I decided to take time out of listening to OF Tape Volume 2 just long enough to start reading my fourth quarter blog book and download OF Tape Volume 2 off of itunes best $14.99 I spent in a while. Anyway The book i'm reading this quarter is
Going Bovine by Libba Bray. This book I honestly just picked up because it had an interesting cover. I know shouldn't have done that the whole "don't judge a book by the cover thing." But that is what usually motivates me to read a book. I don't care about the fact that it is on the New York Times Best Seller list. I am the reader that would like to read the book either before it becomes popular or years after it's popular. I got a Hipster mentality avoid mainstream society at every chance possible.Anyway the book
Going Bovine is about this 16 year old kid named Cameron. Cameron has a normal life average grades in school a job at a fast food restaurant, the occasional pothead. A normal life for a teenager, that is until Cameron finds out he has Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease or more commonly known as the human form of Mad Cow Disease. So Cameron has to travel across the country to find a man known simply as Dr.X, who is the only one with the cure to Cameron's disease. Along the way Cameron meets this dwarf named Gonzo who follows him on this quest. And along the way Cameron battles fire Giants, escapes a bowling happiness cult, and face a mysterious foe the Wizard of Reckoning. I wish i could say more but....
Conflict is in between multiple characters but mostly between Vera and some other character . "Is it ok to hate a dead kid? Even if I loved him once? Even if he was my best friend? Is it okay to hate him for being dead? In this quote Vera has a conflict with Charlie post-humous. In my opinion conflict is the important part of a novel. Conflict adds excitement to a novel.