Balder the fierce, immortal, garden gnome viking, is my favorite character of going bovine by far. He is introduced right after Cameron (the main character) escapes from the hospital with his midget bro, Gonzo. Anyway Balder comes in the story after Cameron meets a girl outside of the motel he is staying at, and she ends [...]
In the act of being lazy, I am now deamed a “Bovine Fool”.
When I left English class to go search for a book in the library (because if I didn’t I would be in trouble), I came across a book that just by its appearance captured my eye, it was going bovine, by Libba Bray. Eh, they always say never to judge a book by its cover [...]
Dare I choose to write about a predetermined (technically optional) topic?
I was truly itching to write, or blog rather, about Cameron, the protagonist in going bovine. Cameron is a relatively tall, gangly, sixteen year old social outcast, who listens to crappy music for laughs and smokes weed. Oh, yeah, and he has Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (a.k.a. mad cow disease.). His ailment causes prions to eat holes [...]
