We need to talk about Kevin

[emkana]

Has anybody read this?

I would really like to talk about this as I found it absolutely fascinating.

Don't want to start though because I don't want to spoil it for anybody.

So anybody up for an exchange of views?

I haven't read it but would like to.

Read some reviews/interviews and the author sounded a bit ... weird.

Mind you, who'd called their DAUGHTER Lionel?

I'll read it and then get back to you...

haven't read it but have just read an article about it and thought I'd probably want to read it! Not much help, sorry....

It's even weirder - the woman decided as a teen to call herself Lionel, before she was called something normal.

Yes, please do!

I'm about half way through it - in fact I quoted from it on - the 'Bree' thread today

so far, very good - there are lots of things that mners would find to discuss between the pages

Oh, please let me know when you've finished! Am dying to discuss it with somebody, but you really need to have read it all...

will do - didn't know Lionel was a 'she'

Apparently she called herself Lionel because she thought that 'men have it better'. Hmmmm.

I'm sure there's another thread on her somewhere (not terribly complimentary iirc).

Feel sure self actualisation is in there somewhere isn't it Snafu?

You are, as always, totally on the ball, www

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I thought it was brilliant - finished it last week. My copy has suggested questions in the back for book groups who are discussing it. Could start a new thread and use some of them?

That article in the link does sound like American Angle though - ie., nuts!

can you wait til I've finished - please

I guess I should be nice to you as I've called you old and told you to sod off today...

hurry up with it though!

thank you

I'm getting on with it but I had to check if those other boys she mentions are legit - and they sure are!

That booked depressed me to all hell.

I was so severely depressed with PND I was off my trolley on a cocktail of drugs. Even then, it's obvious to me Lionel/Margaret (she changed her name at 15) has never had a child of her own, b/c I don't think it's possible for Kevin's mum - or any mum - to honestly feel that way for her child unless she is a true sociopath. I think it's more Lionel/Margaret's disdain for having kids and for career women who do.

Ugggh. Well written, but it drained me.

I thought it was excellent - for me, though I was gripped with the story the style of writing didn't grip me iykwim?

anyway I certainly didn't twig about Franklin too absorbed in the story to speculate what he was up to although I kept wanting to hear his side of things from his own lips.

I was quite choked towards the end as well - had to swallow hard

Come on Moo - question time