Ruby and the Stone Age Diet
When I don't like books like this, I assume that it's because I'm not cool enough.
Ruby... is by Martin Millar, and the book jacket helpfully tells me that Niel Gaiman loves him, as well as The Guardian, which are both things I like a lot. But I just don't get it.
The book is told in short, dysfunctional snippets by an unnamed male narrator. I *think* I'm supposed to be invested in the relationship No Name has with his best friend and roommate Ruby. I *think* the point is that Ruby is the only constant in his life, and perhaps his soulmate. But there's just too much goofiness -- Ruby writes a story about a lonely vampire that appears throughout the novel, No Name has an active fantasy life that involves getting kidnapped by aliens and landing on the moon -- and not enough structure for me.
Ruby... is by Martin Millar, and the book jacket helpfully tells me that Niel Gaiman loves him, as well as The Guardian, which are both things I like a lot. But I just don't get it.
The book is told in short, dysfunctional snippets by an unnamed male narrator. I *think* I'm supposed to be invested in the relationship No Name has with his best friend and roommate Ruby. I *think* the point is that Ruby is the only constant in his life, and perhaps his soulmate. But there's just too much goofiness -- Ruby writes a story about a lonely vampire that appears throughout the novel, No Name has an active fantasy life that involves getting kidnapped by aliens and landing on the moon -- and not enough structure for me.