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I finished "The Devil Wears Prada" today and, though I mostly enjoyed it, I have to say I'm done with "revenge lit" for a while. I've had some awful jobs, some in some "glamorous" industries and I still can't understand why people allow themselves to be treated so poorly. I put up with a lot but it was always to get something I wanted and rarely did it cross the line of "acceptability" I had set for myself.
I was willing to put up with a bit of disrespect, a lot of condescension and pointless, stressful work to get something I wanted. I complained to my friends and mocked the people and situations that stressed me out as well as my own stupidity for continuing to do it. It never occurred to me that putting up with being treated badly in order to "skip a level or two" warranted a scathing "tell all", however "fictionalized". Where is the character in taking the short cut to the finish line and then ratting out the person who sold you the map (however overpriced it was) to do it?
The book is a fun summer read, though it's not incredibly well written. Character development is pretty nonexistent for everyone but the main character and all the plot lines are wrapped up in a pretty pat last chapter. I hope the author made enough off it that she can afford the false moral high ground she's claimed. And to hire a good shrink to assure her she's not as bad as she'd like us to believe Miranda/Anna is; that there's a difference between getting ahead by publicly belittling the people above you and doing it by belittling the people below you.
I was willing to put up with a bit of disrespect, a lot of condescension and pointless, stressful work to get something I wanted. I complained to my friends and mocked the people and situations that stressed me out as well as my own stupidity for continuing to do it. It never occurred to me that putting up with being treated badly in order to "skip a level or two" warranted a scathing "tell all", however "fictionalized". Where is the character in taking the short cut to the finish line and then ratting out the person who sold you the map (however overpriced it was) to do it?
The book is a fun summer read, though it's not incredibly well written. Character development is pretty nonexistent for everyone but the main character and all the plot lines are wrapped up in a pretty pat last chapter. I hope the author made enough off it that she can afford the false moral high ground she's claimed. And to hire a good shrink to assure her she's not as bad as she'd like us to believe Miranda/Anna is; that there's a difference between getting ahead by publicly belittling the people above you and doing it by belittling the people below you.
