Currently Reading: No Country for Old Men, Kamikaze Girls

Picked up two novels I've been looking at for a while. The contrast didn't hit me until I put them on the counter.

 

Kamikaze Girls: Novala Takemoto.

 

My hypothesis: Based on the cover... a guilty little piece of literature that may or may not give me a mild mid-life crisis in which I walk about my house wishing that I was sixteen years old once more.

As did Battle Royale, as did Norwegian Wood.

No Country for Old Men: Cormac McCarthy.

My hypothesis: Tricky. I'm going to say... dry... gritty. Very masculine, almost Hemmingway-esque. In terms of the economy of words and such. That's a guess... and I dare say it's probably based on posters I've seen of the movie.