Have you ever read a book that has intrigued you so much you've neglected most of the other things you usually enjoy and look forward to, only to finish the book and be deeply disappointed due to the ending you expected to be mind-blowing and something you couldn't even imagine, instead getting a mundane resolution you threw to the trash can as far too.. well, mundane?
I've just spent two days with Torey Haden's fiction novel 'The Mechanical Cat'. Resembles greatly 'The Blind Assassin' by Margaret Atwood in structure. I even skipped BodyPump (!) today just to finish the book after I kept catching my thoughts wondering off to the novel and it's plot during Balance. Okay, the ending was justified and I agree with the character who undoubtedly will be punished severely in our Western patriarchal legislation. I was just so hoping the character had been a pathological liar and all of that had been make-believe. That is the easy way out; no need to remember all of that happens every single day to countless girls and women, all who have to live in the constant fear of this. In the novel there is, as Kirsi Rekola says (http://www.mielenterveys-taimi.fi/kipunoita/2000_02/21.htm), "a psychologically created tension within the reader's own mind. Not recommended to the sensitive ones."
The novel has also been discussed here at http://ranneliike.net/keskustelu.php?act=rthrd&grpid=10&thrdid=3463. But ye be warned; the discussion contains spoilers.
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