false 280254 0385516290 9780385516297 239 89 The Exception: A Novel http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173381511m/280254.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/280254.The_Exception_A_Novel 163050 Christian Jungersen 271 95 1 1 true Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 11 03:07:52 -0800 2009 Sun Mar 01 23:36:10 -0800 2009
there are two messages to this book:

1. all women are psychotic.
2. bullying in the workplace will get you everything you want.

this seems like it was written by a man who had a string of bad girlfriends who he wanted revenge upon, so he wrote them up as the four nastiest types he could conceive, all with a completely psychotic inner life (which he subjects us to in turn) going on under a surface that is otherwise quite normal. the most self-righteous, self-absorbed, most evil one of the lot is the one who gets everything her way in the end. there is no redemption and no good comes of reading this book.

run from it like the wind.

and on top of it, the english translation of it is absolute rubbish. but the book is no better in the original danish (i switched between the two the whole way and compared them in many places). life is too short for bad books...


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