A Super Short Book Review: The Sex Offender

Book info

This extravagantly imagined tale chronicles the rehabilitation of a lapsed teacher who is guilty of having had a love affair with a twelve-year-old boy.

 While the man’s crime was to mistake molestation for love, his cure will partake of the same confusion: in the name of love, the police and the doctors subject the teacher to increasingly bizarre forms of therapy. 

The Sex Offender is at once a burlesque of the State and an unmasking of the foundations on which our notions of love and psychological health are based. In lavish prose, it weds compelling mystery with comedy, satire, and politics.

My Thoughts About This Book:

I normally will not write a review for any book that I can't find a single redeeming quality in. Man is this book bad. This is the story of pedophilia, a teacher falls in love with a student and the student is only twelve years old. This is something that we are seeing more and more across genders. Which perhaps says a lot about the values of some people. The thing that disturbed me the most was I never really felt like the author solved anything. He seemed to be condoning the actions of the teacher. It seemed he was allowing this abuse or anything that the teacher was in the wrong for being punished, even though in reality, he really wasn't punished. It made me sick in a lot of ways. 

This book is ummm odd? It's umm extremely interesting, but not in a good way. I still can't seem to figure out the point of this little book or the purpose?  I can't figure out what the heck is going on in this book. It is bizarre, creepy, crazy, and filled with obnoxious language. It is different than lolita which was disturbing but had a purpose. This book is not worth the time and effort of reading.