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A review by saramg
The Third Twin by Ken Follett
1.0
This book has reached the level of being offensive.
Jeannie Ferami is a researcher who gains access to medical databases, searches them to find identical twins who don't know they have a twin, then she accesses their address/phone number and invites them to participate in her research. She then informs them that they have an identical twin. She swears up and down that this is not an invasion of privacy or a breach of ethics. Case in point, her very first subject had no idea he was a twin, his parents swear they had a single child. I can't even fathom how she is not freaking out about this massive breach of privacy that she has just perpetrated.
Second - Jeannie's "best friend" is brutally raped. The victim identifies Jeannie's research subject (the one that didn't know he had a twin) as the perpetrator. She looked the guy directly in the face while he was raping her. What does Jeannie do? Tell her "friend" that she is wrong and that she is certain that this guy is not the rapist because she "has a feeling" about it. Fuck you Jeannie.
So all that was annoying and made me mad. But I just came up on a part that has me so seething I want to throw something heavy at the author of this book. Stupid Jeannie is going to have her work shut down due to her ethics violations (which she still thinks don't exist) and her "best friend" asks her what she will study if she can't keep invading people's private medical records and revealing their family secrets. Jeannie then starts explaining that since her "friend" Lisa (who is two days out from being savagely raped) is "just a technician" that she couldn't possibly understand the scientific passion that Jeannie has . To Lisa it's "just another project". Okay fuck you again Jeannie. Get off your high horse that is currently trotting along the plains of privilege land. Jeannie is a highly educated person, who obviously is passionate about science because she made it her career. Guess what? People aren't stupid idiots just because they didn't pay for a PhD. I am so disgusted by this woman and her non-existent ethics and her superiority complex.
The thing that bugs me is not the fact that she's a shitty character. It's that this is our protagonist. We are supposed to identify with her and support her. Please someone tell me that in the end of the book Lisa is vindicated. I am not sure I can continue reading after this latest insult to lab technicians everywhere. (Yes I was a lab tech for 10 years and no I wasn't a lab tech because I was too stupid or didn't like science enough to get my PhD.) If I worked with Jeannie Ferami, I would pour a giant bowl of Cream of Potato soup over her head right now. Then I'd tell her what a nasty witch she is. Then I'd call the paper and explain in detail all of her ethics violations.
Jeannie Ferami is a researcher who gains access to medical databases, searches them to find identical twins who don't know they have a twin, then she accesses their address/phone number and invites them to participate in her research. She then informs them that they have an identical twin. She swears up and down that this is not an invasion of privacy or a breach of ethics. Case in point, her very first subject had no idea he was a twin, his parents swear they had a single child. I can't even fathom how she is not freaking out about this massive breach of privacy that she has just perpetrated.
Second - Jeannie's "best friend" is brutally raped. The victim identifies Jeannie's research subject (the one that didn't know he had a twin) as the perpetrator. She looked the guy directly in the face while he was raping her. What does Jeannie do? Tell her "friend" that she is wrong and that she is certain that this guy is not the rapist because she "has a feeling" about it. Fuck you Jeannie.
So all that was annoying and made me mad. But I just came up on a part that has me so seething I want to throw something heavy at the author of this book. Stupid Jeannie is going to have her work shut down due to her ethics violations (which she still thinks don't exist) and her "best friend" asks her what she will study if she can't keep invading people's private medical records and revealing their family secrets. Jeannie then starts explaining that since her "friend" Lisa (who is two days out from being savagely raped) is "just a technician" that she couldn't possibly understand the scientific passion that Jeannie has . To Lisa it's "just another project". Okay fuck you again Jeannie. Get off your high horse that is currently trotting along the plains of privilege land. Jeannie is a highly educated person, who obviously is passionate about science because she made it her career. Guess what? People aren't stupid idiots just because they didn't pay for a PhD. I am so disgusted by this woman and her non-existent ethics and her superiority complex.
The thing that bugs me is not the fact that she's a shitty character. It's that this is our protagonist. We are supposed to identify with her and support her. Please someone tell me that in the end of the book Lisa is vindicated. I am not sure I can continue reading after this latest insult to lab technicians everywhere. (Yes I was a lab tech for 10 years and no I wasn't a lab tech because I was too stupid or didn't like science enough to get my PhD.) If I worked with Jeannie Ferami, I would pour a giant bowl of Cream of Potato soup over her head right now. Then I'd tell her what a nasty witch she is. Then I'd call the paper and explain in detail all of her ethics violations.