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DID NOT FINISH
This book was recommended to me by a friend and so I picked it up from the library and started reading it without actually looking at the author. I wasn't even halfway through the book when I realized, just from the style, that it was written by an author I don't care for. Even after that I kept trying to read it but could not finish.
What is it that bothered me about this book so much? It seems the author is determined to make the reader understand what these people went through so much that she creates what she thinks they may have been thinking and feeling, which can be fine to a point, but in this case it is too over the top. Its as if she doesn't trust her readers to think for themselves and imagine what may have been going on in the characters heads, so she has to, over and over again, explicitly tell you what everyone is feeling and thinking. Unless she could crawl into these peoples heads, she has no idea. It is a bunch of bull that shouldn't be called non-fiction. She also tends to talk down to her readers to the point of it being insulting. I understand the story is a wonderful one, but it blows my mind that so many readers can look past the terrible writing and the large amount fluff to rate it so highly.
What is it that bothered me about this book so much? It seems the author is determined to make the reader understand what these people went through so much that she creates what she thinks they may have been thinking and feeling, which can be fine to a point, but in this case it is too over the top. Its as if she doesn't trust her readers to think for themselves and imagine what may have been going on in the characters heads, so she has to, over and over again, explicitly tell you what everyone is feeling and thinking. Unless she could crawl into these peoples heads, she has no idea. It is a bunch of bull that shouldn't be called non-fiction. She also tends to talk down to her readers to the point of it being insulting. I understand the story is a wonderful one, but it blows my mind that so many readers can look past the terrible writing and the large amount fluff to rate it so highly.