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3.49 AVERAGE
3.49 AVERAGE
Wat een leuk, grappig, opwindend, gelaagd, plat, diepgaand, ontroerend en groot opgezet boek. Het creëren van leven in alle opzichten, het loskomen van het sterfelijk lichaam met alle risico's van dien, hilarische passages met een sekspop, die honderden bladzijden later zelfs weet te ontroeren. Kortom, Jeanette Winterson creëert leven in de meest bizarre, levenloze personages. Met veelplezier en bewondering gelezen. Wel een rare titel.
dark
emotional
informative
mysterious
reflective
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Could have been an interesting book. The story and the charactes have great potential. However, I find the writing style dull.
challenging
reflective
medium-paced
funny
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
The narrative perspectives were really interesting, i liked that the reader was trusted to put the connections together and some things were kept vague.
I really liked Ry as a more timid narrator that was kept in the background even tho he participated in the conversations.
Not something I usually go for but I really enjoyed this fast-paced, funny read.
I really liked Ry as a more timid narrator that was kept in the background even tho he participated in the conversations.
Not something I usually go for but I really enjoyed this fast-paced, funny read.
adventurous
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
she invented a new genre of chaser!
loooook i really thought i would love this and i did enjoy the concept but i found alot of the dialogue really cringe.
and dont get me started on the offensive portrayal of transmasculinity. i actually am gonna look at this in good faith because i like Jeanette winterson and her work, i think she didn't do enough research into anything about the trans experience. its little things i caught like when she said that Ry's nipples got MORE sensitive after surgery 😭. and i actually didn't wanna continue reading when she had Ry basically say hrt makes you die younger and get more ill like this is so irresponsible to write into your trans narrative. not to mention the weirdddd way Victor treated Ry and like Ry basically just puts up with it and idk books don't need to be morally right but idk it just pisses me off because nothing really comes of it.
TW MENTION OF RAPE:
the rape scene was so incredibly unnecessary too. i think she was trying to portray it that basically trans men are actually still women and therefore destined to be victims of male violence??
this book reeeeeeks of bioesentiallism and its so weird having this narrative about Ry in constant contrast to the feminist narrative about Mary Shelley. gave me whiplash tbh
i found alot of the AI stuff really interesting and i do really like Winterson's style of writing so there were parts that were really compelling, I liked the ideas that she was exploring through the existence of Victor as an entity conjured up through fiction. maybe if the book focused more on developing that story line instead of the love story and offensive trans narrative I'd have liked this book more !
also lol complete sidenote but when she mentioned Three Cocks i gasped cus thats the village next to mine 😭 so i kept imagining Ron speaking in the local accent and i think thats why i found all his dialogue super cringey
loooook i really thought i would love this and i did enjoy the concept but i found alot of the dialogue really cringe.
and dont get me started on the offensive portrayal of transmasculinity. i actually am gonna look at this in good faith because i like Jeanette winterson and her work, i think she didn't do enough research into anything about the trans experience. its little things i caught like when she said that Ry's nipples got MORE sensitive after surgery 😭. and i actually didn't wanna continue reading when she had Ry basically say hrt makes you die younger and get more ill like this is so irresponsible to write into your trans narrative. not to mention the weirdddd way Victor treated Ry and like Ry basically just puts up with it and idk books don't need to be morally right but idk it just pisses me off because nothing really comes of it.
TW MENTION OF RAPE:
the rape scene was so incredibly unnecessary too. i think she was trying to portray it that basically trans men are actually still women and therefore destined to be victims of male violence??
this book reeeeeeks of bioesentiallism and its so weird having this narrative about Ry in constant contrast to the feminist narrative about Mary Shelley. gave me whiplash tbh
i found alot of the AI stuff really interesting and i do really like Winterson's style of writing so there were parts that were really compelling, I liked the ideas that she was exploring through the existence of Victor as an entity conjured up through fiction. maybe if the book focused more on developing that story line instead of the love story and offensive trans narrative I'd have liked this book more !
also lol complete sidenote but when she mentioned Three Cocks i gasped cus thats the village next to mine 😭 so i kept imagining Ron speaking in the local accent and i think thats why i found all his dialogue super cringey
Content Warnings
Graphic: Rape, Transphobia
This is a genre I don’t usually choose but I saw it on the “new books” shelf at my library and decided to give it a try. I actually really liked it even though it was science-fiction. I didn’t feel like it was too hard to understand, the science fiction parts I mean, and I liked the back story of Mary Shelley and her husband that she included. It was definitely not like anything I have read before but it was smart and funny and different and I liked the characters. I’ll be thinking about this book and it’s themes for quite a while
maybe was a mistake to read this while sick as its all swirled a bit in my memory. loved the bringing together of ideas around ai, frankenstein, gender, sexuality, the future..
