Savannah Knoop
Teoksen Girl Boy Girl: How I Became JT LeRoy tekijä
Tekijän teokset
Merkitty avainsanalla
Yleistieto
- Sukupuoli
- female
Jäseniä
Kirja-arvosteluja
Tilastot
- Teokset
- 2
- Jäseniä
- 63
- Suosituimmuussija
- #268,028
- Arvio (tähdet)
- 2.9
- Kirja-arvosteluja
- 3
- ISBN:t
- 9
- Kielet
- 3
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I was expecting high drama and excitement, but got anxiety and confusion. Maybe more accurate in some ways, but the result was surprisingly slow-paced and not as fun to read as I'd hoped. The outing had a lot of potential to spice up the book, but instead of drawing it out and going deep into the messiness, Knoop ends the book suddenly after barely a chapter.
Also not that insightful unfortunately. Not surprisingly I was most interested in the Gender of it all, especially since Knoop later came out as nonbinary, but there's almost no understanding demonstrated in the book itself. The things that the book doesn't understand about gender are a whole other kind of interesting: I think there's a scholarly essay in what on earth S&L were trying to get at by making JT a "t****y" (yeah, warning, that word gets thrown around), and how all the other famous people around JT understood JT's gender, because clearly they thought they did? I guess it's just a snapshot of cis projections on/about trans women, but man are those strange.… (lisätietoja)