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A review by catdad77a45
Dot in the Universe by Lucy Ellmann
3.0
3.5, rounded down.
Even given the outré nature of Ellmann's oeuvre, this is a decidedly odd duck, and am afraid I didn't cotton to it as much as her other novels (or maybe reading all of them in quick succession is burning me out on them?) It's kind of an unholy feminist amalgamation of [b:Candide|19380|Candide|Voltaire|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1345060082l/19380._SY75_.jpg|2833018] and [b:Inferno|15645|Inferno (The Divine Comedy #1)|Dante Alighieri|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1520255019l/15645._SY75_.jpg|2377563], filtered through Ellmann's sui generis sensibility. Not awful, but in the lower tier for me of Lucy-ness.
Even given the outré nature of Ellmann's oeuvre, this is a decidedly odd duck, and am afraid I didn't cotton to it as much as her other novels (or maybe reading all of them in quick succession is burning me out on them?) It's kind of an unholy feminist amalgamation of [b:Candide|19380|Candide|Voltaire|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1345060082l/19380._SY75_.jpg|2833018] and [b:Inferno|15645|Inferno (The Divine Comedy #1)|Dante Alighieri|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1520255019l/15645._SY75_.jpg|2377563], filtered through Ellmann's sui generis sensibility. Not awful, but in the lower tier for me of Lucy-ness.