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Merryn Allingham asked this question about Sharp Objects:
I'm half way through this book but finding it very disturbing - not because it's psychologically disturbing, that after all is the genre of the book - but because it contains so much ugliness. The descriptions of pig farming (I'm a veggie so that doesn't help) and the heroine's need to continually cut herself are nauseating. I'm wondering if I'm alone in this reaction?
Thomas Elliott I never really thought about the pig farming, but the cutting definitely makes me cringe a little bit. I think it'd be more disturbing to see rather t…moreI never really thought about the pig farming, but the cutting definitely makes me cringe a little bit. I think it'd be more disturbing to see rather than to be described though, so we will see how they portray that in the upcoming TV series adaptation.(less)
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Sharp Objects
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