Going Bovine Analysis

The Scenes in Cameron's HeadCam and his family live somewhere in the vast state of Texas, and if we had to guess, it's probably the eastern part because the kid is bored. (Have you been to eastern...

Going Bovine is written from Cam's point of view, which is, let's face it, the only way this story could work. Seeing as the vast majority of his epic quest is comprised from his rotting brain's de...

AdventureUm, do we really need to elaborate on this one? If embarking on a quest to find a mysterious Dr. X in order to close a wormhole to another dimension while fighting off fire giants and evad...

Because the whole story is told from Cam's point of view, the tone of the book is the same one a grumpy, perpetually unsatisfied teenager would use to talk to someone they hang out with on a regula...

Libba Bray wrote this book so you feel like you're accompanying Cam on a long walk while he recounts the whole adventure, animatedly gesturing and talking to you as if you're part of his inner circ...

Going Bovine is a play on the fact that Cameron contracts Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, which is a human variant of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, otherwise known as mad cow disease. The whole stor...

Take my advice and live for a long long time, because the maddest thing a man can do in this life is to let himself die. – Cervantes, Don Quixote Hope is the thing with feathers. – Emily Dickin...

The ending of Going Bovine brings everything full circle, which is nice, though it also leaves us asking a few questions as well. Cameron has died and he's hanging out in the afterlife with Dulcie....

Going Bovine isn't one of those books that is overly wordy or lofty in what it is trying to achieve, so it's not, like, rocket science. However, it does talk an awful lot about rocket science-y stu...

#firstworldproblemsThe book opens and we are introduced to Cameron, a disgruntled, self-absorbed, hilariously sarcastic sixteen-year-old boy. He faces the normal teenage issues—social anxiety, r...

When you're feeling like you've really accomplished something, think about the fact that Libba Bray wrote the first draft of this book in only three months. Three. Months. (Source.) Libba Bray only...

Up until Cam loses his virginity to Staci Johnson we just have a bunch of veiled references to boners and other teenage innuendo, and then once he does the deed it's pretty vague. That said, he doe...

Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote (Epigraph; 2.3; 4.108)Song of Solomon (29.127) "It's a Small World" (Epigraph; 1.1, 1.7; 10.50; 31.12; 47.55; 49.28) Schrödinger's Cat (2.29)MTV parallels (Through...