"Poor Things" by Alasdair Gray

“Seen the movie? Now read the book. Odd and unusual and surprising. Loved it. I also lived in Glasgow for 6 years and enjoyed recognizing places in the book.”

“Structure is everything in this amazingly gonzo and wickedly entertaining collection of found "historical" documents that includes the Frankenstein tale of Bella Baxter, a dead woman brought back to life implanted with the brain from her fetus, as well as Bella's own shocking rebuttal, raising the question of why so people prefer to believe a man's outrageous lies over a woman's truth. Ironically, the visually spectacular + intellectually vapid movie adaptation, by only including part of the novel, butchers the story + basically proves Gray's point, that too many men would rather reduce women to mindless sex objects than acknowledge them as actual people. (I love how Gray's novels + short stories use typography + illustrations; def. work to read in print.)”

“The movie was fun and the book is wonderful! Odd and surprising and woman centered.”