Lizzie Borden
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Lizzie Borden
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Narrated by:
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Rozanne Devine
About this listen
A hundred years ago, it was the trial of the century. A young woman stood accused of brutally murdering her father and stepmother in a crime so heinous that it became a benchmark in human tragedy.
A hundred years later, the Lizzie Borden case still resounds in the imagination. There are those who staunchly defend Lizzie's innocence while others vehemently declare that she did it and that the murder was justified.
In Elizabeth Engstrom's brilliant novel, the dark psychology of the Borden household is laid bare. Lizzie; her sister, Emma, and their parents, Andrew and Abby Borden, are sharply illuminated - as are the paranoia and concealed hatred that secretly ruled the family. Domestic violence and dysfunctional families are not inventions of modern times.
©1991, 1997, 2011 Elizabeth Engstrom (P)2015 Elizabeth EngstromI wouldn't bother
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According to this account, Lizzie had two ongoing lesbian affairs within the small town of Fall River, and her sister Emma was a drunk. In an attempt to explain the murders, the author tries to show Lizzie experiencing a dissociative fugue state. Except this only happens when Lizzie is experiencing emotional distress that she manages by sneaking into the barn and masturbating. Sounds legit, right? And in some instances, instead of being in a fugue state, she’s actually in two places at once. For example, one time she’s in the bath and dissociates, and encounters her sister in the town. But when her sister comes home, she’s shocked to find Lizzie has been able to get home, run a bath, wash herself, empty the bath and get dressed in the time since they saw each other. So obviously, this wasn’t a fugue state, Lizzie was in two places at once.
So instead of a genuine but rare mental condition, the murders occur due to some supernatural force. Again, sounds legit.
Documented aspects of the murders are completely ignored. For example, Lizzie removes her father’s boots before killing him, despite crime scene photos showing the body with its boots on. And Lizzie and her sister had convinced their father to buy a place in town that they rented from him; this goes against the narrative in the book.
Apart from taking a serious event and turning it into a book featuring lesbianism, supernatural events, frequent masturbation and Andrew Borden regularly using a prostitute, this book was terribly written. Dialogue was stilted, description was like being hit with a blunt object (pun intended) and movement between scenes was amateurish, to say the least.
To top it off, listening to it as an audiobook, you’re subjected to what is possibly the worst narrator I’ve ever come across.
Put it down and walk away. Seriously.
Worst narrator ever and such a stupid story.
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