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** spoiler alert ** I thought this book was even better than Book One. I couldn't put it down once I started it. The intrigue of who to trust or not to trust was compelling. The only bummer is having to wait till Book Three comes out.
The political poems are good, but nothing spectacular. I like the simplicity in most of his writing, but wish he pushed the poetry more.
I have given away a few copies of this book to friends. I think it's brilliant, but at the same time I recognize that it can be absurdly boring. I've never read anything like it. Let's put it this way, if you were considering reading this book, you should read the first ten pages and you will know if you want to read it or not.
It was pretty good, though I figured the ending out earlier than normal. The characters were really horrible people, but they had good back stories.
while asking my bff (and fellow avowed feminist) if she had ever read this, she commented "i couldnt get past the cover." while the author is obviously not directly responsible for the imagery, i'm also kind of surprised by the art. naked midriff/hip? what gives? anyway, i read this book because i do like feministing.com and wanted to see what i would get out of this book. turns out, not much. while i think it does a good job of giving younger women an overview of feminism, i HATED the writing style. it was so conversational, full of cursing, and just plain annoying that it made it hard for me to cull a message out of it. when i read a book, i expect a modicum of correct english, formality, etc. and this just didn't have it. in that way, i feel like it discredits the message by not presenting it as anything other than a friend telling a friend 'this is fucking cool, i know, right?" part of me is surprised it got published. it also gets too into the 'this happened to me, so it is right' mentality that i don't think is relevant to the feminist movement as a whole. i know that a lot of times womens studies can verge on group therapy and personal confessions, but this was too much. i don't need to know how great valenti's sex life is, i just need to know that there are options out there, and that the more i learn about myself sexually, the more fulfilling my sex life will be. end of story. i don't need to know about the time she wore a sweater to meet prez clinton and everyone talked about her boobs on the internet. don't care, nor does it help me shape my feminist viewpoint by reading about it. the book could have been worse, i suppose, but if i knew a younger woman who was becoming interested in learning more about feminism, this is NOT the book i would recommend. in my opinion, there are too many other relatable, WELL-WRITTEN books out there that this one can't touch.
Certainly a page turner and it's got me hooked on the Jack Reacher books, I'll be working my way through the rest of the series. Some quite fantastical death escapes, these books will make excellent films. But Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher? Wrong, wrong, plain wrong!