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Title: Is There a Point Here?
Review: People who claim this is one of the best books they've ever read clearly have not read many books.Plath's description of her main character's descent into crippling depression is unremarkable and hardly credible, made even more so by the fact that Esther's life is so dull to begin with. When did she undergo the electroshock therapy--on page 1 or page 101? We can't tell because Esther's a bore right from the start and there's no difference in her character between "before" and "after." Plath does an unenviable job of turning her tumultuous life into a tedious collection of journal entries of a lifeless, forgettable character. The ambiguous ending only serves to punctuate the lack of anything creditable about this book.
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