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A review by jessicah95
Dragonfish by Vu Tran
Did not finish book.
Not sure if the protagonist is supposed to come across as a hateful sexist and we're meant to dislike him, or if the author has written a misogynistic wanker and isn't aware of it. Read over 50 pages and wasn't intrigued enough to find this out. Here are a few quotes that made me mad:
'I found I loved her most when she was sick and had no choice but to let me take care of her...keep her housebound'
'Her real name was Hong... But it sounded a bit piggish the way Americans pronounced it, so I suggested the name of my first girlfriend in high school, and this she did give me'
'Then we'd make love and she would whimper, a childlike thing a lot of Asian women do, except hers sounded more like a wounded animal's'
At one point he also slaps his wife twice, then punches her in the mouth and then says 'She'd never been as tough as I thought, and now I was the bad guy.' - Yes you are, asswipe.
And all this just 50 pages in. What a treat, right?
The writing isn't anything special either, and clearly the characters aren't enough to keep me reading, so I'm sorry Vu Tran. If you aren't a misogynist and just enjoy crafting horrid male characters, I apologise!
'I found I loved her most when she was sick and had no choice but to let me take care of her...keep her housebound'
'Her real name was Hong... But it sounded a bit piggish the way Americans pronounced it, so I suggested the name of my first girlfriend in high school, and this she did give me'
'Then we'd make love and she would whimper, a childlike thing a lot of Asian women do, except hers sounded more like a wounded animal's'
At one point he also slaps his wife twice, then punches her in the mouth and then says 'She'd never been as tough as I thought, and now I was the bad guy.' - Yes you are, asswipe.
And all this just 50 pages in. What a treat, right?
The writing isn't anything special either, and clearly the characters aren't enough to keep me reading, so I'm sorry Vu Tran. If you aren't a misogynist and just enjoy crafting horrid male characters, I apologise!