The Asylum For Wayward Victorian Girls (2009) - Plot & Excerpts
It is all fine and dandy that the artist puts there heart into something IF the content and final result is good - I am actually going to quote someone here (Janny) was spot on regarding this book and its author."But that's when I realized our dear author/character had an obsession. With herself. Why do I say this? Let me counts thy ways:- She mentions her goddamn stockings almost every chapter. She can hang herself with them any yet the nurses let her wear them? What's that about? Surely the nurses who made sure to take everything potentially harmful from her would know better than to leave her those stockings. I smell a lie. - She says the following: "telling the whole story never helps; it only confuses the brilliant minds in charge of this health of mine." So our dear character thinks herself above trained professionals. Narcissistic much?- 26 pages (!) are spent on drawings/writings with a crayon and describing how a creepy doctor hits on her. The reason she fails to report him? I have no goddamn idea. She says she was raped in the past, for god's sake, so why the hell doesn't she do anything about it?! I have a sneaking suspicion it's because she just likes the attention. Because why else would she purposefully engage him in conversation instead of ignore or report him?- She says - and I am not kidding you, this is actually in the book: "it's possible that I'm becoming accustomed to being insane that I'm doing it prettily and with style."And there it is folks, the milking of the disease for the sake of looking pretty and stylish. Nice. What a great middle finger to everyone out there who's actually sick.- A few pages after this she placed a pic of her modelling a shirt that says "Lithium Chick". Again, what a way to milk a mental disease.- One entire page is just three locks of pink hair. I'm not even sure what to say about this, except WTF was she thinking? People pay for this book. They spend money on this thing, and they expected writing, not wannabe artsy pictures. - Did I mention that the book is filled with pictures of herself? With stuff like "boys + heart = scissors". Jesus, is she 12 years old? And then there's the misinformation and just plain stupidity. She considers the people working in the institution as, and I quote directly from the book, "captors". She's the one who admitted herself to the ward, being fully aware of what that entails. But the second she can't get her way, it's name-calling and brooding. She actually says this: "I consider stabbing myself in the neck with my pen just to get revenge", when she's offered to write on sheets of paper instead of her spiral notebook. Jesus Christ.She also says this: "as an asexual" Ummm... really? She admitted plenty of times in the book that she had lovers and had sex, and that makes an asexual not. Not even close."[electroshock therapy ] is not pretty, they say. It's not even humane." Who? Who told her this absolute stupidly? ECT is relatively painless (they numb you up before the procedure) and has helped countless of people who suffer from depression or bipolar disorder. This whole book is full of rambles, paragraphs that are big as half the page that go absolutely nowhere. It's basically just the account of a narcissistic woman who sounds like the only thing that upsets her is that in the psych ward she's treated like a normal person and not this star she imagines herself to be.And I know the other half is also that story with "the other Emily", but let's be honest. That's even dumber that the main focus of the book. I wish I could give this clusterfuck of a book half a star, because it's just a giant mess." I have been a long time fan of Emilie Autumn now and finally got around to reading this book. I absolutely loved it! It's a nice blend of fiction and non-fiction. One part of the book tells you more about what Emilie goes through living with bipolar disorder and the other part is about a made up character named Emily with a 'y' living in the Victorian days that gets sent to the Asylum For Wayward Victorian Girls. It was an addicting read and I'd definitely recommend it.
What do You think about The Asylum For Wayward Victorian Girls (2009)?
Great book for any fan of Emilie Autumn. Great story telling.
—Peaches
