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She's Come Undone
by Wally Lamb
by Wally Lamb
I hated this book. I don't know how I managed to finish it. I have read some of the reviews where the readers were impressed with how well the male author relayed a story of a struggling woman. Are you kidding me? I found it insulting that this guy thinks that is how a woman would behave. Let me tell you something, I have gone through some hard times in my life, never did I find myself personifying a whale while sitting next to it watching it die. In my opinion, the story was about her descent into insanity - but, apparently where I read "insanity" some found "profundity." No. Nothing profound there. Just painful to my senses.
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Sep 23, 2009 11:49am
to this: "I found it insulting that this guy thinks that is how a woman would behave. Let me tell you something, I have gone through some hard times in my life, never did I find myself personifying a whale while sitting next to it watching it die." Gah, I hate defending the book, because I also disliked it, but with depression with psychosis or manic-depression, sometimes people can get to this way. However, even more distasteful was the metaphor itself. That was a ridiculous metaphor and it never caught on with me as being a good one.
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I don't think he's saying anything about women as a whole gender. Relax, and stop being so insensitive about mental illness. It's a real thing, you know. Let's not be obnoxious.
I found it insulting that this guy thinks that is how a woman would behave." - First of all, the author was not writing about the female gender as a whole. He was writing about a fictional character who did happen to have some deep-rooted emotional and psychological issues. Going thru "hard times" and have a clinical mental illness are completely different and if we read books only to dislike characters that are not like us, then what really is the point.
