Book Review: The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break, by Steven Sherrill
td Whittle
Posted on April 17, 2013
The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break by Steven Sherrill My rating: 5 of 5 stars Here’s my advice and the three-word version of my review: read this book. There are some excellent reviews already on Goodreads about The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break, and I don’t have an especially brilliant addition to those. What I would say, though, is that the book is worth reading because the writing is sublime. It’s at turns funny and tragic. It engages our empathy in a way that reminds us — however uncomfortably — that we, too, are instinct-driven animals lurking beneath the more refined parts of our neocortex; that we are somewhat freakish and terribly vulnerable; and that, frequently, we are wholly or partially inadequate…