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3.61 AVERAGE
3.61 AVERAGE
adventurous
funny
hopeful
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
“See… your problems hardly last fifteen minutes once you don’t take no for an answer.”
I’m mystified by all the negative reviews of this book. I get that disjointed musings from messy women with hardly any plot are not for everyone… but are people SO dense that they can’t recognize a cutting sense of humor when they see one?? why are we assuming that women are incapable of reflective self-satirization?
if you understand this book, good for you! if you hate it, keep it to yourself
I’m mystified by all the negative reviews of this book. I get that disjointed musings from messy women with hardly any plot are not for everyone… but are people SO dense that they can’t recognize a cutting sense of humor when they see one?? why are we assuming that women are incapable of reflective self-satirization?
if you understand this book, good for you! if you hate it, keep it to yourself
the cover, title, and the final 20 or so pages are by far the most compelling parts of Sex & Rage. unfortunately, the rest feels lacking in substance beyond being self-referential to Babitz. I don’t mind a plotless story so long as it’s well written, but I found the writing distractingly bad ?? and the characters frustratingly underdeveloped. my favorite moments came at the end, in Jacaranda’s conversations with Wini and Sonia in New York. these exchanges felt the most real and capture something particular about conversations and reflections among women. anyway this is definitely my harshest review to date, so my apologies to Eve, but this was just disappointing
funny
reflective
Did not like this book unfortunately, it reads as though the whole thing is the introduction
She reaaaaally was losing me in the middle there but what a save in the 9th inning. Props.
She also confirms what I already knew, which is that I will never move to LA.
She also confirms what I already knew, which is that I will never move to LA.
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Okay I kinda get it? Definitely not enough sex and rage. Really beautiful writing but also felt like a continuous stream of consciousness with not a lot of resolution.
Song: gypsy by fleetwood mac
Song: gypsy by fleetwood mac