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It's interesting that the author is into erotic asphyxiation because by the end of this book I was longing to wrap my fingers around her neck. Lord. This woman is so unbearably full of shit. The chapters on her religious devotion were particularly exhausting. Yes. Our dear sociopathic author is a devout Sunday school teaching Mormon whose most cherished hobby is "ruining people." And yet she somehow manages to reconcile her deep commitment to the Mormon faith along with her raging caffeine addiction, penchant for violence and fascination with sexually manipulating others. Of course I would expect nothing less from an sociopath. Incredible selfishness, unchecked megalomania and outrageous pathologic lying are hallmarks this personality type and M.E. Thomas represents herself accordingly.
In spite of my distate for the narrator, I found the subject material fascinating. I liked considering the assumptions challenged by M.E. Thomas - in particular the ideas on whether guilt and remorse are inherently good or even useful. I'm a hardcore empath and therefore didn't see much of myself in the author. But I found myself actually admiring some of her sociopathic traits that I would find helpful: her ability to make decisions not based on emotions, her freedom from fear, negativity, phobias and neuroses and her unabashed shamelessness. I am so ruled by these things sometimes, I could understand her side of the argument that being motivated by empathy is not necessarily a positive trait.
I would recommend this book, but prepare to be worn out by the end of it - by M.E. Thomas's special brand of crazy, her intense self absorption and her punishing redundancy.
In spite of my distate for the narrator, I found the subject material fascinating. I liked considering the assumptions challenged by M.E. Thomas - in particular the ideas on whether guilt and remorse are inherently good or even useful. I'm a hardcore empath and therefore didn't see much of myself in the author. But I found myself actually admiring some of her sociopathic traits that I would find helpful: her ability to make decisions not based on emotions, her freedom from fear, negativity, phobias and neuroses and her unabashed shamelessness. I am so ruled by these things sometimes, I could understand her side of the argument that being motivated by empathy is not necessarily a positive trait.
I would recommend this book, but prepare to be worn out by the end of it - by M.E. Thomas's special brand of crazy, her intense self absorption and her punishing redundancy.