I read this on the airplane, and it was a perfect airplane book. I'd seen the movie, so the plot was familiar enough that all the airplane distractions didn't throw me off. Moreau is trying to transform animals into men. He's also the mad scientist, certain that every advancement is always progress. So it's create new species and damn the consequences. Our hero is thrown onto the island and is there when the beast-men turn on Moreau. Exciting, with a warning about the dangers of science that is well ahead of its time. Liked this very much.
PUPPY Dysfunctional family has puppy that they need to get rid of. Mom places ad; family is coming over. Description of family. Mom: husband changed from long-haired attractive to stooped old man. Husband: talks constantly of living on a farm and doing what needs to be done, though he never lived on a farm. Conversations together: Sell and move to Arizona, get hooked on phonics for kids, buying a car wash. . . wonderful randomness. Straight-laced suburbanite comes to look at puppy. Seems like she will buy it, even though she is repelled by house. (Dog turds on carpet, filthy.) She is proud of how accepting she is until she looks out window and sees white trash's son tied by harness to a tree. Reader knows he is a menace to himself, darting across I-90, for example. Suburban mother beats hasty retreat, leaving dog to be (probably) drowned by dad who does what has to be done. Suburbanite remembers her own pathetic ch...
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