Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2017--On the Bus between Pereira and Cali, Colombia
The book I finished reading on the bus today was The Flamethrowers
by Rachel Kushner. It took me longer to read it than other books have,
because there kept being sections that bored me. Much of it deals with artists
in New York--their social lives, their sexual lives, their dinner parties,
their conversations, etc. They can expound forever on the most
uninteresting topics! There is more to the book than that, and the two
story lines at different points in history were interesting. Readers'
reviews on Amazon show an almost even distribution of ratings with 16%
giving the book only 1 star and 23% giving it 5 stars with the overall
average being 3.2 stars. I give it 3 1/2 stars, and that is a bit
generous because of the quality of the writing being so good; the story
itself wouldn't rate that high.
