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ofbooksandtrees 's review for:
Sexing The Cherry
by Jeanette Winterson
I liked the part with the story on The Twelve Dancing Princesses, but the rest of Sexing the cherry wasn’t really my cup of tea, I think.
A lot of it felt like I was reading someone’s dream. Strange things moving into other strange things and maybe to the dreamer everything made complete sense, but to me as a reader I kept having this feeling of just not quite getting it.
I also feel like it was trying to do to many things for such a short book (it’s only 167 pages long.) It had some really great moments, but then they weren’t explored to their full extend. They would just move on to something else and I guess that’s where it comes back to the confusing dream feeling.
It also had some WTF moments, especially related to sex. Now I don’t mind some sex in a book, but a woman biting off someone’s penis, trying to eat it, not liking it and feeding it to her dogs & A man having sex with a pig? Yeah no thanks..
A lot of it felt like I was reading someone’s dream. Strange things moving into other strange things and maybe to the dreamer everything made complete sense, but to me as a reader I kept having this feeling of just not quite getting it.
I also feel like it was trying to do to many things for such a short book (it’s only 167 pages long.) It had some really great moments, but then they weren’t explored to their full extend. They would just move on to something else and I guess that’s where it comes back to the confusing dream feeling.
It also had some WTF moments, especially related to sex. Now I don’t mind some sex in a book, but a woman biting off someone’s penis, trying to eat it, not liking it and feeding it to her dogs & A man having sex with a pig? Yeah no thanks..