Dominic Wei Wei itibaren Boa Cica - RN, Brasil
I read this book while travelling in Hawaii. I sort of wanted to live vicariously through the author--let's face it, I'll never have the cash to do what she did. I was most interested in her experiences in India, because I am married to an Indian man and had plans to travel there (I've just returned). But Gilbert's experiences, and thus her rhetoric, were so intensely personal and unique to her that I just couldn't relate. I don't know how anyone could. Though the book is well-written and certainly thoughtful, I didn't think it was terribly profound.
Laymon's characters and plots are usually (well, always) ridiculous. Come Out Tonight beats ridiculous to a pulp and then dances on its grave. You know the kid in Friday 13th who says, "I'll just go and check the wood shed (in the dark, on my own)"? Well, the characters in Come Out Tonight make him look like Einstein. Utterly preposterous. But after all, it's Laymon so what can we expect? In a scholarly mood, I may have given 1 star. With a belly full of Jack Daniels and lungs full of the finest hashish I may have given 5 stars. As a sober dumbass, 3 will have to do.
Okay, so revered writer, right? My opinion in three words: Blech, Blech, Blech! (That's me gagging).