This book starts out well enough. In the early chapters, Garber makes some points that I nodded along with. However, she runs out of anything interesting to say a few chapters in, and from that point draws on her experience as an English professor by going into mind-numbing literary analysis: this is what Tiresias did, this is what Freud said, this is what a novel no one's ever read talks about. It becomes excruciating to read, and it really makes no sense why it's there. The book would be a lot better, in my opinion, if it only comprised of the first quarter. ( )

Sometimes hugely theoretical, but fascinating and entertaining nonetheles. ( )