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A review by cryptidgenderman
He, She and It by Marge Piercy
1.0
in total, this took me six days to read. it must’ve been the longest six days of my entire life. I never write reviews on Goodreads, but this is just too long for my book journal. The only reason I managed to get all the way through was just for me to know that I read it all the way and I still hated it. I never rate books 1 star because I am afraid to say that I’ve wasted my money or my time, but this book deserves it. this has such an interesting plot and it could’ve gone so far with it, but it just didn’t which is probably the most disappointing thing.
It should not take a book 300+ pages for it to finally catch my interest. And of course by interesting, I don’t mean captivating I mean, somewhat rememberable of which there were five scenes in total. when it wasn’t being rememberable, It was being problematic and if it wasn’t being problematic, It was being confusing.
I have read the 557 pages of this book, and I still have no idea how this world works or What it’s like. All I know is that the multiple mentions of the failed experiment being referred to as autistic didn’t sit right with me. another thing that answer right with me was the way that she writes women. Apparently she supposed to be this feminist writer, but personally I found the world as she’s created is so sexist.
The characters were annoying as hell, and not to mention that one of them was a whole ass paedophile. The writing was not good and if it weren’t for my reading goal, I would not have read this in 1 million years/would’ve DNF’d it after page 1. You would not catch me, remembering what the hell even happened in the book. And I personally love POV chapters but Malhaz did not deserve her own chapters. They were useless and Joseph story didn’t make any sense.
this is obviously not to defer anyone from reading it but personally I’m throwing this off my bookshelf as soon as I can .
It should not take a book 300+ pages for it to finally catch my interest. And of course by interesting, I don’t mean captivating I mean, somewhat rememberable of which there were five scenes in total. when it wasn’t being rememberable, It was being problematic and if it wasn’t being problematic, It was being confusing.
I have read the 557 pages of this book, and I still have no idea how this world works or What it’s like. All I know is that the multiple mentions of the failed experiment being referred to as autistic didn’t sit right with me. another thing that answer right with me was the way that she writes women. Apparently she supposed to be this feminist writer, but personally I found the world as she’s created is so sexist.
The characters were annoying as hell, and not to mention that one of them was a whole ass paedophile. The writing was not good and if it weren’t for my reading goal, I would not have read this in 1 million years/would’ve DNF’d it after page 1. You would not catch me, remembering what the hell even happened in the book. And I personally love POV chapters but Malhaz did not deserve her own chapters. They were useless and Joseph story didn’t make any sense.
this is obviously not to defer anyone from reading it but personally I’m throwing this off my bookshelf as soon as I can .