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Originally Posted by caleb72
Now, my next book needs a drum roll.................
For the first time this year I'm actually reading a non-fiction book! Yep, it happened. I've picked up Sybil Exposed by Debbie Nathan from my library. It's a book looking at the story behind the famous Multiple Personality case which became the book Sybil and later, a movie of the same name.
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Phew! Finally finished that one.
This was an interesting book, especially as I didn't know much about the facts behind this case. My issue with it was that the author was so contemptuous of the perpetrators of this alleged hoax that her writing drips with her disapproval. I very rarely trust informative writing that exposes such a bias as I think analysis becomes clouded with the introduction of emotion. Having said that, the whole Sybil case seems to be a case of scientific theories masquerading as facts and capturing a public's imagination to serious detrimental effect; a pretty sobering lesson, which I don't think we ever learn.
I'm in the last stages of
The Satanic Verses at the moment and I'm really enjoying it. I'll complete this novel before I continue on with anything else.