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A review by brittnilurvesberks
Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates
5.0
Something is very weird with trying to rate and even find this book on Goodreads. I had to go by the ISBN number and even then it wouldn’t let me rate it or mark it as read. I’m on my phone right now so this review will be short but worshipful.
This book is extraordinary. Divine. It should be studied in classes. It a chimera, a changeling, a magical, beautiful, dangerous thing that mesmerizes and hypnotizes with every page. I don’t even know what to do with myself now, bereft of its presence. This book is ALIVE. You can feel it breathing and staring back at you as you read. You think this book is about Marilyn going in, but it’s about so much more. Oates is not kind in her depiction of men in this book, but all you have to do is go to the comments section of a young, beautiful YouTuber or TikToker to see it is still a scathingly accurate depiction. Aside from Cass and Eddy G. you’d even be hard pressed to find the men of Norma Jeanne’s short, robbed life fully named in this 700+ page tribunal of their atrocities toward all women, but this one deeply tragic woman in particular.
Read it. For the love of god, read it. I need somebody to be astounded with.
This book is extraordinary. Divine. It should be studied in classes. It a chimera, a changeling, a magical, beautiful, dangerous thing that mesmerizes and hypnotizes with every page. I don’t even know what to do with myself now, bereft of its presence. This book is ALIVE. You can feel it breathing and staring back at you as you read. You think this book is about Marilyn going in, but it’s about so much more. Oates is not kind in her depiction of men in this book, but all you have to do is go to the comments section of a young, beautiful YouTuber or TikToker to see it is still a scathingly accurate depiction. Aside from Cass and Eddy G. you’d even be hard pressed to find the men of Norma Jeanne’s short, robbed life fully named in this 700+ page tribunal of their atrocities toward all women, but this one deeply tragic woman in particular.
Read it. For the love of god, read it. I need somebody to be astounded with.