Review: Sorry, Didn't Work For Me
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 07 21, 2013
I wish I could find kind words for this book. It did manage to move me, despite myself.But the writing was a bit pedestrian, and my rating went from three stars to two when I encountered the line "she did not approve of his lifestyle choices". Yes, the book went on to explain that the MCs didn't have a choice, etc., but the very use of that abhorrent phrase (and not in parentheses), more than once, turned my stomach.No matter how "accepting" the rest of the writing might be, the sheer ignorance and insult of that phrase, treating someone's sexual orientation equivalent to their taste in shoes and movies just infuriates me.I didn't expect to encounter that in a book that was all about accepting oneself and getting beyond what other people think of you. And just to reinforce the confusion of the author, one of the last lines of the book hearkens back to that with a line like "he knew his choices...".Sorry, just couldn't get beyond that phrase. I should have stopped reading and gotten a refund on this very short book. Sorry I didn't.