I don't know if it's already bindun
I am OBSESSED with We Need To Talk About Kevin by Lionel Schriver and was not impressed by the recent film release at all.

There are a number of reasons why this is one of my favourite books but probably the main one is that parts of the book really resonated.

The storyteller, Eva, is reluctant to have children much like the author because she likes her life as it is. A line in an essay written by the author about the book really stayed with me, she writes: "Since just about any stranger could come knocking nine months later, coitus without contraception is like leaving your front door unlocked. Unsafe sex, indeed".

Everytime I read this book I can't decide whether I fall on the side of Eva who unwittingly opened her home to a disturbed individual from whom she cannot separate herself or whether the storyteller is cold and cruel and responsible for the events in the book. Either way, the fact is, Eva is an unreliable storyteller and I feel it reallys sets the tone.

Anyway I'll stop frothing at the mouth.
(GirlOfTheWorld, Fri 6 Jan 2012, 10:18, 3 replies)

i personally blame eva.
she's a stony-hearted bitch.
( janet aylia y'all motherfuckers need jesus, Fri 6 Jan 2012, 11:23, closed)

Me too.
And I haven't even seen it.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Fri 6 Jan 2012, 12:08, closed)

The book really stayed with me after I had read it. Doubt that I'll bother with the film.
(ridethefader, Sat 7 Jan 2012, 11:54, closed)