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What Rhymes with Bastard?

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It's not just because I've met the author that causes me to write a glowing review (I've been on several zone trips run by the anonymized 'Duckbill Pete', a mutual friend), but rather because Linda's voice in the book is as clear -- and as entertaining -- as her voice in life.

For a real trip through the streets of San Francisco in the vein of a (non-lesbian) Michelle Tea or Ali Liebegott, Linda's book is well worth the read.

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. A well written romp through a doomed relationship including many embarrassing and endearing details. By the end I had laughed and cringed and felt involved in the story like I would with a dear friend. I recommend it.

I really wanted to like this book. Really. I liked the character. But I was also really impatient and annoyed with her. Ok. So her husband wants to go out and sleep with lots of women and then tell her about it. And she agreed to this arrangement. So in my book this doesn't really make him a [...]. It makes her kind of dumb. I mean, the signs were there. He wasn't all that much in college. And she still went for him. So, without being all Dr. Phil or anything - um... he was honest. She said she was ok with it. So out of the two of them...he was honest. She wasn't. I get annoyed by people playing the victim when they agreed to the circumstances and went into them fully knowing what was going on.

She also makes me mad. I had to leave the UK - her home country - because my visa expired, even though I had a job and was trying to make a contribution to society there. She is unemployed, but won't take "any" job - oh, no, she has high standards. She also hangs out with heroine addicts and various prostitutes. And I had to leave England. I just can't get over that.

So yeah, thinking about it now, I think I'm just really annoyed by the character and her story. Which disappoints me because I wanted to like it. I just think she's kind of a hazard, and way too drama. Her memoir is compared to Bridget Jones. Bridget Jones is adorably neurotic. This chick is dangerously crazy. That doesn't make it "edgier". That makes it intervention-worthy.