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The Bell Jar

Sylvia Plath

Start date: January 15, 2016

Finish date: February 15, 2016

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Jan 01, 2011 Jenny rated it it was amazing

Shelves: favorite-favorites, young-adult, classics, fiction, girls-gone-mad, american-lit, female-authors, deserted-island

I don't care how cliche it is to love this book I love it anyways. ...more

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Jan 19, 2008 Suvi rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: novels, _north-america, cities_new-york, 1940-1969

Oh how I feel ashamed for not liking this as much as I thought. But let me say this first : at some level I felt related to the protagonist during the New York days. Some chapters ringed so true in my mind that it was scary. The problem really was the vagueness of the writing. Although I'm a fan of huge descriptions and such I can enjoy some delicate word using, too. In this it just didn't work, don't know why. As I said, the New York part was wonderful. Also, I'm looking forward to reading Plat ...more

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Jul 13, 2010 Kristen Iworsky rated it really liked it

It wasn't the greatest choice of a book to read on vacation, but Plath was an amazing writer and it would have been great to see what else she would have written. ...more

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