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Posted: 5 years ago

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Originally posted by: TrollikaDevi

I love the fig tree passage from The Bell Jar. Otherwise I found it overated. Read it when I was 25 so I was disappointed. Seemed too self indulgent or something. I was expecting more about depression but it came off as an overdose of White Girl Problems in many parts.

A bit overrated imo but still a good read. I like her poem Tulips.

That’s okay.😊I found it very relevant even in today’s times.It was sad to see how she was trapped within a bell jar of her own design bcoz of her paradoxical thoughts.Some of the passages are so hard hitting,heartbreaking yet beautifully relatable.

Love the Fig tree passage.Its my fav part too.

Plus another passage that affected me most was the one where she describes her first electric shock.The whole description of the shock was so well written..it literally shaked me up.Very tragic.💔

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Posted: 5 years ago

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I have loved many of the books by Paulo Coelha - Alchemist, Veronica decides to die, By the River Piedra I Sat down and Wept, Brida, The Zakir - Back during my Undergrad days, his books really opened up a new dimensional way to approach a situation. It opened up many horizons!

I also loved most of Dan Brown's mystery - Deception Point (my favorite), Angel's and Demons, The Da Vinci Code!