You can call me a book worm. it's alright. i wont bear a grudge against you because to be honest, i believe in the COOLNESS of being someone who reads. it's cool to be able to go out socialising with your clique and still reserving some times alone at home with a book in hands (although this will usually be my the last option on my weekend list). let's talk about the problem of the Malaysian society which finds reading as a lame thing in my future posts. not now.
so, the book i read was The Undomestic Goddess by Sophie Kinsella. it was a best seller! i know, i know, ms. Kinsella has a world wide group of followers. and i may be receiving threatening comments or even threatening snail mails from her avid fans, but i believe in the freedom of speech that i have. =) i am not a good writer, but everyone has her right to put her tuppence in everything =) My two cents is that this book is so unrealistic... in its worst way!
it's the power of being a writer actually when you write about a young, successfull woman living in the big city with a big ambition and a pocketful of not sunshine apparently, but a pocketful of troubles and problems which is the biggest cliche you may find in this beautiful world of writing, and yet, you still be regarded as the best writer of the century and your books became bestsellers. too bad. everyone with the gift of writing can write a typical chick-lit.
honestly, i have nothing against ms. kinsella. but i pity her for her lack of fresh ideas (maybe IT IS a fresh idea in her own imagination library. but tell me honestly, how many times have you read a book where a girl (or a woman, because she always have a character which is a young woman, but with a pathetic mind who doesnt know how to think rationally, like a 10 year old girl), was at the peak of the world and suddenly her world came tumbling down, and there he was... THE KNIGHT IN THE SHINING ARMOUR (but in this book, it was a gardener with so many sharp tools to trim the bushes *wink*, including his overtly sharpened sex appeal, which was written in a way to make the readers drool).
so, this is what happened in the book. there was this one lawyer, a succesfull young lawyer, who was bred and fed with everything legal in every possible way. thanks to her mother who is a top gun in the legal world. there she was, on being promoted to be a partner in the firm she was working at, an incident happened where she was put to blame for a loss of millions which she believed she did not do, which turned out to be true as it was a senior partner who sabotaged her for certain malicious intents.
she ran away from her problematic life into a village where she became a housekeeper. and she was happy being a housekeeper for a filthy rich couple and eventually fell in love with the hero, who was a gardene who happened to have his own problems and issues, which include lawyer allergy. she came to know this and decided to keep it as a secret from him that she is a top ranking lawyer in the city. her friend came to bring some sense into her, which for a while she did grasp her senses, but the next minute, she made up her mind that she wanted to be a housekeeper for life and to live HAPPILY EVER AFTER with the guy of her dream. SERIOUSLY??????
you may see this as something blahblah.. but for me, being a law student (ok, i know im yet to a lawyer), this book reflected how shallow a great lawyer thinks. ms.kinsella makes a lawyer looks so stupid and unable to think straight when it comes to love and romance. im not saying that lawyers should be heartless and should live a restless life. but running away from her problems is not a path anyone, especially a lawyer should be taking.
there was one point in the book where she realised that she fell in love with her new life because she was so exhausted living in the city with all the datelines to meet, all the dates she missed and all her birthdays that her family keep forgetting. she found her escape but she realised that she cannot be living that way forever since it was only her heart telling her that this is the life determined for her but not her mind, which for a second realised that she felt that way because her body was in a serious need of a break. and i tought she was gonna do what her mind told her to, but THE POWER OF LOVE surpasses every single working cells of her brain. the only morale of the story is that YOUNG LADIES, PLEASE DONT BE SO STUPID AND SO CUPID-STRUCK AND BE STRONG. DONT GIVE UP EASILY.
i cannot believe it if anyone found this as a romantic book worth reading. this is BS. it encourages the young women to do nothing but to give up on life. ms. kinsella, i know you are trying to be a romantic writer who believes that love is what everyone needs. but all your books that i've read, they are so unreal. I read Confessions of a Shopaholic, and now, i remember none from the book except briefly that the book is about a young women living in the city (cliche) , who loves to shop (which is quite similar to me) and then came problems and finally, the perfect romance. i am sorry ms. kinsella but i believe that if you really are an amazing writer, i may remember every bit of that book. sadly, i dont. Among the books which words are tattooed to my mind is Carry Me Down by MJ Hyland. it's a great book.
maybe you are trying to show the readers that in this cruel and mean world we are living today, we still can rely on love to help us to be humane again. but please, be more realistic.
in a way, i found this book as demeaning the lawyers. but dont worry, its me against the world. you still have a big group of supporters. good for you.
call me anything you want, but here it is, my tuppence. go read the book yourself. if you are a sucker for romance, maybe you will fall head over heels reading it. but if you are living in a real world, dont even think of reading the synopsis of the book at the back cover of it. one read of it and you will get the whole idea of the book.
disclaimer: this is only my personal book review. no offense to anyone. dont get me wrong as someone who doesnt have a heart. i do. if i dont, i wont be a fan of The Wicker Park, The Phantom of the Opera and My Sassy Girl. it's just the way the book makes me feel. a surge of annoyance the very moment i finished reading it.
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