So I got this book lying around with some old books which I took out recently from the packed boxes. I didn't even know the author when I started reading it, and went ahead for the sole reason of the title of this book. Of course, the book being only 114 pages on a small size paper in a big type was also a reason, and I completed the book in 2 hours flat in 2 days.
While reading the book I got curious about the author, and found some interesting details about her. Her novels actually far exceeded in sale to her contemporary authors which count Arthur Conan Doyle, H. G. Wells, and Rudyard Kipling all put together. This was some serious news for me, and I dived deeper into the book.
The book was very interesting, and initially I took as a memoir or a soliloquy. But as I moved ahead I realised that this book is simply written by a jilted lover. The initial pages were good, and were written very well but once the venom started it became a bit annoying. She actually wrote like she is a queen, and the poor lover is a cur from some deep dungeons. I know I can be judged as what is commonly known as male chauvinistic pig but there were a lot of mentions where the author tried to give upper hand to all her decisions, and it was all the mistake of her lover or a basic nature of a man in general.
She mentioned a lot of things which she appreciated in the early part of their relationship, and after break up (he actually married some other girl) she found all his traits mere trifle. She even sympathised with the girl whom her lover married, such a sham. And she justified it by proving that marriage is something which kills the romance from people's life which was the most absurd of the objections. I actually felt that this was the main reason for her hatred towards the institution called marriage, but I bet given a chance she'd have done it first thing herself.
She in fact sounded so rude while glorifying her own achievements. Of course, she said that all man around her are jealous of her success while not knowing that there were a lot of men who were actually paying to buy her novels. But accepting this fact would be belittling her own argument.
I didn't feel quite write after completing the book so no matter how famous she was I'm not going to read any of her novel in future.
While reading the book I got curious about the author, and found some interesting details about her. Her novels actually far exceeded in sale to her contemporary authors which count Arthur Conan Doyle, H. G. Wells, and Rudyard Kipling all put together. This was some serious news for me, and I dived deeper into the book.
The book was very interesting, and initially I took as a memoir or a soliloquy. But as I moved ahead I realised that this book is simply written by a jilted lover. The initial pages were good, and were written very well but once the venom started it became a bit annoying. She actually wrote like she is a queen, and the poor lover is a cur from some deep dungeons. I know I can be judged as what is commonly known as male chauvinistic pig but there were a lot of mentions where the author tried to give upper hand to all her decisions, and it was all the mistake of her lover or a basic nature of a man in general.
She mentioned a lot of things which she appreciated in the early part of their relationship, and after break up (he actually married some other girl) she found all his traits mere trifle. She even sympathised with the girl whom her lover married, such a sham. And she justified it by proving that marriage is something which kills the romance from people's life which was the most absurd of the objections. I actually felt that this was the main reason for her hatred towards the institution called marriage, but I bet given a chance she'd have done it first thing herself.
She in fact sounded so rude while glorifying her own achievements. Of course, she said that all man around her are jealous of her success while not knowing that there were a lot of men who were actually paying to buy her novels. But accepting this fact would be belittling her own argument.
I didn't feel quite write after completing the book so no matter how famous she was I'm not going to read any of her novel in future.
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