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A review by samnopal
The Study of Animal Languages: A Novel by Lindsay Stern
3.0
Honestly have no idea what I think about this book. The ending largely saved it for me but I can't agree with my self on the big finale.
The Protagonists are vapid and disconnected from reality. The eventual denouement is largely dismissed by the world around him because he's "typically reserved and calm" so it's out of character for him to proposition a coworker, aggressively kiss a teaching assistant, and jealously punch out a gay writer? No. But at the same time I like that the world is messy and complicated and it was captured in people's reactions. He wasn't (maybe) completely nonredeemable.
The Protagonists are vapid and disconnected from reality. The eventual denouement is largely dismissed by the world around him because he's "typically reserved and calm" so it's out of character for him to proposition a coworker, aggressively kiss a teaching assistant, and jealously punch out a gay writer? No. But at the same time I like that the world is messy and complicated and it was captured in people's reactions. He wasn't (maybe) completely nonredeemable.