Arch's review
The End Of Alice by A.M. Homes
i don't really understand why this book has so many glowing reviews on this sight. sure, homes has written this well (hence the second star),but... i just don't buy it. it seems to me that she just really, REALLY wanted to shock you out of your cozy, middle-class, suburban old navy socks with this one. she tried excruciatingly hard to crawl under your skin and blow your mind with the depravity of her imagination. well, i'll tell you what -it's just too obvious that that was her mission. i mean, there are some incredibly detailed sex scenes in the book and all of them involve a minor - a pre-teen minor. and if that doesn't freak out the squares, there's also some S&M and other deviant sexual activites to make 'em faint. yeah! take that soccer moms! i don't want to sound too jaded or whatever but i just wasn't impressed. if you want to read a much better story written by a woman and told from the perspective of a male pedophile, read 'zombie' by joyce carol oates. this book is...more
Awesome review!!! From what I can recall of the book, I enjoyed your review more.
