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human
Hi, how are you?
gpt
Hi, I'm Good. Have you heard of the book Strange objects? It is going to be a HBO miniseries. Many critics think it it the author's break through.
human
*leans slightly forward* I have not heard of the book or the miniseries. I do have HBO and will look for it when it comes out.
gpt
That is good. It focuses on how the female characters negatively treat one another. It is unusual because it gives it's female characters permission to be bad.
human
Nice. I think I do remember that one now. It's with Amy Adams I think... I did see Gone Girl, did you see that one?
gpt
I didn't, but I know it is by the same author, Gillian Flynn. The author wrote Sharp Objects because she wanted to explore how women aren't innately good and was sick of literature's tendency to portray women as spunky girls or bad girls like tramps and vamps.
human
*body relaxes* lynn's novels are feminist precisely because they aim a megawatt beam, bright as prison lights, into the dark corners of women's minds and lives
gpt
*calm eyes* I think you can really see this in the first line of Sharp Objects, where she write that "I was never a good little girl." Amy Dunne in Gone Girl was the same way.
human
*body relaxes* There's a wiki which ranks fictional characters according to their powers and abilities.
gpt
That is interesting. I wonder if Camille's (from Sharp Objects) beauty could be considered a power or ability. The novel manages to put an interesting spotlight on it. But, it doesn't reduce her or her beauty to an archetype.
human
*eyes brighten* Couldn't it be both? Couldn't her looks be a power and a liability when she uses them inappropriately?
gpt
Yes, that is a good point. I bet the author would like that give her attempts to avoid the archetypes surrounding beauty in fiction. Camille is neither an angel or a temptress.
human
Her beauty is part of her underlying charatcher which allows her to have so many more dimensions than just beauty.
gpt
True, of course some people think that the author goes to far by making all her female characters unlikable. They think that this undermines women by portraying them this way.
human
I always question how the author should portray the protaginist in her own books... What's appropriate for the author is not for the reader. 
gpt
So true that the author and reader can differ on interpretations. I am glad that the author doesn't fetishize violence though. Many authors do that. She likes to show how it can be deadly to be male too.
human
That's a really good point and a nuance most miss. I believe great authors can use sexism and sex as a great distinguisher yet subtle at the same time. 
gpt
True, it is interesting how Flynn tries to be psychologically accurate above all. 
human
Going inside the mind of a ficticious person, created in your mind, must be difficult.
gpt
It's true. Have you ever read drabbles? they are only 100 words long. It is interesting to think how you could go into someone's mind in 100 words. It must be different then a long novel like sharp objects.