by Marcy Dermansky
I see a lot of reviewers, here and elsewhere, excusing Marie her titular "badness" merely because she is easy to relate with, or because everyone else in the novel is worse. This is not a view I can even begin to understand: I felt like Dermansky did a good job of illuminating the alien corners of M...
http://www.bostonbibliophile.com/2011/02/review-bad-marie-by-marcy-dermansky.html
Thoughts: After hearing so many people rave about Bad Marie, citing it as one of their favorite reads of the year or of all time, I was expecting to love Marcy Dermansky’s book more than I did. While it was good, it was not so completely wonderful that I immediately started pushing it on others or w...
Marie is one of those people who go through life taking whatever they want, with no thought about the consquences. She has no conscience, no sense of right or wrong. While this makes for interesting reading, it does not make a likable character. Part of what's missing in Dermansky's book is the pres...
Marie is bad, or is she really? Marie just isn’t bad enough. If the author wanted to project the opposite, she didn’t do well on that either. The characters are all on the neutral side; no one has given a strong impact to the reader or at least to me.Wish there was some brutal sense to it, so I coul...
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