Title: Not as pleased as other readers....
Product review: I consider myself to be a huge bell hooks fan, but this book wasn't doing it for me. Usually, I can reading her cover to cover in a day and a half, but this time I find myself just barely picking through this. It's odd that her book "Salvation" on blacks and love was more interesting and only half the size of this tome. bell prides herself on bringing up race, class, and gender issues simultaneously, yet race and class drop to the wayside here. (To her credit, age and sexual orientation is brought up often.) I think readers unfamiliar with her work are going to be put off by her constant pointing to patriarchy and her continual assessment of feminism as a key aspect in women's search for love. Usually, bell has something brilliant to say in every chapter, and this time, I can't quote much that made me say, "Ahh! Good point!" bell can't really write bad books, it's just that this one did not blow me away like her previous texts.
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