Comments on: Book review: We need to talk about Kevin http://www.marionsmits.net/2007/12/07/book-review-we-need-to-talk-about-kevin/ fMRI and DTI research Mon, 06 Feb 2012 07:50:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Alphast http://www.marionsmits.net/2007/12/07/book-review-we-need-to-talk-about-kevin/#comment-1821 Mon, 10 Dec 2007 11:06:07 +0000 http://www.marionsmits.net/2007/12/07/book-review-we-need-to-talk-about-kevin/#comment-1821 I hate playing trouble maker, but I was not as enthusiastic about the book. I found the story compelling and the writing eloquent indeed. But I also resented a bit the weird message (at least as I understood it): that it is the family which creates the monster... It remains uneasily unclear in the book why the kid acted this way. The issues of free will, nature and nurture are brushed upon (too) quickly. I eventually didn't like the use of emotional tricks by the author to push her ideas and kind of hurt you down into her plot. And last but not least, I found all the characters so inhuman, so remote from the reality that I couldn't buy it any more after the first half... I hate playing trouble maker, but I was not as enthusiastic about the book. I found the story compelling and the writing eloquent indeed. But I also resented a bit the weird message (at least as I understood it): that it is the family which creates the monster…

It remains uneasily unclear in the book why the kid acted this way. The issues of free will, nature and nurture are brushed upon (too) quickly. I eventually didn’t like the use of emotional tricks by the author to push her ideas and kind of hurt you down into her plot. And last but not least, I found all the characters so inhuman, so remote from the reality that I couldn’t buy it any more after the first half…

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