3.5 stars.
I just felt nauseous and unsettled while reading chapter two. The narrative was too intense. Everything felt real, they weren’t just made up, they had happened in the real world, very close to us.
In this book, Eugene Chen captures various modern male archetypes — the mama’s boy, the man with fragile pride, the mansplainer, the gaslighter. And the terrifying part is that she exposes the truth of marriage and the reality for women within it.
I like the book, it’s very easy to read, but the ideas and emotions in it are hard to digest.
還讀不完第二篇,我開始有股噁心反胃的感覺,故事太可怕了,我開始尋找這究竟是小說還是散文作品,翻了又翻希望找到「純屬虛構」的字樣,但一切都好可怕,都是真實,我心裡知道這些鬼故事真實世界都發生過,離我們很近。
鬼故事不可怕,因為人比鬼可怕。《我有結婚病》寫遍現代男性百態— 媽寶男、自尊男、說教男、煤氣燈男,百鬼夜行,無一缺席,看得一肚子火。而最最駭人的是,撥開婚姻外皮之後,見到了最醜陋的樣貌。
剛好搭上鬼鬼去父留子和各種結婚鬼故事的議題,這本書來的正是時候。
我有結婚病,想到結婚就生病。