The book that I shall not name

Okay, so last week I finished a book, but I will refrain from writing it's title or the name of the author, as he happens to be an old teacher of mine. And I'm pretty sure he google's himself once in a while, and while I never really appreciated his teaching abilities I still respect him enough to not hurt his feelings by talking about his book. If he stalks me enough to find this small blog in the middle of nowhere in cyberspace, then so be it.

While the core plot was... fascinating, I found it disturbing to read something written by an old (both in the sense that he has passed a certain age and the fact that he is no longer my current teacher) teacher, especially when he writes in first person and the narrator is a seventeen year old psychopathic girl. I think most people who read something written by someone they know, but don't know really well, will understand what I mean. There is something unsettling about knowing what goes on in that man's head, especially since I know whose head it goes on inside. If that makes sense.

Apart from it being weird to read because someone I know wrote it, I also found the topic of brutal serial killing and lesbian orgies not really to my liking. And it was too much of the wholesome mormonism (should be noted that said author belongs to the Mormon church, adn teaches psychology - just like the serial killer-teacher leading his little group of students in a serial killing spree). Also, there are the typos. Grammar and spelling mistakes everywhere! I mean come on, how did the book even get published with that many typos?! Fine if there are two or three mistakes in a book, but not two or three in every chapter - on average (the book was more than twenty chapters). That just annoys the hell out of me, grammar/spelling Nazi as I can be sometimes..

Ok, so I guess it doesn't really matter what the book is called, since I won't recommend it to anyone. If you're intrigued anyways (by the serial killing and lesbian orgies and what not), write a comment below and I might reveal the book's identity to you.

xoxo
Frida