Reviews for Abnormal Psychology and Modern Life

The average rating for Abnormal Psychology and Modern Life based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2015-08-25 00:00:00 Emmanuel Landau I was thrilled to be done reading this book because, boy, was it horrible. I expected a sociological exploration of the lives of Russian women who emigrate to the U.S. Something cohesive, something with a thesis or point of view, interspersed with narratives from the women interviewed. I expected far too much. What I got was a book littered with grammatical errors, misspellings, and missing words. Whomever proofread this book ought to be fired forthwith. Words were left out of sentences here and there -- but that's okay; they made up for it by repeating sentences unnecessarily. One woman discloses that she observed women get hooked on "heroine." One woman learns that her mother kept all her secrets "in her dairy." Now, maybe the mother kept her secrets out with the cows, but since the "dairy" was in a small box, I kind of think not. Setting aside how painful it was to read this book grammatically, it also disappointed in terms of content. This was no sociological examination. It was the author "translating" the stories of 30+ Russian women, seriatim. The main problem was that the author imposed his voice on every woman. There was no individuality; all the voices sounded the same. If you want insight into the "Cost of Coming to America" (the subtitle of this book) for Russian women who emigrate to the U.S. (oh, and note to the author: When one is leaving one's country, one "emigrates," not "immigrates"), you are probably better off reading an article in, say, Glamour or Marie Claire magazines than you are wasting your time with this book.

Review # 2 was written on 2008-06-21 00:00:00 Sherrie Vangaalen Almost stopped reading at the intro because the author was horribly offensive. Some of the women's stories were compelling but they were all written in the same boring tone and there were hundreds of typos. I sort of can't believe a public library owns this.