Cows

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I might have given this book higher than three stars if not for the fear of what doing so might make people think of me.

There’s no pictures of Matthew Stokoe anywhere – remember we were googling on Clara’s laptop the other day, after milking time? It says things about rebellion, oppression, and corruption with such originality—I was laughing, cringing, and recoiling in disgust simultaneously. Deep down, I ABSOLUTELY LOVED "Cows", but on the surface, it was a bit hard to get past the shock factor! I knew how violent, bloody, gritty and possibly gross this book was supposed to be but little did I realize it was true. The only redeeming thing about this book is that it's short, so you don't waste a huge amount of your life screaming, "This is so stupid!It showed that while "COWS" used "WOWS" to attract curious readers eager to test their mettle, something about the work stuck with them, made them think about it more deeply beyond the emotional impact of the cheap shock.

All three featured similar moments of wretched repulsiveness, while all three had great depths of philosophical ideas buried beneath the grotesque content. After the roof got old, he started watching television obsessively, coming to believe that American sitcom families from the fifties led normal lives, and guaging happiness by those standards. Cripps who has this insatiable sexual fatherly taste towards Steven and gives us soooo many words of wisdom. This is satire - this book is one big satire that each person who reads it will come out with a different message from the person next to them.It’s a book about abuse, absence of love, and what happens when a person is driven to the point of losing their sanity. Stokoe has covered them in a layer of mud that won’t wash off and each character struggles to act ‘normally’ while battling this unseen poison that has infected them. Lucy is also messed up thinking everyone on earth has a poison growing inside their bodies and that is what makes them depressed and mean.