What the fuck did I just read? How the fuck did this get published? And, in what fucking universe does shit like this get longlisted for an award? There’s some small justice in that this travesty of fiction didn’t make the Booker shortlist, but that it got published – and that anybody feels it worth celebrating – is still a mystery.
I hated this book.
Let’s start with the surface flaws. This is a badly written book. Badly written, boring, pretentious, stream-of-consciousness nonsense. It’s not just bad, it’s comically bad, as if Jeanette Winterson were trying to make some kind of meta-statement with the narrative – except it would be a mistake to suggest that Frankissstein is that clever. The characters range from lame to offensive, and the dialogue from banal to ridiculous. It’s almost like Winterson were trying to anticipate the kind of writing that an artificially created hybrid life-form would construct except, again, the book is not that clever.
I loathed this book.
To go deeper – and, honestly, nothing about this book is what I would call deep – this is a grossly offensive, embarrassingly (and possibly dangerously) transphobic story. It trivializes being transgender as a whimsical choice, and fetishizes the entire transgender community as genital hybrids. To add insult to injury, Winterson tosses around pronouns like they’re randomly interchangeable, repeatedly deadnames the transgender protagonist, and heaps so much harassment on them (including repeated violent assaults) that you have no choice but to assume it’s the author’s own bias coming through.
I despised this book.
As for the sci-fi aspects of sex robots and human consciousness, they’re so badly handled that they’d be the most embarrassing part of any other novel. When we’re not being bored to tears with factoid info dumps we’re being completely grossed out by a vulgar millionaire who is only slightly less offensive than the book’s rapist boyfriend. Honestly, I’ve read trashy sexbot spankbank erotica that was more intelligent and tasteful than this. Even the lame, hamfisted attempts to further the faith-versus-science themes in Frankenstein and its literary contemporaries is rendered ridiculous and toothless through the mocking, racist caricature of an evangelical woman.
Did I mention I hate this book?
Because I did.
With a vengeance.
https://femledfantasy.home.blog/2019/10/14/book-review-frankissstein-by-jeanette-winterson/
I hated this book.
Let’s start with the surface flaws. This is a badly written book. Badly written, boring, pretentious, stream-of-consciousness nonsense. It’s not just bad, it’s comically bad, as if Jeanette Winterson were trying to make some kind of meta-statement with the narrative – except it would be a mistake to suggest that Frankissstein is that clever. The characters range from lame to offensive, and the dialogue from banal to ridiculous. It’s almost like Winterson were trying to anticipate the kind of writing that an artificially created hybrid life-form would construct except, again, the book is not that clever.
I loathed this book.
To go deeper – and, honestly, nothing about this book is what I would call deep – this is a grossly offensive, embarrassingly (and possibly dangerously) transphobic story. It trivializes being transgender as a whimsical choice, and fetishizes the entire transgender community as genital hybrids. To add insult to injury, Winterson tosses around pronouns like they’re randomly interchangeable, repeatedly deadnames the transgender protagonist, and heaps so much harassment on them (including repeated violent assaults) that you have no choice but to assume it’s the author’s own bias coming through.
I despised this book.
As for the sci-fi aspects of sex robots and human consciousness, they’re so badly handled that they’d be the most embarrassing part of any other novel. When we’re not being bored to tears with factoid info dumps we’re being completely grossed out by a vulgar millionaire who is only slightly less offensive than the book’s rapist boyfriend. Honestly, I’ve read trashy sexbot spankbank erotica that was more intelligent and tasteful than this. Even the lame, hamfisted attempts to further the faith-versus-science themes in Frankenstein and its literary contemporaries is rendered ridiculous and toothless through the mocking, racist caricature of an evangelical woman.
Did I mention I hate this book?
Because I did.
With a vengeance.
https://femledfantasy.home.blog/2019/10/14/book-review-frankissstein-by-jeanette-winterson/