Pigtopia by Kitty Fitzgerald This little piece of magic came my way one day and I couldn't believe my luck!
 
Inventive, magical, reflective and very powerful.
 
Not for the faint-hearted or narrow-minded or imaginatively challenged or lazy.
 
It will make you work and you will soon realise that you ain't in Kansas anymore.
 
Divine!  ( )

Have your read or watched a movie detailing the plot of the Frankenstein monster? Well, then you already know the plotline of this book.

- Replace the little girl with a different little girl.

- Replace a resurrected man and stolen brain with a large headed guy who has some mental disabilities, lots of family issues, a collection of pigs in a tunnel under his house and talks like Elmo from Sesame Street.

Really.. I had the same "that could have merit" reaction that you are having right now. I can promise you that you are better of reading something else.

Nothing against the author or the work, it's just been done before, and this didn't really bring anything new to book world.

I feel like I got dumber while reading this. It's not like reading Faulkner's 'Sound and the Fury'. There is no Benjy inside the main character, waiting to pop out in some raging stream of concio-awesomness.

It is not like reading the Haddon's 'Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime', with it's clever approach and interesting character development.

This book may be right up peoples alley, so if you wanna give it a shot, do it. However, I can firmly state that I found it very very very similar to drowning in wet cement while muppets danced around me mocking my pain.

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You want to read a good swine relevant story? Try a coming of age story that was required reading when I was in high school (likely still is). Paul Zindel's 'The Pigman'.

Push those memories, I know you can do it.. Yeah, that to the left of the drug haze, was your reading list, including the Pigman. Remember it? Yeah, it was very good. ( )

The book reminded me of the curious incident in the nightime, but with pigs. It is about a thirty-something man with a very young mental age who befriends teenage girl Holly Lock and their struggle to keep their friendship secret.The story is told in their two very different voices about their family problems, their friendship and of course, Jack's pigs that he raises in secret in the local woods. ( )

Very wild fable about a disfigured man and his pet pigs. Tragic, beautiful and not for the squeamish. A sad reflection on how cruel people can be to those who are different. Does not say much new, but does so beautifully. ( )