The Tell-Tale Heart, as told by Jodi Picoult

[greekhoop]

Recently I have been wondering where notorious murderer of the English language Jodi Picoult gets her ideas for her twist endings. I think the answer is probably something like, out of her butt. However, I was curious to see what would happen if one of literature's classic twists was rewritten in her, uh, singular style.

Comments

[apaximander]

I've only read one of her novels. It was sort of interesting, because it had bad comic books pages interspersed through all the boring prose (the main character is a comic book artist), but the plot got a little weird. The setup is that the main character's daughter is raped at a party, which awakens all of the slumbering darkness in his heart.

Only then you find out his daughter was actually making it up for no discernible reason that I can remember. I think she just felt like (character motivation is not Picoult's strong suit). You discover this AFTER the guy who supposedly raped her has killed himself because he was afraid of going to prison for a crime he didn't commit.

So, uh...yeah. I have no idea what she was going for, but it certainly didn't work. I'm morbidly curious about My Sister's Keeper, mostly because people keep telling me how absolutely dire it is.

[uglynoodles]

I've been reading it. I stopped, because... Fuck. The subject matter and just... Fuck. Just fuck. There's no other way to describe it.

[rayiroth]

It was the second worst book I've read from her. The worst was so disgusting I was physically sick.

I actually don't mind her writing style. I'm just done with her psychopath mommies dressed up as saints because mommies can do no wrong.

[greekhoop]

What's the worst one?

[insanepurin]

Oh man, that was hysterical. Thanks for warning me against Jodi Picoult!

[daystarsearcher]

I forget what story it was referring to, but my creative writing professor always likes to sum up the problems with it by going, "A man in a black leather jacket! Could he be--gasp!--EVIL?!"

[greekhoop]

That's not really fair. Sometimes the man in a leather jacket is a generically anti-authoity badass.

[siara79]

I'm so freaking tired that I read "raised by her aunt in Virginia" as "raised by her aunt in Vagina."

Now that I've added that pointless sentence, I'll just thank you for the entertainment and wander off. :)

[amyleaton]

ROFL @ PF Changs and FLOORBOARD-HEART-BURYER-UNDERER! OMG