Lucy's review
Home Land by Sam Lipsyte
i really should have known better than to pick this book up, given that its most fervent admirers compared it to a confederacy of dunces, which i hated. i think i've lost my ability to browse for books, though. the reason i found myself with nothing to read was that i was down to only one book request at the library. when i went to get some new things to read i ended up wandering the stacks, wondering how i ever found good books to read by myself. in desperation, i picked up anything i remembered hearing about, although i think in the case of one of the other books i got, i'd heard bad things. i'm fairly ashamed of this, so i definitely need more practice at browsing the stacks. anyway, this doesn't get a whole number because i only read long enough to get through a session at the gym, since i didn't hate it more than i hate exercising without distraction. if you liked a confederacy of dunces, i could probably recommend it to you, still.
