Toria's Reviews > Outside the Dog Museum

I don't know why I like this book at all. I guess it's unique enough and has some good lines.

The protagonist was not fun or clever enough to make up for him being a shitty unsympathetic dude who is somehow the focus of a love triangle. I am so tired of shitty dude love stories. The Fountainhead has more grace and architectural genius and human spirit in a less annoying way than this book.

I was hoping it all was setting up for some payoff beyond "shitty dude realizes he's a shitty dude and says he'll try to be less shitty now", even though he continues being shitty and lying to himself about it. I don't know what the author was after, here, unless he was just having fun writing a shitty dude.

I appreciate, though, that the more whimsical elements manage to avoid coming off as silly or random. I like the shaman and photographer and dogs etc.