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The Bell Jar

Sylvia Plath

Start date: January 15, 2016

Finish date: February 15, 2016

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Mar 13, 2010 Gaijinmama rated it really liked it

Shelves: fiction, classics

I have conflicting feelings about this book. On the one hand, it deserves its place as a classic if only for the author's keen sense of observation and way with words. She also had a sense of humor...Sylvia Plath, who knew!!

On the other hand, that's the tragedy. I was almost too pissed off to finish. What a horrible waste of a gifted writer who was actually an interesting person. I am left sad and angry, just absolutely furious that Plath lived at a time when a woman with her skills was not appr ...more

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Sep 19, 2016 Karen rated it liked it

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I realize that this is a kind of contemporary classic, and many people loved this book. I found that I wanted more out of it. I didn't get the transitions. Maybe if it had been a longer book?

03/14/2021: Although I can say that I liked this book more with the reread, I still felt that the transitions were too abrupt. I reread this because I am reading Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath, the new biography.

The Bell Jar is the story of Esther Greenwood, a brilliant college stu ...more

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