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butlerebecca's review against another edition
dark
reflective
medium-paced
4.25
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Murder, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, and Rape
sarah0003's review against another edition
challenging
dark
funny
informative
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
susannareads's review against another edition
challenging
dark
inspiring
medium-paced
5.0
One of the best books I’ve read in a while. It looks at some of the most critical questions of our current social climate through a different (and extremely engaging) lens.
sungmemoonstruck's review against another edition
challenging
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
An incredibly smart, thought-provoking reflection on what we do with the art of monstrous men, what makes a monster, and what it means to love a piece of art. This is the kind of book that rewards and demands the reader's complete attention and I loved the way it challenged me and made me think more deeply. There's no easy answers here and that felt so refreshing.
kristenleeluna's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
4.5
gretareadsbooks's review against another edition
challenging
dark
informative
reflective
sad
medium-paced
3.5
Content Warnings
Moderate: Mass/school shootings and Sexual assault
wandering_not_lost's review against another edition
challenging
reflective
3.5
A book where I highlighted more good, pithy ideas than I expected to, but yet rolled my eyes at a lot of the rest. The book is overall about the audience's relationship to art and artists, especially when that artist turns out to be a bad person. She touches on many artists of various types and many topics: the self-congratulatory nature of moral pronouncements, the weird way that we are now steeped in information about artists, and the way female artists are treated differently than male when it comes to pronouncing someone "monstrous". She lost me some times sounding a bit too pretentious and overgeneralized, and hearing a whole lot about the genius of people whose work I never saw (or whom I never heard of) was probably a me problem, but didn't help. Still, some interesting food for thought.
mriga's review
2.0
Flew through the first half and then it lost steam and it feels like we get 5 chapters for topics that could be contained in 1.