You Wicked Man

I'm reading Wicked right now and... it's not what I thought it would be. Just a bit too politically charged for my taste. Regardless of the undertones, I have found it fairly interesting.

There's a big "however" after that last statement though. I really struggle with male authors who write about women and throw in weird little tidbits in their effort to seem as if they know what they're talking about. For example, there is a part of the story where a nine year old girl is sitting on her mother's lap and he puts a line in there that says, "and with her left hand she felt the cloth of Sarima's gown until she found a nipple and ran her thumb over it lovingly as if it were a small pet:".

Uh, dude? Just one little thing. Girls don't run their fingers over their mother's nipples like little pets. Mmm kay?

Also, he mentions pee and piss and peeing and pissing about a zillion times. Not necessary. Here I am trying to follow a story line and he ends a paragraph with, "she peed on the floor, and sniffed her urine with satisfaction and disgust.". Great. That's just effing lovely.

Overall, like I said, interesting. Read again? Nah. Don't think so.

Pisser.