"Narcissism" is about right; everything is about her her her, and it's painfully clear that part of the reason she can't stand the other women is that she feels that they're competing with her for attention. (The initial reason she had for disliking Mimi and Penny was that they were "hogging" the attention of two of the guys... because it's impossible that they just wanted to have a conversation, of course.)
And there's so little about the actual cooking.
Blech. Bad book. Boring book, livened only by hints of rage-inducing misogyny.
(There was also a bit where she explained that the actual Chinese open-air market in New York was disgusting... and then a couple of pages later raved about the Chinese food cooked by... a Frenchman, of course. There wasn't quite enough of that kind of thing to center a post around, but it left a bad taste in my mouth too.)
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Date: 2010-09-12 05:24 pm (UTC)And there's so little about the actual cooking.
Blech. Bad book. Boring book, livened only by hints of rage-inducing misogyny.
(There was also a bit where she explained that the actual Chinese open-air market in New York was disgusting... and then a couple of pages later raved about the Chinese food cooked by... a Frenchman, of course. There wasn't quite enough of that kind of thing to center a post around, but it left a bad taste in my mouth too.)