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* ArcFatigue: ''Twice''. Once her husband dies, the narrator spends hundreds of pages lamenting her grief. In the end, it begins to grind on even the most sympathetic reader. The same thing happens once her lover deserts her after a year long tumultuous love affair. She spends several further hundreds of pages alternating between lamenting his departure and being incredulous at it - all without fully seeming to realize the role which her angry outbursts and jealousy played a role in the destruction of the relationship.
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* ArcFatigue: ''Twice''. Once her husband dies, the narrator spends hundreds of pages lamenting her grief. In the end, it begins to grind on even the most sympathetic reader. The same thing happens once her lover deserts her after a year long tumultuous love affair. She spends several further hundreds of pages alternating between lamenting his departure and being incredulous at it - all without fully seeming to realize the role which her angry outbursts and jealousy played a role in the destruction of the relationship.
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* ValuesDissonance: Some aspects of the book have not aged well at all. For example, the narrator believes that the only right kind of relationship is a monogamous heterosexual one. Or that the death of victims may have been them paying a karmic debt to their murderer.
* UnfortunateImplications: Result mostly from the outdated esoteric beliefs present in the book. Towards the end of the book, she has a trance-like conversation with a toy lion given to her by her ex-lover, in which she more or less has all her theories confirmed. This conversation results in the removal of her former lover's agency, as he is no longer a grown man who left her through his own decision, but someone who was possessed by a negative spirit whom the narrator invited in through her belief in her fears. Another conclusion drawn from the conversation is that anything beyond a man-woman union is wrong, that promiscuity will help bring about the end of the world and that transgender people have a spiritual imbalance which can be overcome by enlightenment - thus negating the desire to be anything but cisgender and heterosexual.
* UnfortunateImplications: Result mostly from the outdated esoteric beliefs present in the book. Towards the end of the book, she has a trance-like conversation with a toy lion given to her by her ex-lover, in which she more or less has all her theories confirmed. This conversation results in the removal of her former lover's agency, as he is no longer a grown man who left her through his own decision, but someone who was possessed by a negative spirit whom the narrator invited in through her belief in her fears. Another conclusion drawn from the conversation is that anything beyond a man-woman union is wrong, that promiscuity will help bring about the end of the world and that transgender people have a spiritual imbalance which can be overcome by enlightenment - thus negating the desire to be anything but cisgender and heterosexual.
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* ValuesDissonance: Some aspects of the book have not aged well at all. For example, the narrator believes that the only right kind of relationship is a monogamous heterosexual one. Or that the death of victims may have been them paying a karmic debt to their murderer.
* UnfortunateImplications: Result mostly from the outdated esoteric beliefs present in the book. Towards the end of the book, she has a trance-like conversation with a toy lion given to her by her ex-lover, in which she more or less has all her theories confirmed. This conversation results in the removal of her former lover's agency, as he is no longer a grown man who left her through his own decision, but someone who was possessed by a negative spirit whom the narrator invited in through her belief in her fears. Another conclusion drawn from the conversation is that anything beyond a man-woman union is wrong, that promiscuity will help bring about the end of the world and that transgender people have a spiritual imbalance which can be overcome by enlightenment - thus negating the desire to be anything but cisgender and heterosexual.murderer.
* UnfortunateImplications: Result mostly from the outdated esoteric beliefs present in the book. Towards the end of the book, she has a trance-like conversation with a toy lion given to her by her ex-lover, in which she more or less has all her theories confirmed. This conversation results in the removal of her former lover's agency, as he is no longer a grown man who left her through his own decision, but someone who was possessed by a negative spirit whom the narrator invited in through her belief in her fears. Another conclusion drawn from the conversation is that anything beyond a man-woman union is wrong, that promiscuity will help bring about the end of the world and that transgender people have a spiritual imbalance which can be overcome by enlightenment - thus negating the desire to be anything but cisgender and heterosexual.
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* NoYay: Some readers, especially those familiar with the background of the author, do not see the book's great romance as such, but as a relationship between a childish, demanding, bossy, obsessive, self-absorbed and delusional woman too afraid to be alone and a manipulative, holier-than-thou man who quickly threw the towel when confronted with his partner's flaws.
