The first off-putting thing was the amount of lazy, easily fixed mistakes (names spelled wrong, “poisonous” used when the author meant “venomous” etc)The first off-putting thing was the amount of lazy, easily fixed mistakes (names spelled wrong, “poisonous” used when the author meant “venomous” etc) scattered through the book. On top of that, the entire book is made up of what seems to be the author’s guesses and assumptions about the specific inner thoughts and feelings these women had 70 years ago. Maybe I’d be more charitable to all the assuming if the author hadn’t been so sloppy with the minor easily googled things… if you can’t get basic stuff right why should I trust you to get these very specific hard to verify details right lmao.
Anyway surely there’s something better on this subject to read bc these women are super interesting, this just didn’t do them any justice. If you still want to read it, just read this 40 times and you’ve basically got the gist of it:
“Janet loved her Billy. Her world revolved around him. He was her great obsession, her angel, her reason for living. She was endlessly loyal to him and made countless sacrifices for his sake. She would die if anything ever happened to him.”
“Billy saw Janet three times a year and only because NASA forced him to. His hobbies were driving cars really fast and cheating on Janet. He was friends with JFK and he exploded but we will gloss over both those things to instead prattle on about how annoying leftists are for the 4849494th time.”...more
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