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Chris Covill (no login)
Posted Mar 13, 2007 2:36 PM
I just finished reading this book and I am somewhat disappointed by the whole lay out. I think that at best this is a real unoriginal idea for a book. I think the grieving widow in this book is somewhat twisted for her outlook. Really, because your husband was killed directly or indirectly at the hands of terrorists, you feel the urge to bed down with the enemy? What was the point? Was it for therapy? I mean I am sitting here now looking at this book right now and wondering what if any educational value this book has? This whole book was lame and at best it was a story for 13-year-old girls. I guess the question raised if any, is maybe a moral question at best. As I was reading this I just thought more of how psychologically twisted this whole thing was. I agree with Lauren that this book is more like the ones we talked about in one of our first classes earlier in the semester, (Baudrillard, Virilio and Zizek the attraction for violence and horror and sadomasochism). I believe as Americans we have a fascination with violence that has taken a center stage in our lives and society. I believe that this theme we were discussing with the other events of 9/11 is somewhat unique to Americans. People were attracted to the horror of the images of the Event with gratititious violence. The widow and the Muslim man, or dark skinned man whatever he is, engage in sex. I mean was this supposed to be "hate sex" or some kind of "angry sex"? The woman depicted in this book sounds more mentally ill with her fascination for violence and relating it to her personal situations. This was really a bad book hidden in 15 chapters of sex talk with minimal relevance to 9/11-I feel and at best a smutty sex story for teenage kids.
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