( 6 reviews )
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Posted: Jan 11 2009
I loved this book! It is funny, sad, heart-wrenching, depressing, disturbing, uplifting, and causes you to re-think all of your relationships, spouse/partner-wise and others. No matter what personal relationship hell you have been through, it will make you realize that you are not alone, others have been through it as well, and it will leave you some great templates for expressing your feelings. For anyone who has been betrayed and looking for the resource book on just how to cope - this will help. This isn't classic literature. It isn't even good literature. If that is what you are looking for, this isn't for you. But if you have been betrayed, dumped, or just plain used, you will love hearing how these folks have expressed their rage in similar instances.
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( 1 of 2 found this review helpful ) Posted: Feb 28 2007
Hell Hath No Fury is a collection of letters written by women and the end of a relationship. The letters are grouped by themes starting with the fantastically gritty "tell-off" letter, some of these got very nasty. Two categories I thought stood out were the autopsy letter (the letter where we dissect everything that went wrong with the relationship) as well as the unsent letter. There are MANY letters in this book and at least half of them are snoozers or too desperate-sounding to be enjoyable reading. There are some absolute gems, though, especially some of the historical figures including a letter from Anne Boleyn (in the tower awaiting trial) to King Henry VIII. I also enjoyed the letters from Zelda, Sylvia Plath, and Sandra Bernhardt. The book is practical for subway commuting since most letters are at most a few pages long.
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( 0 of 6 found this review helpful ) Posted: Feb 10 2007
Get over it. ----------- This inability to do so may go far in explaining the recent studies and the curiously overlooked criminal justice statistics that report men are killed twice as often as women due to family violence and the number one motive reported for female on female and female on male violence? Jealousy. In a world in which we turn our backs on Black males[who are at 8 times greater risk of being the *victim* of a violent crime than they're White female counterparts], we seem compelled to "rescue" and creatively excuse nearly every act of female aggression and violence, even towards each other, perhaps it's neither "Hell" we should worry about facing nor even the wrath of the jilted and hopelessly insecure, petty, delusional, and dependent women overwhelmingly featured in this sophomoric collection of impulsivity, resentment, and misandry; it is ourselves. But then again, culpability is something these women never seem to grasp. If only they could, maybe, just maybe, they could just move on and somehow manage to do so without harming others in the process. AX~
