Short summary: WTF?



Maybe I'm missing something, but I'm not really sure what this book was about, or what the point is. There were lots of repeating themes, but I don't understand what any of them meant.



This book is also icky, in a slimy-tentacley-nauseating way. Some of my more horror-inclined friends like this stuff much more than I do. It just makes me feel yucky right before trying to go to sleep. Unfun.



There are two narrators, I hated one (arrogant journalist) and loved the other (eighth gr

Short summary: WTF?



Maybe I'm missing something, but I'm not really sure what this book was about, or what the point is. There were lots of repeating themes, but I don't understand what any of them meant.



This book is also icky, in a slimy-tentacley-nauseating way. Some of my more horror-inclined friends like this stuff much more than I do. It just makes me feel yucky right before trying to go to sleep. Unfun.



There are two narrators, I hated one (arrogant journalist) and loved the other (eighth grader). There is a lot of science about snails in this book too, but it's interspersed with fictitious science, so I couldn't tell which facts were actually facts. As a scientist this annoys me.



Are the events in this book metaphors for something greater? If so, I totally missed it. If not, then it has no point...