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A review by vi0letsunshine29
Fear of Flying by Erica Jong
1.0
On February 3rd I decided to not finish this book & instead stop on page 108.
I’m quitting this book. I hate it so much and was really gonna push through because it was loaned to me by a friend but I see no literary merit in this book. This pseudo-feminist semi-autobiographical novel from the 70s may have been doing something for the girls during that second wave feminist era but I’m sure the black feminists of the time might have had a different reaction to this one! It’s truly this white woman complaining about how she doesn’t want to fuck her husband anymore and gets herself an impotent boyfriend and she says fuck and cunt a bunch and they just hailed this important feminist literature! I read a review on here calling it bad stand-up and that’s really how this reads, with pretty racist jokes that probably weren’t landing in the 70s either! I can’t believe I even read as much as I did I wish I could get that time back. This is the first time I’ve given a one star review and I hope to god I never read a horrid book like this again so I don’t have to give another 1 star review! Anyways happy black history month and if we are gonna read feminist literature from the 1970s let’s read more black women authors!
I’m quitting this book. I hate it so much and was really gonna push through because it was loaned to me by a friend but I see no literary merit in this book. This pseudo-feminist semi-autobiographical novel from the 70s may have been doing something for the girls during that second wave feminist era but I’m sure the black feminists of the time might have had a different reaction to this one! It’s truly this white woman complaining about how she doesn’t want to fuck her husband anymore and gets herself an impotent boyfriend and she says fuck and cunt a bunch and they just hailed this important feminist literature! I read a review on here calling it bad stand-up and that’s really how this reads, with pretty racist jokes that probably weren’t landing in the 70s either! I can’t believe I even read as much as I did I wish I could get that time back. This is the first time I’ve given a one star review and I hope to god I never read a horrid book like this again so I don’t have to give another 1 star review! Anyways happy black history month and if we are gonna read feminist literature from the 1970s let’s read more black women authors!