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jaide_monroe 's review for:
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream
by Harlan Ellison
Other reviews have warned me of the abhorrent and unbearable misogyny that this story holds, and I’ll be the first to say: bullshit.
Yes, there is misogyny, and it is never okay, but that’s the point. You’re not meant to like the main character; he’s crazed, out of his mind from being tortured for a century. In fact, no one in this story is meant to be likable.
For the record, the crude comments made against a woman was part of a stream-of-consciousness to show that the main character was out of his mind.
And I’m surprised at how little misogyny I encountered in this book, because mainstream romance books (written specifically for and by women) have ungodly amounts of women-hating diatribes peppered through their stories.
All of that said, I rated this so low partly because it was so short and so I wasn’t invested in the characters, and partly because I listened to it. I’m beginning to learn that I hate audiobooks.
Yes, there is misogyny, and it is never okay, but that’s the point. You’re not meant to like the main character; he’s crazed, out of his mind from being tortured for a century. In fact, no one in this story is meant to be likable.
For the record, the crude comments made against a woman was part of a stream-of-consciousness to show that the main character was out of his mind.
And I’m surprised at how little misogyny I encountered in this book, because mainstream romance books (written specifically for and by women) have ungodly amounts of women-hating diatribes peppered through their stories.
All of that said, I rated this so low partly because it was so short and so I wasn’t invested in the characters, and partly because I listened to it. I’m beginning to learn that I hate audiobooks.