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Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession by Alice Bolin
4 reviews
bookedandbusy's review against another edition
challenging
dark
informative
medium-paced
3.75
I enjoyed this one, but I do feel like the author went off on some unrelated tangents that I wasn’t super interested in and they made the story drag on. But I found this book interesting nonetheless, and I enjoyed learning how the obsession with missing/murdered girls and women is portrayed in media.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Murder
Moderate: Ableism and Rape
thewoodlandbookshelf's review
informative
reflective
medium-paced
3.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Misogyny, Racism, Rape, and Murder
queergoth_reads's review
informative
slow-paced
2.5
I've only recently got into reading non-fiction and I was so excited to read this book, it felt like it would be right up my street. But like many other reviewers have pointed out this book is not really what it was marketed as which was hugely disappointing. Like so many of the books and shows the author talks about, we expect the story of the Dead Girl "but the story was elsewhere".
Another that bothered me with this is when celebrities were examined and the paparazzi and public's reaction and influence their lives was explored, the celebrities really didn't get much exploration and I felt like they were left as these one dimensional people that the media tends to portray them as. I just wasn't fond of the use of their stories.
Another that bothered me with this is when celebrities were examined and the paparazzi and public's reaction and influence their lives was explored, the celebrities really didn't get much exploration and I felt like they were left as these one dimensional people that the media tends to portray them as. I just wasn't fond of the use of their stories.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Mental illness, Sexual assault, and Murder
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