Reading this novel caused me pain, not in a physical sense but rather psychological. You want to know why? The answer is easier than you think… the language was way too advanced for me. Just about every time I thought I caught the idea of a certain paragraph or even a page it came to my disappointment that it is not true and that I had to reread that certain part… now that I call torture ;-)Well, what can you actually say about such a story/novel? It is for sure different from what I have read before…
Robyn Penrose, my favourite character, is the one who kept me moving until I reached the end of the book… I felt that we had so much in common. Her self-confidence, ambition, academic background et cetera et cetera.
The obstacles women have to face in order to "shine" in man’s world is always going to be an attractive debate issue, even though we are in the 21st century. I am not willing to make any comment on that for now!
What I found really interesting is the meeting between a woman like Robyn born and bred in academia and a man, Vic, an industrial manger who has time for almost everything except for reading books. How two completely different characters with different views and values came together to some kind of understanding! Amazing, isn’t?
Hurra hurra!! This is the final blog assignment for this semester :-)
