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A review by kyngret
The Selfishness of Others: An Essay on the Fear of Narcissism by Kristin Dombek
4.0
I read this as a recommendation from a friend, and was *super* skeptical at first when I began. I hesitate on how much I want to comment about it, given there's much more going on than what one may expect at first glance and I don't want to spoil it. So I suppose mild spoilers from this point on?
It seemed to have all the hallmarks of one big rant against the kids-these-days-Millennials (a group of which I am smack-dab in the middle, having been born in 1989), and I am so sick of that rhetoric I nearly didn't continue past the first chapter. However, I am SO GLAD I gave it a chance and read all the way to the end. It is so much more than that and actually changed my perspective on some matters (aptly, the part on one's perspective vs. another's).
One anecdote I wish to add, I couldn't help but laugh during the "Murderer" chapter. I have a friend who is a therapist at a prison and she says that, in her experience, the murderers are actually some of the nicest people she deals with. Of course those are the second-degree "crimes of passion" murderers, not so much the big famous first-degree murderers who love the attention and notoriety as is mentioned in the book.
It seemed to have all the hallmarks of one big rant against the kids-these-days-Millennials (a group of which I am smack-dab in the middle, having been born in 1989), and I am so sick of that rhetoric I nearly didn't continue past the first chapter. However, I am SO GLAD I gave it a chance and read all the way to the end. It is so much more than that and actually changed my perspective on some matters (aptly, the part on one's perspective vs. another's).
One anecdote I wish to add, I couldn't help but laugh during the "Murderer" chapter. I have a friend who is a therapist at a prison and she says that, in her experience, the murderers are actually some of the nicest people she deals with. Of course those are the second-degree "crimes of passion" murderers, not so much the big famous first-degree murderers who love the attention and notoriety as is mentioned in the book.