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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. I picked this up randomly at a book store where it was on a "recommendations" shelf, and I couldn't put it down. It was so disturbing but also different from what I expected. I can't imagine what it was like to write this book. Some commenters seem to think it was badly written, but I thought she was a great writer and I'm sure has other published works out there somewhere, under her own name. Weird to think she could be anyone. ( ) well, this was an unfortunate read. Was difficult to comprehend. I feel like the intent was to highlight how sick the situation was as well as her mental health as a result. I generally like to read stories about human triumph and over coming adversity but that wasn't the case here. I think her willingness to succumb to the sickness makes this a very sad story outside of the terrible abuse she endured. So what to make of this book? Maybe the first question is why read something like this? Maybe to understand what goes on in ones mind surrounding it. Not sure that can be found here. There are I think two ways to take what she wrote. One being to see the destruction it wreaks upon the life of the victim. The other nothing more than a pornographic put on to the reader. This anonymous writer if you believe the truth of what happened to her is torn it seems between the deep seated horror of living with a predator father and the prurient desire for that father. It becomes a twisted mess reading it and trying to decipher without much to really take away from it. Clearly this guy should have spent most of his life behind bars for what he did, yet doesn't and ends up possessing his daughters mind and body for life. Certainly feeling of sympathy for her plight is felt throughout yet as she repeatedly interjects the pleasure it brought her it leaves one confused. The style is readable and seems almost professional, reminded for some reason of Sylvia Plath. It certainly is never boring but left me feeling like I was the voyeur taken in by a tale of confusing twistedness. And maybe that was the point behind this book. no reviews | add a review
An extraordinary, powerful and beautifully written memoir of a daughter's abuse by, and attachment to, her father.Throughout her childhood and adolescence, the anonymous author of The Incest Diary was raped by her father. Beneath a veneer of normal family life, she grew up in and around this all-encompassing secret. No library descriptions found. |
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