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An Internet porn obsession drives a common family man into divorce, the horrors of incest, and a life he had not planned for. Exiled from his former world he escapes into oblivion until years later the daughter he had abused tracks him down. The young woman has her own addictions and troubles. Father, daughter and a revolver meet and destinies change.
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After reading the first reviewer who didn't even finish the book (the lady saying this writer should go to jail), I almost didn't buy it. I, too, didn't want to read a book about a pedifier abusing his daughter. However, this book is written in two parts Part one is about a sex addict's downward spiral into depravity. While the second part is about the abused daughter's emptiness (not your typical survival/victim story). Although it's a work of fiction, as a addicted person myself, I can testify to its realness. He doesn't get help with his addiction (I got help) and his daughter feels lost within hers. A lot of books (almost all of them) about addictions incorporate religion as a cure. He isn't a religious person so he doesn't turn to God or religion for help. It's sad in the end he doesn't get help but he's a pedifier and he knows it. I'm going out on a limb here saying it might be helpful for other addicts to read his story. Inasmuch as it helped me understand how I'm not alone in my own struggle with sexual addiction. I highly recommend it.
Perhaps this piece of realist fiction can help professionals as well as laypeople understand the culture of addiction better. The story highlights man as a diseased species unable and unwilling to lift a finger to help himself in ways that matter. He is the cause of his own suffering and the suffering of others, he knows this, but is helpless to prevent it, despite his knowledge, despite his guilty conscience. His noble spirit emerges only when he becomes an old man, incapable of doing the harm his younger self could so easily execute upon the innocent and vulnerable. One has to wonder, did society fail this man and his daughter? Why didn't the child's mother report him to the police when she found out he'd been sexually abusing his daughter? Is big business behind internet porn to blame? Somewhere in the scheme of things, money is to be made off the weaknesses of others. Maybe that's part of the problem. One would think too that with educational potential as extreme as it is in our modern world, that these cycles of maladjustment could be broken, but why aren't they? Why did the main character in the first part of the novel become what he became? Was he the little boy whose neighbour seduced him into perfroming sick exercises through the chain link fence in return for gifts? Here was a neglect by the parents in relation to this child. The child grows up addicted to sex as a man, damages his own daughter who later suffers from problems directly caused by her childhood and the cycle is perpetuated. Stories like this one highlight the wretchedness of man but sadly do not provide a source of hope. Perhaps there is no hope for man and his wretchedness--which is probably what the author wants the reader to take away.
This could benefit from an edit. There were so many typos and the author tried too hard with the language. There were so many cases where a more common word would have expressed his meaning much more succinctly. The book reads like a lot of memoirs do by men who have been in prison and spend a lot of time with their Scrabble dictionary. That's not meant as a slight, it is what it is and produces a lot of the same language rhythms and word choices.
For all of that, I found the first part to be very realistic. The second part with the daughter's story, not so much. Hers, I could buy... but the mother's behavior was completely opposite some where she started without an explanation to the reader why that happened. The father's ending, also not believable. But it's possible I've just lived in this kind of world for too long for any kind of suspension of disbelief.
I will give the author kudos because I've read a lot of these novels where it looks like it's not tackling dark subject matter at all, but undercover kiddie porn. This did not read that way at all and was very honest.
This is a deeply transgressive novel, a genre that I am usually quite a fan of. It's about a man's descent into a sex addiction that results in him molesting his own daughter and his daughter's response to that abuse.
In the hands of a more gifted writer, we might gain insight into human behavior that justifies the sordidness. However, Rodriguez never goes beyond the easy, cliche, and expected, turning all these details into a layer of slime that left me wanting to shower.
The book begins with a cheerful Christmas letter, but immediately transitions to our main character downloading more and more bizarre porn. Was he normal before the family got the computer? Flashbacks to him molesting a young girl when he was a teenager and his disturbed diary entries indicate that he wasn't, which makes it unclear why so much time is spend cataloging the specifics of his porn collection and what the letter was actually supposed to illustrate to us. That happy looking families can hide serious problems? Did anybody not know that already?
As his life falls apart, he begins to molest his young daughter. No details are spared here. I strongly question the taste of these scenes. They lack artistic merit. They lack any originality. They do not help us understand the main character any better. There is nothing to validate them. When his ex-wife discovers what is going on, he leaves town. The story resumes when his daughter, now college-aged, struggles with the aftermath of abuse and encounters her father one last time.
This man was our main character for most of the book and was a deeply disturbed individual who seemed barely able to function. Readers may be curious how he survived, what he did, how he actually feels, what brought his life back from the brink -- questions that do not seem to occur to the author. We get a quick resolution to the story and a pasted-on moral about internet porn.
This book felt exploitative. The weak characterization means it fails as an exploration of evil or what it means to be victimized. If internet pornography is meant to be the scapegoat, the fact that the main character molested a child before he even had a computer is confusing. At the end of the day, I cannot figure out a plausible (non-exploitative) reason for this book to exist.
On top of those issues, the book is terribly written. The editing is terrible and it reads like the author replaced words with "fancier" ones so he would sound more educated. However, he doesn't use all the words correctly, creating a comic effect. It's also studded with terrible song lyrics, giving it the feel of a emo journal entry.
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