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Disclosure by Michael Crichton
Did not finish book. Stopped at 26%.
I wanted to DNF this at page 7, but I was unfortunately stuck at work with nothing else to read so I was forced to read this until I got home. I should have just suffered with nothing to read.
At first, it was just boring. I don't want to waste time reading a book I'm not enjoying. And then I kept reading, and I went from just bored to bored and slowly growing more angry with every page. I didn't even hate Game of Thrones this much, and my review for that disgrace of a book is basically an essay.
The misogyny was disgusting. I'm aware the book is 30 years old and its obvious because it did not age well at all, but you don't have to have every single male character bitching about women in the workforce on every page. And that's ignoring the sexist "jokes" and comments (that were just as abundant as the bitching) and also the racist "jokes" and comments that were peppered throughout as well.
We also were given an extremely old man who's just oh-so eccentric and quirky. He's so smart he talks in circles and riddles and thinks it's funny to get under people's skin instead of just answering their questions. Oh and let's not forget about his disgustingly sexist and misogynistic comments and actions towards women "because he's just such an old man, what do you expect."
The characters weren't even the only ones being misogynistic. The author decided that every woman he gives a few lines of dialogue to is stereotypically so intense about her career that nothing else - NOT EVEN A CANCER DIAGNOSIS??? - matters to them. Not a single day taken off of work for cancer? And magically it's gone now? Shut the fuck up. And if the women weren't "hard as ice," they were just a pretty face for the receptionist.
Along with every single man complaining about women in the workforce, you have the same women who are so intense about their careers they'll never take a day off work for a medical crisis bitching and complaining about misogyny and accusing everyone of being sexist and misogynistic and throwing a fit over fucking pinup posters? Again, shut the fuck up. It's so dramatic for absolutely no reason.
The only woman who wasn't so intense about her job was Meredith, and that's only because the lovely author decided that SHE would be the only person in the book with a career to have slept around in order to get her position. Which then led into an ALMOST SIX PAGE rape scene? Why do we need 6 pages for that? I read the first two and had to skip the rest because it was disgusting, pointlessly long, and so overdramatic that it was almost laughable.
And then the author had the audacity to not have Tom get mad because he was being sexually assaulted, oh no. It was "male fury." Because "men can't be pinned down and dominated by a mere woman, oh that's so disgraceful, I must get angry and dominate." And then he proceeds ro take it out on his wife and scream about how she isnt oppressed because she doesn't sweep the floor? Shut the fuck up.
I want to rip this book to pieces and burn them.
At first, it was just boring. I don't want to waste time reading a book I'm not enjoying. And then I kept reading, and I went from just bored to bored and slowly growing more angry with every page. I didn't even hate Game of Thrones this much, and my review for that disgrace of a book is basically an essay.
The misogyny was disgusting. I'm aware the book is 30 years old and its obvious because it did not age well at all, but you don't have to have every single male character bitching about women in the workforce on every page. And that's ignoring the sexist "jokes" and comments (that were just as abundant as the bitching) and also the racist "jokes" and comments that were peppered throughout as well.
We also were given an extremely old man who's just oh-so eccentric and quirky. He's so smart he talks in circles and riddles and thinks it's funny to get under people's skin instead of just answering their questions. Oh and let's not forget about his disgustingly sexist and misogynistic comments and actions towards women "because he's just such an old man, what do you expect."
The characters weren't even the only ones being misogynistic. The author decided that every woman he gives a few lines of dialogue to is stereotypically so intense about her career that nothing else - NOT EVEN A CANCER DIAGNOSIS??? - matters to them. Not a single day taken off of work for cancer? And magically it's gone now? Shut the fuck up. And if the women weren't "hard as ice," they were just a pretty face for the receptionist.
Along with every single man complaining about women in the workforce, you have the same women who are so intense about their careers they'll never take a day off work for a medical crisis bitching and complaining about misogyny and accusing everyone of being sexist and misogynistic and throwing a fit over fucking pinup posters? Again, shut the fuck up. It's so dramatic for absolutely no reason.
The only woman who wasn't so intense about her job was Meredith, and that's only because the lovely author decided that SHE would be the only person in the book with a career to have slept around in order to get her position. Which then led into an ALMOST SIX PAGE rape scene? Why do we need 6 pages for that? I read the first two and had to skip the rest because it was disgusting, pointlessly long, and so overdramatic that it was almost laughable.
And then the author had the audacity to not have Tom get mad because he was being sexually assaulted, oh no. It was "male fury." Because "men can't be pinned down and dominated by a mere woman, oh that's so disgraceful, I must get angry and dominate." And then he proceeds ro take it out on his wife and scream about how she isnt oppressed because she doesn't sweep the floor? Shut the fuck up.
I want to rip this book to pieces and burn them.