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Originally Posted by Belfaborac
I can't say the term misogyny ever occurred to me while reading any of his books.
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Perhaps misogynistic is too strong a word and probably even the wrong word in regards to the author. But when I read The Real Story, I couldn't help feeling that i was subjected to one man's utter depravity against one woman, and for no other reason than the writer wanted it that way. An entire book filled with constant rape and physical abuse...I felt similarly when I read Stieg Larsen's Men Who Hate Women (translated into the much softer and slicker sounding The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo), and i found myself wondering is this the author making a thematic point about how our culture allows men to thoroughly objectify women to the point where they become nothing more than objects of not only of desire...or was i seeing something dark seeping out of the unconscious mind of the writer. Perhaps a combination of both. Who can say for sure, i suppose.
As a writer myself, I can't help but notice certain recurring themes and elements appear throughout my work whether i like it or not, and which inevitably become part of the DNA of the book itself, like the cement between the bricks, or the nail in the coffin, and you can't remove it without the whole thing coming apart.