Remarkably Bright Creatures

I do not often recommend the audio of a book over reading the text, but I will with this one. This is so delightful! I chuckled more in the first two hours than I have in dozens of books put together. I love the snarky, "too cool for school" octopus and the narrator doing this part is terrific. The character Marcellus the Octopus more than covers over a few of the REALLY annoying traits in the book: the manbaby who needed a few more smacks when he was a kid and the author for making late-60s, 70 sound like "close to death". (Seriously, authors of a certain age should not be allowed to write about "old" people, particularly women, unless they've met more than a few. I know of a couple dozen who would make her rethink her life, let alone the representation in the book.)