A review by beeyes
Miss Understanding by Stephanie Lessing

1.0

This book. This goddamn book. The only reason I kept the copy I rescued from a pile of secondhand books is that I have grand plans to go back through and mock it because, oh man. The main character is the most unlikable character OF ALL TIME (Humbert Humbert included), and barely competent as a human, let alone as a functioning adult and somehow managing editor or whatever of a major publication? She natters on about how women need to escape their social conditioning to be in constant competition with one another while simultaneously referring to every other female character as a "girl" and denouncing them as sluts or bimbos. I screamed a lot while I was reading this book. I threw it across the room a couple of times. I only finished it out of a sense of obligation. If this book was a person I would walk up to them and punch them in the face.