Crazy!

     I hate to admit that I completely agree with Angela on this one. I've been trying to read this book for well over a week now, and normally a book this size takes me three days... or one whole night if I get too much into it! I find myself glaring at this book -- not sure I want to pick it up and continue reading it. I've made it to page 30 and I find myself completely detached from the writer. The only things I like in this book so far are the random tangents she takes where she talks about history, or random facts.
     I don't find her character convincing. I don't feel sorry for her because she messed up her own life. I don't feel sorry for her at all. I feel horrible for her husband, the man who thought she loved him. The man who woke up one day and realized that the woman who was supposed to love him could so easily walk away from him. I don't see him as the bad guy. I don't see him drawing out the divorce for a few years as a bad thing. I think it was him trying to have hope that she would change her mind and change the things that she was doing so much to ruin. I know what it feels like to have someone who is supposed to love you walk right out of your life -- and I'll never feel sorry for someone who can do that to someone else.
     I don't feel the need to feel sorry for this character at all. Okay, fine, you feel that you don't know yourself -- but -- there are so many things I wish she'd explained. There is just not enough emotion and information in the first 30 pages for me to find her story convincing. I want to know why she felt the way she felt, and more details. I don't want to be told, I want her to use her words and show me a lot more about this character.
    I saw the movie, and I have to say that this lovely artist who she shacks up with in the book is not the crazy, dead beat character they made him out to be in the movie. I have begun to wonder if they made him less likable to make her story more credible, because it lacked a bunch of credit for the reader to feel as though they felt for her in any way.
    Anyway, I'm going to take another stab at it, and I'm going to try to find something I like about it!