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| AUTHOR: | Mary McGarry Morris |
| CATEGORY: | Book |
| MANUFACTURER: | Penguin Books |
| ISBN: | 0140272119 |
| TYPE: | Fiction, Fiction - General, General |
| MEDIA: | Paperback |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
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Customer Reviews of A Dangerous Woman
Interesting and Compelling Meet Martha Horgan. By all accounts she is odd, peculiar, and haunting. Martha is definately suffering from a mental illness. But the question that must be asked is how this illness came to be. Was Martha always odd, or did something unspeakable occur to make her this way?
Martha craves to be like everybody else. She is starved for friendship, love, and mostly normalacy. She is often found obsessing about contacting her 'best friend', or lurking about watching people. Martha's obsessions are often disturbing to those around her.
Set in a small town, Martha Horgan is a household name, a taboo. Martha, who is relentlessly truthful, does not have the control to hold back, even when it means diaster for herself. Through Martha's truth, she is often victimized by those who she preceives closest to her.
A Dangerous Woman is an interesting and compelling read, you will want to find out how Martha resolves all her difficulties. Mary McGarry Morris has created a diverse novel with many twists and turns! Accompained by a diverse cast of characters, A Dangerous Woman is a novel to read!
Fast-paced, compelling, disturbing , a must read.
This was my first book to read by Mary McGarry Morris but will not be my last. The book makes you realize how the negative social attitudes of people to individuals who are not social acceptable and conforming can result in very negative results to all . Martha was very disturbed. Excessive on beliefs that we look at a a society as being honorable. Where do we draw the line in our beliefs and our actions to defend these beliefs? A great novel about Martha an eccentric character and her struggle to survive in an environment that does not accept her. Lots of plot twists , a definite page turner.
You'll be annoyed, but keep going . . .
Within the first fifty pages or so, I was totally aggravated by Martha. She has suffered a traumatic childhood and adolescence, sure - but could she be any more annoying? It was easy to understand how the people around her react as they do, and why children still taunt her in the street now that she's a woman of thirty. It's as if there is some socially-deficient fog clouding her brain, making her honest to the point of incurring violence. She remains, to the end, an unlikable character.
That, however, is part of what makes her story a fascinating read. I resisted the urge to toss this book aside in favor of the Ramsey Campbell paperback sitting on my nightstand, and by the hundredth page I was still annoyed by Martha - but I had to know what would become of her. From the opening paragraph, we know that she's going to kill someone . . . but who? and why? and will she lose her painful sense of honesty?
Morris does a fine job of getting the reader inside Martha's head, (much in the same way that Mr. Campbell does), though very unobtrusively. It was only toward the end of the book that I found myself, while still disliking Martha, at least understanding her. I even felt a passing moment of triumph when she held to her grating sense of truth in the final pages.
This is not one of those books I would keep on my shelf for future re-readings - I honestly couldn't bear Martha for another 300 pages - but it makes me wish I hadn't sold Ms. Morris' VANISHED to the used book-store without ever reading it.