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frogggirl2 's review for:
Small Wonder
by Barbara Kingsolver
This was not the book I thought I was going into. I found it polarizing; while there were some parts which were okay and a few parts that were beautiful, I was mostly bored, annoyed or angry reading this.
I found the huge sections extolling nature unending and quite tedious. I also disagree that we need to revert to some sort of agrarian hellscape to survive as a species (why is this never the future horror in postapocalyptica?). Gratingly, she advocates growing your own vegetables, locally sourcing everything, making your own cheese/butter, having chickens, not watching TV or having a cell phone. She unintelligently and harmfully blames video games and movies for the Columbine school shooting (harmful since she fails to address the actual problems: bullying, lack of mental health treatment and guns which actually caused the violence). Her propensity for throwing away terms like Holocaust and ethnic cleansing is offensive and undermines the validity of the points she's trying to make.
The parts of this I liked (and those I really liked) are mostly the parts about raising a daughter, being a daughter, how she was raised and feminism.
I found the huge sections extolling nature unending and quite tedious. I also disagree that we need to revert to some sort of agrarian hellscape to survive as a species (why is this never the future horror in postapocalyptica?). Gratingly, she advocates growing your own vegetables, locally sourcing everything, making your own cheese/butter, having chickens, not watching TV or having a cell phone. She unintelligently and harmfully blames video games and movies for the Columbine school shooting (harmful since she fails to address the actual problems: bullying, lack of mental health treatment and guns which actually caused the violence). Her propensity for throwing away terms like Holocaust and ethnic cleansing is offensive and undermines the validity of the points she's trying to make.
The parts of this I liked (and those I really liked) are mostly the parts about raising a daughter, being a daughter, how she was raised and feminism.