Going Bovine ISBN: 0739385577
Length: 15 hours 9 minutes
by Libba Bray, Erik Davies
Format: Audio
Published by Listening Library on September 22, 2009
Pages: 15
Source: library
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Can Cameron find what he's looking for?
All 16-year-old Cameron wants is to get through high school—and life in general—with a minimum of effort. It's not a lot to ask. But that's before he's given some bad news: he's sick and he's going to die. Which totally sucks. Hope arrives in the winged form of Dulcie, a loopy punk angel/possible hallucination with a bad sugar habit. She tells Cam there is a cure—if he's willing to go in search of it. With the help of a death-obsessed, video-gaming dwarf and a yard gnome, Cam sets off on the mother of all road trips through a twisted America into the heart of what matters most.
An unabridged recording on 12 CDs (15 hours, 9 minutes).
I think I am the last person on earth who has not read a Libba Bray book. I was looking for an audiobook that was available from my library and came across Going Bovine. I remember back in the day when it was all the rage among book bloggers. I decided it was time for me to see what all the fuss had been about. It was time for me not to feel left out and I’ll know how much I love my audiobooks.
What I liked
I loved the fantasy element in the story. I figured out it was not real halfway through the book, but I bet 16-year-old Hillary would have been dumbfounded at the end.
People that know me to know that I like my fiction to be more than a tad weird and unpredictable and this book delivered on that front. Imagine Alice in Wonderland on steroids, and you have Going Bovine.
The wild ride through a made up underbelly of America has to be one of my fave tropes, so I was happy that this had that trope.
What I did not like
This was one long ass book. I felt that some scenes could have been tightened up and it would still deliver the emotional punch that the book is known for
I have to that I too am a Libba Bray fan. Even it was a long ass book it had a good story and plot to speed things alone. Also, the audiobook version was a Godsend. It made it feel like the book wasn’t that long. I just happened to see the hardback and was like wow. IFanasty and sci-fi are my first loves, and it always feels good to go back n read all of them.
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