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It feels a little perverse to so unequivocally love a book filled with so much gruesome misery: cults, coercive sex, oh and oh yeah mass murder. (Not to mention the larger-scale and more incorporeal miseries like: loneliness, social pressures, and the systematic disempowerment of women.) But this book, with all its unsavory subject matter, was filled with so many sad, beautiful observations, and stunning, keen insights that it was ultimately impossible not to love.
A 14-year-old in 1969 slowly fi ...more
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I found the beginning difficult to believe in-- the introspection is over the top, the sections in the present are forced and weird, and the angst is so pungent and sexual that it's painful. Eventually, though, I started to see how a girl who has been told by society over and over again that her opinions only matter in relation to men could hitch her star to a charismatic group of anti-establishment live-and-let-die slackers. Plus, the book is called The Girls (rather than The Man) for a reason.
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I waited for a long time for this from my local library.
I'm glad I waited to borrow rather than buy the book.
I was ultimately disappointed.
I felt the novel was too clever, trying too hard to be the great classic novel of teenage angst but ended up too over blown with language.
I liked the premise of the story and the era in which the book was set, however ultimately I felt the characters did not have the humanity to connect with the reader.
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I'm glad I waited to borrow rather than buy the book.
I was ultimately disappointed.
I felt the novel was too clever, trying too hard to be the great classic novel of teenage angst but ended up too over blown with language.
I liked the premise of the story and the era in which the book was set, however ultimately I felt the characters did not have the humanity to connect with the reader.
I would like to read another Emma Cline book in the ...more
Just didn't like this one. It's a quick, somewhat entertaining book to get through but the story felt weak and lacked focus. The main character wasn't developed enough for my taste. It was difficult to pin what the story was really about.
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