My review:
I felt so sad throughout the entirety of this book. Sad because it seems as though Simone has never had a loving relationship (be it with her mother, partners, etc.) to show her that her disordered perception of the world of love and her cynicism towards it is unjustified.
Unfortunately, as a result, she has extrapolated theories about the world to which she has then attached cherry-picked citations and references. The references supposedly “prove” or “clearly show” that her position is correct but instead they make, I believe, the book very unacademic – quite surprising considering how smart she was (and there are flashes of brilliance scattered throughout this work).
Also, she is very repetitive and verbose. This book could easily be cut down to 200 pages without losing any “substance”. I have a feeling that big chunks of her writing was done under the influence of decent doses of wine because although parts of the book are quite lucid, other parts are semi-disjointed “rants”.
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