Trying to put all that text together to get some idea about what the story is….
A couple of Native Americans flee their reservation for the big city, where they can now electrify vegetables???
Grackle
8 years ago
As much as I love a good vegan recipe, I really don’t get why some books–fictional novels, specifically–try to jam recipes in. It seems weird to me but maybe I’m wrong. The book is actually pretty highly reviewed and recommended, so maybe it had a less blah cover at one point, or word of mouth was SO good that people were willing to overlook it?
OMG, I nearly spewed, reading that. Bacon, MWAHAHAHAAH.
I’m just sorta boggled by how Vegan marries up with “Off the Reservation.” I have quite a few Native/First Nation friends, and you know what? NONE are bloody vegans. Not one. Doesn’t mean that they don’t exist, but it seems that they’re at the very least on the endangered species list.
I’ve liked reading recipes in SOME books. Or reading about the meals, say, in the Rext Stout Nero Wolfe series. (I also have a gifted-to-me Nero Wolfe cookbook, mind you!). But typical books? Nope, don’t get it. I, for one, have precisely zero interest in how Patricia Cornwell creates pasta sauce, and that sort of thing.
Same thing here. I’d love to discover an “electrifying” Indy book; I don’t need a free cookbook to get there.
Trying to put all that text together to get some idea about what the story is….
A couple of Native Americans flee their reservation for the big city, where they can now electrify vegetables???
As much as I love a good vegan recipe, I really don’t get why some books–fictional novels, specifically–try to jam recipes in. It seems weird to me but maybe I’m wrong. The book is actually pretty highly reviewed and recommended, so maybe it had a less blah cover at one point, or word of mouth was SO good that people were willing to overlook it?
I am wondering about the recipe thing as well. Whenever I see a fiction book with a recipe tag line I immediately wonder WTF.
Maybe we should produce a version of Animal Farm and include a few bacon recipes to jazz it up.
OMG, I nearly spewed, reading that. Bacon, MWAHAHAHAAH.
I’m just sorta boggled by how Vegan marries up with “Off the Reservation.” I have quite a few Native/First Nation friends, and you know what? NONE are bloody vegans. Not one. Doesn’t mean that they don’t exist, but it seems that they’re at the very least on the endangered species list.
I’ve liked reading recipes in SOME books. Or reading about the meals, say, in the Rext Stout Nero Wolfe series. (I also have a gifted-to-me Nero Wolfe cookbook, mind you!). But typical books? Nope, don’t get it. I, for one, have precisely zero interest in how Patricia Cornwell creates pasta sauce, and that sort of thing.
Same thing here. I’d love to discover an “electrifying” Indy book; I don’t need a free cookbook to get there.
Jam. Ha ha.