A review by freddie
Fear of Dying by Erica Jong

4.0

The book is both smart and stupid - makes sense since it reads like the main character narrating her thoughts as events happen, so certain reflections sound profound and wholesome while some others just come across as shallow. For a book with a plot concerning a woman who, in the face of many impending deaths around her, experiences need to feel alive by exploring more sex, there is surprisingly little sex and lots of philosophising. The almost fetishization of a foreign culture in the last chapter is problematic to me, however. But overall I was entertained by the book - with its crude and self-deprecating humor.