A review by cocoanut
Bear by Marian Engel

1.0

Suffering through 100 pages of pedantic description that goes nowhere only for our musty, sex-deprived protagonist to fondle a bear’s balls at the end. And he didn’t even really put it in?! Where’s my Ao3 payoff?

The only scene I remember that roused any emotion in myself as I read this book was that one passage where Ms. Bestiality takes a hot, fat shit in front of her love interest and he grunts in fascination as the shit pile begins to steam on a cold winter’s day. PLEASE refund my lifespan.

The fact that this got nominated by the CBC on their book list is the reason why Canada is masquerading as a first world country with an eroded social fabric and recessed economy.