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A review by carolimelemon
And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks by William S. Burroughs
4.0
Ok so- I’ll be honest I got the book for the title (after being sure no Hippos were harmed and learning a lot about how that name came to be.)
It was a good story but the Afterword covered it best “However, the plot difficulty with Hippos was alway that Kammerer’s death was not the end of a story but the beginning of one.”
Reading the details of the afterword helped me appreciate this book more and understand it’s significance.
It was a good story but the Afterword covered it best “However, the plot difficulty with Hippos was alway that Kammerer’s death was not the end of a story but the beginning of one.”
Reading the details of the afterword helped me appreciate this book more and understand it’s significance.