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3.8 AVERAGE
3.8 AVERAGE
challenging
emotional
funny
reflective
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I just found out this last month, that I love Jeanette winterson and this book is in parts brilliant. It is a bit slow and to witty for me in parts, but I probably will reread it some time and there are some of the best lines in there I’ve ever read.
The first book I have ever read of its kind. Earlier this summer I read Winterson's Art Objects and I loved what she wrote about the author's job being to push her language into the future, so when I picked up this book I was eager to see how she went about doing that (or if she did). Sexing the Cherry obeys no rules of fiction that I am familiar with, and throughout the book I kept thinking to myself 'I didn't know it was possible to write like this.' In some ways the book reads like a Haruki Murakami story in that reality and fantasy work side by side, but it also goes beyond Murakami's work and takes on a complete dreamlike quality that I want more of. Time is relative, narrator is relative, even setting is unstable. You can never be quite sure who is speaking and where you are in time and place, and that creates an effect of distilled reality that I am still trying to understand. I'm going to be rereading this book several times because I don't think I can digest all it contains, or even a fraction of what it contains, in one pass. There's a lot to take apart here, but I am already in love.
I have absolutely no idea what was going on in this book. Really.
It was funny and pretty. I don't need there to be a deeper meaning or thesis every time I read a book; I just thought this one was sweet and it entertained me.
I don't know what to do with this... It seems like time and space just don't exist. Some very beautiful and striking images. Some thought provoking retellings and parodies. But I'm still not sure what I'm being asked to do as a reader. This requires a rereading I think.
Poate 2 * 1/2.
Nu mi-a plăcut mai nimic la cartea asta. Din păcate, nu mi-am făcut temele ca lumea, știam că vreau să citesc o carte de JW cu ceva fruct în titlu, dar era vorba de portocale, nu de cireși... Mhh. Portocalele rămîn pe listă, romanele ei, dacă sînt în genul Sexului cireșilor, nu mersi, nu mă pasionează.
Cartea mi s-a părut scrisă slăbuț, scăldate 17 stiluri, putea mai mult, nu știu exact ce nu mi-a plăcut. Mi s-a părut simplistă a la Coelho și Eric Emmanuel Schmitt, care EES are un milion de 5 * pe gudridț. Da nu de la mine.
JW, ne vedem la ceva autobiografic, bine?
PS Zero typos, wow. :) #humanitas #sepoate (citesc întîmplător tot ceva de la Humanitas acum și am găsit cîteva typos deja.)
Nu mi-a plăcut mai nimic la cartea asta. Din păcate, nu mi-am făcut temele ca lumea, știam că vreau să citesc o carte de JW cu ceva fruct în titlu, dar era vorba de portocale, nu de cireși... Mhh. Portocalele rămîn pe listă, romanele ei, dacă sînt în genul Sexului cireșilor, nu mersi, nu mă pasionează.
Cartea mi s-a părut scrisă slăbuț, scăldate 17 stiluri, putea mai mult, nu știu exact ce nu mi-a plăcut. Mi s-a părut simplistă a la Coelho și Eric Emmanuel Schmitt, care EES are un milion de 5 * pe gudridț. Da nu de la mine.
JW, ne vedem la ceva autobiografic, bine?
PS Zero typos, wow. :) #humanitas #sepoate (citesc întîmplător tot ceva de la Humanitas acum și am găsit cîteva typos deja.)
maybe i didnt like it bc it was hard for me to understand but :/ yeah
funny
inspiring
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I'm a little stumped by what to write about this book. The narrated woman's voice in the early part of the book was a little rough going. I enjoy a fairy tale but sometimes it got a little too over-the-top and schizophrenic for me. Either it grew on me or she became more coherent because I felt that was less so by the end of the book. She does a masterful job of weaving it all together in the end.
Some of the bits on sex roles are quite hysterical as well (esp the rule book about men)
Some of the bits on sex roles are quite hysterical as well (esp the rule book about men)