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* HarsherInHindsight: The ending of the book sees the narrator reunited with her lover, having had her faith in miracles rewarded. This makes, in the narrator's viewpoint, the book into a message for love and especially hope. Unfortunately, anyone familiar with her life will know that she never rekindled her relationship with Robert Brewer (the Leo lover), and that by the end of her life she was very sick, with her finances in shambles and with most or all her children rumored to be estranged. In the end, she died alone, which casts a different light on her book and makes her look delusional.
* NoYay: Crossed with AlternateCharacterInterpretation. Some readers, especially those familiar with the background of the author, do not see the book's great romance as such, but as a relationship between a childish, demanding, bossy, obsessive, self-absorbed and delusional woman too afraid to be alone and a manipulative, holier-than-thou man who quickly threw the towel when confronted with his partner's flaws.
* NoYay: Crossed with AlternateCharacterInterpretation. Some readers, especially those familiar with the background of the author, do not see the book's great romance as such, but as a relationship between a childish, demanding, bossy, obsessive, self-absorbed and delusional woman too afraid to be alone and a manipulative, holier-than-thou man who quickly threw the towel when confronted with his partner's flaws.
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* NoYay: Some readers, especially those familiar with the background of the author, do not see the book's great romance as such, but as a relationship between a childish, demanding, bossy, obsessive, self-absorbed and delusional woman too afraid to be alone and a manipulative, holier-than-thou man who quickly threw the towel when confronted with his partner's flaws.
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* ValuesDissonance: Some aspects of the book have not aged well at all. For example, the narrator believes that the only right kind of relationship is a monogamous heterosexual one. Or that the death of victims may have been them paying a karmic debt to their murderer.
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* ValuesDissonance: Some aspects of the book have not aged well at all. For example, the narrator believes that the only right kind of relationship is a monogamous heterosexual one. Or that the death of victims may have been them paying a karmic debt to their murderer.murderer.
* UnfortunateImplications: Result mostly from the outdated esoteric beliefs present in the book. Towards the end of the book, she has a trance-like conversation with a toy lion given to her by her ex-lover, in which she more or less has all her theories confirmed. This conversation results in the removal of her former lover's agency, as he is no longer a grown man who left her through his own decision, but someone who was possessed by a negative spirit whom the narrator invited in through her belief in her fears. Another conclusion drawn from the conversation is that anything beyond a man-woman union is wrong, that promiscuity will help bring about the end of the world and that transgender people have a spiritual imbalance which can be overcome by enlightenment - thus negating the desire to be anything but cisgender and heterosexual.
* UnfortunateImplications: Result mostly from the outdated esoteric beliefs present in the book. Towards the end of the book, she has a trance-like conversation with a toy lion given to her by her ex-lover, in which she more or less has all her theories confirmed. This conversation results in the removal of her former lover's agency, as he is no longer a grown man who left her through his own decision, but someone who was possessed by a negative spirit whom the narrator invited in through her belief in her fears. Another conclusion drawn from the conversation is that anything beyond a man-woman union is wrong, that promiscuity will help bring about the end of the world and that transgender people have a spiritual imbalance which can be overcome by enlightenment - thus negating the desire to be anything but cisgender and heterosexual.
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* ArcFatigue: ''Twice''. Once her husband dies, the narrator spends hundreds of pages lamenting her grief. In the end, it begins to grind on even the most sympathetic reader. The same thing happens once her lover deserts her after a year long tumultuous love affair. She spends several further hundreds of pages alternating between lamenting his departure and being incredulous at it - all without fully seeming to realize the role which her angry outbursts and jealousy played a role in the destruction of the relationship.
* ValuesDissonance: Some aspects of the book have not aged well at all. For example, the narrator believes that the only right kind of relationship is a monogamous heterosexual one. Or that the death of victims may have been them paying a karmic debt to their murderer.
* ValuesDissonance: Some aspects of the book have not aged well at all. For example, the narrator believes that the only right kind of relationship is a monogamous heterosexual one. Or that the death of victims may have been them paying a karmic debt to their murderer.
