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One word: AmazingI read this book on a whim since it was on the Bestseller list. I knew absolutely nothing about it and hadn't read any reviews. I fell in love with it from the first chapter. I loved the language of the book and how she told the story. I joined the plot and felt a part of the story, I laughed and cried with the maid's tales. Coming from someone who has never enjoyed the classic eccentricity of African American fiction (such as Toni Morrison, etc.), this book could bridge that gap between genres. It was heart-touching and truthful. I never wanted it to end. You'll find yourself cheering for Skeeter and all of the maids who contributed to Help. This is a must read!
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Surprisingly GoodEveryone I knew was reading "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo". None of them could put it down. They devoured it. I was intrigued by the spell this author cast on these readers. What's his secret? I had to know.
So I read it myself. Surprisingly, I couldn't seem to get into it until about the 200-page mark. And, no, not because he spends a lavish amount of time on the legal troubles of the magazine and the perils of financial journalism. (I rather enjoyed that part.) I just found all the principal characters . . . well, unlikeable. Lisabeth Salander is anti-social at face-value. The writer presents her as hard-to-like. (So I don't count that against the novel.) But Mikael Blomkvist, the main character--the man through whose eyes we experience the story--is an unscrupulous scoundrel. He sleeps with another man's wife, immediately cheats on her with an older woman, and then--for no reason whatsoever--sleeps with Salander (a rape victim, young enough to be his daughter). He's an exceptionally sleazy guy with absolutely no conscience--so it's particularly grating when he hypocritically rants on about morality when it comes to the financier Wennerstrom. Likewise with his soapbox (and paternalistic) preaching about violence-against-women.
The guy is as amoral as they come, yet he demands morality from others, without the slightest moment of cognitive dissonance (or self-awareness) on his part.
Additionally, Larsson makes rookie mistakes as a writer when he takes things too far. Like when he cheesily makes Salander have a "photographic memory". Anyone conversant with the subject knows that only about 3 people in all history have had a documented "photographic memory". It's extraordinarily rare. So when he gives the attribute to Salander, it just comes off as silly. (We already liked her at that point. So he should have left well-enough alone. But he threw in that cheese, and added a blemish to an otherwise wonderful character.) Likewise when he has her mention her habit of finishing equations in astrophysics (after dozens of references throughout the book where people assume she's mentally disabled). We get that she has a mind. You don't have to throw in embarrassing stuff like "astrophysics". Reminded me of an axiom from film-making. When a famous director saw a ham over-acting, he'd simply say "Less!"
At those moments when Larsson did that, I felt like saying, "Less!"
But this is all mere quibbling. The story itself is wonderful, gripping and fresh. (I just wish I liked Blomkvist more and didn't find him to be such an obnoxious moral hypocrite and self-righteous prig.)
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Awesome!I ordered The Kind Diet by Alicia Silverstone through Amazon.com and not only did I get a bargain on the price, I got it delivered to my door in under 10 days! I am over-the-moon happy with my purchase, thank you Amazon and thank you to Alicia Silverstone, The Kind Diet is fantastic and my life is changing for the better. I love it!!
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cautionI always read customer reviews before purchasing a book, and when I ordered this one the reviews were all 5 star. I thought this book was going to change my life! I was very disappointed....
First, as with many "self-help" books, the author takes about 10 pages to say what could have been said in 1 page. After all, self-help "magazines" don't sell and make money--you have to stretch your material out into book format. I found myself reading the same information over, and over, and over again.
Second, I found some of the advice to be a little impractical. I purchased this book because I'm having a difficult time getting motivated to lose weight. I know I need to eat right and exercise, but I'm just so tired and feel so blah that I just haven't been able to do it. So Dr. Amen's premise appealed to me--it's not my lack of willpower, it's a problem in my brain. If I just follow his advice, my brain will be "fixed" and I'll be eating all the right foods, in the right amounts, and working out like crazy. Well, a large part of his advice is to eat right and exercise. Not how to get there, just to do it and my brain will start getting "fixed." Hmmmm.....
Third, Dr. Amen suggests a number of supplements that will help brain function. Upon researching some of these supplements, I find that many have not been approved by the FDA. Some have been linked to rather serious side effects, and other medical experts caution that they should not be taken without further research. Personally, I don't want to be a guinea pig. Unless there is overwhelming support from the medical community that indicates a supplement is safe to ingest, I'm not going to put it into my body.
I feel this book was a complete waste of my time and money because I didn't learn a thing. If you don't already know that lack of exercise, poor diet, and negative thinking has a negative effect on your brain, then you could probably benefit from this book. But if you know those things, just not how to implement them, you may want to look elsewhere.
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Jodi Picoult does not understand Asperger's SyndromeJodie Picoult's image of an adult with Asperger's inaccurate and offensive. I and some other adults with Asperger's I know are not good at understanding what other people are thinking or feeling unless we are told directly. But we have feelings and we care about others, at least as much as neurotypicals [i.e., people without Asperger's].
A character in Picoult's novel says, "lack of empathy simply means someone is cold, heartless, without remorse." This is the definition of Asperger's Picoult uses, and it is central to her plot. But this definition is wrong. What she is talking about here is lack of sympathy: an inability to feel hurt when others are hurt; a lack of desire to help others when they need help. What she is describing is somebody without a conscience: a sociopath. What she is NOT describing, at least not accurately, is somebody with Asperger's.
I may not read people correctly and may sometimes act in ways that are inappropriate, but I care about others and try to do good as much as anybody without Asperger's. I just need things explained to me more than others do.
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