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theverbalthing's review
5.0
I just have so much respect for all of these women as authors, and I think the portraits painted of them in this book are incredible. Their relationships all clearly had such an effect on their work, but the most interesting thing is that many of them were only recognized because of these relationships, and not because of the work that they produced. The feminist in me was thrilled to encounter this book and then ingest every word of it, as was the writer in me.
mpop's review
informative
slow-paced
2.0
I did learn about famous women authors and their lives, but overall this wasn't the book for me. The author argues that each of the women discussed in the book got something out of the unhealthy relationship(s) they had with famous male authors, which is fair - generally people do get something out of relationships, at least at the beginning. However, the arguments weren't particularly compelling and often seemed speculative - not necessarily in a bad way, but in a sort of literary-dissertation way, which is not what I was looking for.
This part is not on the author, but the book was also very poorly copy-edited/designed. I saw at least one punctuation mark in the middle of a word, and the spacing between words/punctuation was often weird.
This part is not on the author, but the book was also very poorly copy-edited/designed. I saw at least one punctuation mark in the middle of a word, and the spacing between words/punctuation was often weird.
himissjulie's review
2.0
Man, the copyeditor for this book needs a talking to, and the author as well. Com,mas in the middle of words,,, random "switch to quotes with no discernible source." Badly written, but the subject matter was incredibly interesting. Terrible title, too. "Ha, ha, get it, sheets? Writers? Sex?"