Life and Times of Michael K

I would not recommend reading this book. I was thinking "J.M Coetzee, yeah! This book is going to be awesome!". No. It wasn't bad, in that, it held my interest for about the first 60 pages and the last 40. But the part in between was a repetition of earlier scenes. Michael K was a harelipped man who was disconnected from our world. He starved himself because he would only eat "food that was of the world", i.e. the pumpkins he grew on a patch. He was homeless for the majority of the book, and was content to sleep most of his life. You would probably like him, Terri. It was cool in that I have never read about a person who was so detached from the objects society puts value on...but was detached to the point of insanity.
The book was set in South Africa during a war, but it was never made clear what war, and who were the people fighting each other. The only reference made was that they were fighting so that the minorities could determine their own destinies.
But, like all books, it had a few moments that were beautiful. The last forty pages were primarily narrated by a doctor, and his viewpoint was intriguing.