Rob wrote:
"I don't care for "My Dark Places," personally, but I seem to
be alone."
No, you're not alone. I'm with you on that. It seemed to me
the book was exploitational, and not in a good way. It struck
me as the culmination of his using his mother's murder as
promotional tool and evidence of authenticy. Frankly, I found
more depth in his earlier magazine articles and interviews on
the subject. At book length, it became apparent to me that he
was hiding behind his newfound pseudo-jazz diction to keep
from really exposing himself and his emotions. The tabloid
specifics -- look at me, my mom was brutally killed; look at
me, I broke into houses to sniff women's panties -- seemed
intimate, but the psychological depths beneath these surface
details were largely skimmed over. It's entirely
understandable if he didn't want to confront a lot of this
stuff, or if he only wanted to do so in private, but that was
exactly what he promised and promoted in the book, so it came
off as a big bait and switch for me.
But how do you criticize someone whose mom died? It goes
against playground rules.
Mark
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