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A review by lindseysparks
Last Bus to Woodstock by Colin Dexter
1.0
I love British mysteries so I was excited to start this series but it was so disappointing. It started off fine and the plot had me hooked. I've had trouble concentrating on a book for more than 10 minutes the last two weeks because I've been sick, but this sucked me in.
But then several characters started discussing rape and how if a young woman is sexually active she can't be raped. Because obviously if a woman has sex with a guy that means she wants have sex with every guy all the time. I kept reading because I thought one of these guys might be the murder, but then other characters, including the detective, make comments about how hard it must be to rape someone and therefore the woman must usually want it and a female character says to her date that he could rape her everyday. ?????? This was written in 1975. A lot of the reviews make comments about it reflecting the time period but that is hard for me to believe. My mom was in high school in 75 and I can't see that attitude flying when she was a teenager. Maybe England was really behind America in terms of sexism but it is hard to believe this wasn't written in 55 or earlier. Then again it's not like there aren't some people with similar attitudes even today.
I was close to the end at that point and finished because I wanted to know who the murderer was, but it ended up being really convoluted and didn't really make sense. Not worth it.
But then several characters started discussing rape and how if a young woman is sexually active she can't be raped. Because obviously if a woman has sex with a guy that means she wants have sex with every guy all the time. I kept reading because I thought one of these guys might be the murder, but then other characters, including the detective, make comments about how hard it must be to rape someone and therefore the woman must usually want it and a female character says to her date that he could rape her everyday. ?????? This was written in 1975. A lot of the reviews make comments about it reflecting the time period but that is hard for me to believe. My mom was in high school in 75 and I can't see that attitude flying when she was a teenager. Maybe England was really behind America in terms of sexism but it is hard to believe this wasn't written in 55 or earlier. Then again it's not like there aren't some people with similar attitudes even today.
I was close to the end at that point and finished because I wanted to know who the murderer was, but it ended up being really convoluted and didn't really make sense. Not worth it.