Monday, March 23, 2009

The Inner Circle by T.C. Boyle

This is one that has been on my TBR lists for a while. It wasn't bad, it was just weird.

The book has Prok or Professor Kinsey doing his sex study back in the 1940's. A student John Milk starts by working for him in the biology lab, but quickly becomes his right hand. The book is written from John's perspective. The relationships are all a bit convoluted and almost incestuous as they are all having sex with one another.

Their philosophy is that is has nothing to do with love etc, just about biology. Of course those beliefs do get put to the test in the book.

Overall the writing style didn't grab me. It wasn't a book I ever felt totally engaged in. Another so so book to me.

1 comment:

  1. The biggest impression The Inner Circle left with me was nagging wonder of how much was true. I'm still curious, to be honest.

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