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The Bell Jar : A Novel (Perennial Classics) by Sylvia Plath (2000)
EVERY woman should read this book!!!
I'm glad to have finally read The Bell Jar. It was on my TBR for years, and then I bought a copy which sat around for another few years while I worked up the courage to start it. I needn't have waited so long. The book was an engaging, often beautiful immersion into the inner world of someone going through something very dark. And it somehow performed this trick without making me feel very dark as well.
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This, by itself, is an engaging read. But the fact that it is semi-autobiographical makes it all the more fascinating.
We human beings just have this perverse fascination for suffering/tortured fellow souls, don’t we? At least, I think I enjoyed this very much largely because I am such a human being — one with an inherent perverse fascination for our twisted side.
We human beings just have this perverse fascination for suffering/tortured fellow souls, don’t we? At least, I think I enjoyed this very much largely because I am such a human being — one with an inherent perverse fascination for our twisted side.
If I had read this as a fifteen year old girl I might have really identified with the main character. The imagery was beautiful but the story didn't grab me.
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May 31, 2015
Caitlin
marked it as to-read
