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zebrakat 's review for:
Among Friends
by Hal Ebbott
DID NOT FINISH: 10%
The writing style repulsed me. This reads like someone just picked random words out of a hat or just disjointed phrases.
Some examples of the absolutely bizarre sentences:
“They were standing in the kitchen, the women.”
“A basin sink, porcelain, deep enough to wash fruit.”
I could pick many more. There’s a strange structure to practically every sentence which dilutes any meaning.
I might have pushed on past the writing style but then came blatant misogyny.
In a conversation between the two wives in the story, we come to a point that seems to be the opposite of passing the bechdel test. Implying there’s nothing women could really have a conversation about if not a man.
“Yes, this man. They both knew him; about him they could speak.”
It’s so weird that these two wives supposedly long term friends through their husbands and with daughters of a similar age are struggling to come up with anything to talk about.
Also why the fuck is this woman proud about firing someone? And thinks first that might be a conversation topic before decided no, the only thing two women can talk about is men.
If that was bad enough we go to imply that the only purpose of women is children.
On the subject of her daughter, the one wife thinks, “because they existed, she made sense.”
And to continue the theme, why not go on and just say that women are stupid and not great at stem.
By immediately having the daughter say “I’m bad at math” when asked about school.
The daughters go on to have a conversation at school taking about you guessed it, boys.
I also think this going to be a story that turns close male friendship into a gay romance which I think is a harmful stereotype.
I didn’t get far in but this might be the worst thing I read this year.
Some examples of the absolutely bizarre sentences:
“They were standing in the kitchen, the women.”
“A basin sink, porcelain, deep enough to wash fruit.”
I could pick many more. There’s a strange structure to practically every sentence which dilutes any meaning.
I might have pushed on past the writing style but then came blatant misogyny.
In a conversation between the two wives in the story, we come to a point that seems to be the opposite of passing the bechdel test. Implying there’s nothing women could really have a conversation about if not a man.
“Yes, this man. They both knew him; about him they could speak.”
It’s so weird that these two wives supposedly long term friends through their husbands and with daughters of a similar age are struggling to come up with anything to talk about.
Also why the fuck is this woman proud about firing someone? And thinks first that might be a conversation topic before decided no, the only thing two women can talk about is men.
If that was bad enough we go to imply that the only purpose of women is children.
On the subject of her daughter, the one wife thinks, “because they existed, she made sense.”
And to continue the theme, why not go on and just say that women are stupid and not great at stem.
By immediately having the daughter say “I’m bad at math” when asked about school.
The daughters go on to have a conversation at school taking about you guessed it, boys.
I also think this going to be a story that turns close male friendship into a gay romance which I think is a harmful stereotype.
I didn’t get far in but this might be the worst thing I read this year.