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O Inferno De Alice (2010)

by Alice Jamieson(Favorite Author)

4.12 of 5 Votes: 3

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Edições Asa

review 1: Well, I recommend this book for people who likes autobiographys and that have any problems with rape scenes. And pedophilia.The book is really good, althought those thought scenes.It opens our minds for the multiple personality disorder and for other problems like these.You start to understand why is so hard to rape victms to talk about it. It's always there, hauting them.In Alice's case, that suffered all existent kinds of abuse and got some of the worst consequences that it can bring, she's turned up pretty well for her own situation.If you weren't agains asylums before, after you read this, you will be, because Alice suffers a lot on one. We also learn that we must have patience with disturbed people and that we can't forget that.Alice tells her story really well and do... moreesn't leave anything out, even her worst memories. It worths a lot reading.The end was a bit disappointing for me. I mean, there's this nice part when she decides to not integrate her personalities, that would be her 'cure' to all her problems. She believes that her and her personalities are a team. Then, she starts to respect her personalities and the personalities start respecting her too, because they all are a part of the same history.One thing that I didn't like was that her mate, the only man that she loves and was able to have a healthy sex life with (= no rapes), is older than her and could be her father. A total Oedipus complex and I didn't like it at all. Even the way that she figures out that she loves him isn't romantic.Her personalities are nice (most of them). I really like Billy, he's cute.The thing that I really hated and made the book lose one star, was that her father NEVER was punished for having abused her. NEVER.I recommend it anyway.
review 2: This book is one of those which you'd expect to be a 'sob story' account of childhood incidents effecting the adult life of someone. However, instead it is written from a slightly objective point of view; exploring in depth the consequences and causes of the multiple mental health problems she suffers. The story leads the reader to admire Alice through its illustration of how clever and cultured Alice is in spite of her past and present troubles. At times it is graphic in scenes which make you physically recoil; but even here it is not a downside but a necessity to the story to give its outstanding impact. As can be seen, I was extremely impressed by this book. I cannot recall when I last came across one so well written and so inspiring. less

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