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⌈ Secret Post #3406 ⌋

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Comments

Re: What have you read recently

[(Anonymous)]

Just finished reading Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn.

I wouldn't say I'm ambivalent about it exactly - I think it was really good and I enjoyed reading it. But at the same time, there were several big aspects of it that bugged me. So I guess I'm still kind of mulling it over.

Also, now I'm sad because I've read all of Flynn's novels and damn it why aren't there more! :P

Re: What have you read recently

[(Anonymous)]

I don't know quite how to feel about Gillian Flynn. I mean, I've read all her books but I don't know. I read one, didn't love it but still felt compelled to read another, read another and didn't love it but still felt the need to read the other, then read it and didn't love it either but I'll still probably read the next one that comes out. I don't really understand, but there's something about her books that make me feel drawn to them even if I don't necessarily like them.

Well, for my part...

[(Anonymous)]

Going purely off her books, I find she has a fairly ungenerous view of people, if that makes any sense. The way she writes people makes it seem like most people are weak, misanthropic, selfish to the point of nastiness, or downright sadistic. And while I definitely think human beings exist across a huge spectrum and there are plenty of shitty people in the world, my experience of humanity has been, for the most part, several shades lighter and kinder than the way Flynn paints it. Which can make her books chafe with me a bit, at times.

I especially notice this with how she writes women. On the one hand, it really like that Flynn writes complex, flawed, not-entirely-likable women with believable strengths - strengths that are no less admirable for the fact that they can be buried under a lot of other personal shit. On the other hand, Flynn writes a lot of female characters, and the very best of them (by which I mean kindest and strongest) can be described as...neutral*. Many are iffy - a bit mean, a bit callous, or else self-involved and petty. And the scale ranges from there, all the way to "Vicious Serial Killing Psycho" (of whom there are several). The way Flynn characterizes women isn't very charitable, is I suppose what I'm saying. And I think if you were somehow able to melt down every depiction of a woman in each of Flynn's novels into one substance, you would get something quite a bit more petty and cruel and selfish and pitiful than your average real life woman. Which, again, can chafe with me a bit.