Gemma Vagaggini’s Reviews > Straniero in terra straniera > Status Update

Less than 200 pages left. Yhey, can't wait to finish this book because I don't like it anymore, to be honest.

I need to stop reading books written by old men that just want to tell you how the word and life work.

The discussion on the reason for laughing, I kind of liked it. It was interesting.

Osannano troppo questo libro. Decisamente da evitare, anche se è comunque un' esperienza, di merda, ma vale o stesso. Almeno credo (o meglio spero, perché se no ho sprecato un mese e mezzo per leggere un mucchio di pagine di merda scritte da un autore coglione e stronzo, ma non sono per nulla arrabbiata, no assolutamente.) Dio benedica il sarcasmo.

When I say that it is so obvious that a man wrote this book I mean it, like why would someone write women horny for a random man and act so useless, apart from having sex with male characters or serving him in any way he wants. Females are written so petite, needy of help and begging for the male gaze. This makes the book so hard to read for me. So yeah, pretty shitty for now. Thanks for nothing, Robert.

A good thing is that it is obviously a book written in the 60's, both in good and in bad ways. The female characters are so discussing in a male-wenting way. They are extremely objectified and mistreated. I don't know if this was done by the author on purpose to highlight how shitty society was in the 60's in America, but I doubt so.