was going to be a very good read but in reality I felt let down and while the book was interesting in spells it failed to grip me like I hoped. Stephen lives holed up in his room, watching perfect lives on TV, dreaming of what it would be like to be safe, to be happy, to be loved and to be normal. I read this book as it is to be our nonfiction book of the month and being a vegan was interested in learning more about cows. Before, when she was alone, the dripping accretion of neuroses in the deep pools of her guts was a rain sound across all of life. It smashes the walls you put around yourself, the walls other people put around you to stop you doing what you want.

In fact, this book is so good at creating a warped, immersive reality of its own—inside our protagonist, Steven’s head—that I can wholeheartedly say I absolutely loved it. A cow revolution is in the low bellowing and Steven, soon becomes the cow-back riding ringleader in a power struggle between cows and humans. The author has a farm where the animals are allowed to live more or less as they like until they go to the butcher.I'm not normally one to preface a review, or even mention in a review, when a book is not appropriate for certain audiences. Z jednej strony, bardzo przyjemnie czytało mi się wszystkie anegdotki związanie z krówkami i innymi zwierzakami, ale z drugiej strony, nie bardzo wiem co ta książka miała na celu. They are always part of a herd, and the herd is led by the biggest, probably oldest, female, never the bull.

The writing is impeccable, and if you can stomach the journey, it will take you to some very dark places. I’ve heard others mention Duncan Ralston’s ‘Woom,’ hell, even Duncan has said he’s not read the book but people say it’s similar to ‘Woom,’ but I didn’t fully make that connection.Cam, a lifestyle blogger, has carved a lucrative career on the internet with her frank and unapologetic attitude to sex, sexuality and gender.

The most thought-provoking elements of the book are Cam's blog posts, which crystallise a variety of topical arguments in popular culture that O'Porter engages with regularly in her columns for Glamour magazine, among other publications.

Lists 20 points long, saying things like, 'cows nurse grudges, cows take umbrage, cows can be unpredictable, cows can be dependable" with similar lists for pigs, sheep and hens are just filler and don't impress. She can feel this ‘thing’ festering under the surface, always growing and grabbing a hold on her insides and the depression it creates, where she understands that one day it’ll kill her, is horrifying to watch. I think that to make headway on this problem of extreme subject matter (or images) it is necessary to distinguish these, and probably others, and consider them one by one. Matthew Stokoe has written a novel like no other I've ever read--appalling, funny, and possessed of a sense of outre violence that makes Joris-Karl Huysmans read like Louisa May Alcott.