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3.8 AVERAGE
3.8 AVERAGE
challenging
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This was another assigned book. While it’s not the worse one I’ve had to read this semester, it was not the greatest.
Honestly, even though I just finished the book a few minutes ago, I can’t quite grasp what happened. The book was very confusing and there were so many characters that it was hard to follow. Also, the novel jumped around a lot in time so it was difficult to know if I was reading something in the future or the present.
There was funny moments that had me laughing, but it doesn’t warrant another attempt at reading.
Honestly, even though I just finished the book a few minutes ago, I can’t quite grasp what happened. The book was very confusing and there were so many characters that it was hard to follow. Also, the novel jumped around a lot in time so it was difficult to know if I was reading something in the future or the present.
There was funny moments that had me laughing, but it doesn’t warrant another attempt at reading.
adventurous
funny
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
It is a creative mix of fantasy, in an easy to read format.
challenging
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Really weird. I think is what people mean when they describe books as poetic.
Sexing the Cherry reads like the erratic internal ramblings of a teenager, and I think I liked it?
Some of the tangents lost me a little, but all the little spots of plot were fun and interesting (as long as you are willing to let go of any desire for them to make sense).
It's both sexual and childish and at times profound.
Don't really know what I think. A book of nursery rhymes crossed with Tudor history crossed with the politics of feminism? Fair enough.
I'm starting this off by saying I had to read this book for a Modern Fiction course. Based on the blurb, I wouldn't have voluntarily picked this book up. Although it did not pique my interest, I have to add a disclaimer that it is simply not the type of story I enjoy reading. Besides that, I can see how people enjoyed it. The characters had a complexity to them, same with the plot(which was rather...interesting), that I did not expect. The author did a phenomenal job writing this story. I don't think I could've gotten through it if the writing had been horrible. Overall, I give it 3 stars simply because I did not find any interest in reading it but the writing partly made up for that fact. If you enjoy magical realism and complex plots, this is for you.
adventurous
reflective
medium-paced
adventurous
challenging
funny
mysterious
medium-paced
A kaleidoscope of myths and stories spanning time and space, that slowly (but increasingly jarringly) coalesce into something solid and mysterious. Its a dense book that will certainly reward contemplation but has, at this moment, left me reeling and wanting to watch the twentieth rerun of The One Where Joey Puts a Turkey On His Head. Probably best tackled in multiple sessions.
Ostensibly it's a story about two characters. Dog Woman is a grotesquely proportioned dog breeder and fighter. Bawdy and brawling, she is also endlessly loving, and endlessly in fear of losing the only real love she has known. Her son, Jordan, is levelheaded, scientific and dreams of travel (and in dreaming, travels). He endlessly pursues the princess of his dreams and the love which escapes him. Ostensibly.
Initially it is a little difficult to follow or, at the very least, hard to picture. The imagery is plastic and warbling: proportions shift, time shifts, places shift, identities shift and perhaps most unexpectedly, tone shifts. What starts as fantastically ribald and humorously violent eventually becomes much more metaphysical and meditative. Its a strange beast, and I would be lying if I said I "got" it. There was a moment - around the time when the titular cherry is introduced - where I felt that the meaning of it all was starting to fall into place. The following chapters were a swift kick to the nuts.
In these final chapters everything is pulled together with such speed, that, like the optical illusion, bird and cage are finally united and we get a glimpse the real narrative. Its impressively dizzying and - despite what that might suggest - never feels rushed. But it is also my only (sort of) complaint: it moves at such a clip it gets a bit overwhelming. Having just a bit more space to let some of the denser passages breathe would have been welcome, but I appreciate that would have lessened the effect. As it is, being impressively dizzied feels awfully close to being assaulted.
One to read again.
Ostensibly it's a story about two characters. Dog Woman is a grotesquely proportioned dog breeder and fighter. Bawdy and brawling, she is also endlessly loving, and endlessly in fear of losing the only real love she has known. Her son, Jordan, is levelheaded, scientific and dreams of travel (and in dreaming, travels). He endlessly pursues the princess of his dreams and the love which escapes him. Ostensibly.
Initially it is a little difficult to follow or, at the very least, hard to picture. The imagery is plastic and warbling: proportions shift, time shifts, places shift, identities shift and perhaps most unexpectedly, tone shifts. What starts as fantastically ribald and humorously violent eventually becomes much more metaphysical and meditative. Its a strange beast, and I would be lying if I said I "got" it. There was a moment - around the time when the titular cherry is introduced - where I felt that the meaning of it all was starting to fall into place. The following chapters were a swift kick to the nuts.
In these final chapters everything is pulled together with such speed, that, like the optical illusion, bird and cage are finally united and we get a glimpse the real narrative. Its impressively dizzying and - despite what that might suggest - never feels rushed. But it is also my only (sort of) complaint: it moves at such a clip it gets a bit overwhelming. Having just a bit more space to let some of the denser passages breathe would have been welcome, but I appreciate that would have lessened the effect. As it is, being impressively dizzied feels awfully close to being assaulted.
One to read again.