Book Review: The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

SYNOPSIS:
Sylvia Plath's shocking, realistic, and intensely emotional novel about a woman falling into the grip of insanity.
Esther Greenwood is brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under—maybe for the last time. In her acclaimed and enduring masterwork, Sylvia Plath brilliantly draws the reader into Esther's breakdown with such intensity that her insanity becomes palpably real, even rational—as accessible an experience as going to the movies. A deep penetration into the darkest and most harrowing corners of the human psyche, The Bell Jar is an extraordinary accomplishment and a haunting American classic.

MY REVIEW:
Well, after two months of reading this book, it was definitely not what I expected it to be. It was wayyy better! Being a classic, I thought this book was going to be really slow. It actually wasn't, I just was slow at reading it. I'm usually not into stories like this-losing yourself to some disease or addiction. Those types of books normally scare me and I have to put them down. But this book started out like a normal book. By the middle of it, it escalated extremely fast! It was like her at college and then she was falling fast. I didn't get scared with this one like the other ones and that was a plus. The only thing that was scary was that some of the things in this book actually did happen to Sylvia Plath. She ended her life on February 11th, 1963. It was a strange book but it was a good strange. I did not like the ending though. So we will never know if she made it out of the asylum?! Like what the hell! I was so into the ending and all of a sudden... Boom. Done. And then there was me: *slams book and is totally not impressed* Overall, I rated this book a 4/5. I suggest it if you're into classics or fiction.