A review by paultamborino
Germline by T.C. McCarthy

2.0

I decided that if you accept the narrator as unreliable in his telling of the story (at least the sequence of events), it's fairly readable. The chances of running into the same friends and acquaintances over and over, the "love" relationships with the women, and his ability to survive so well despite his utter lack of military training seemed so unrealistic it made me often cringe and wonder why the author chose this protagonist. If I thought of Oscar as a reporter just trying to tell a good story, I could accept it for the most part. The portrayal of drug addiction and the horrors of war were the only things saving this book from being completely horrible.