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lmmhoosier 's review for:
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
by Jeanette Winterson
I appreciate the real-life sentiment behind this story, but goodness is it a mess.
The writing style is very stream of consciousness, and it feels as if editing wasn't involved at all in the process of this book coming to fruition. Paragraphs went on for WAY too long. I'm also sure there are parts I would have understood better had I a better grasp of older British English and references to classic literature.
The story was also very disjointed. More often than not, I had no clue what was going on. Especially towards the end, small fairy-tale stories were thrown into the mix; I eventually skipped over them.
However, Winterson's semi-autobiographical story offers an important voice on religion and sexuality, particularly when the two are so intertwined with one another. I hope that her actual autobiography is handled much better than it is here.
Although this book is fairly short, it felt like a chore to get through. I didn't have the energy to keep going, I just wanted it to be over.
The writing style is very stream of consciousness, and it feels as if editing wasn't involved at all in the process of this book coming to fruition. Paragraphs went on for WAY too long. I'm also sure there are parts I would have understood better had I a better grasp of older British English and references to classic literature.
The story was also very disjointed. More often than not, I had no clue what was going on. Especially towards the end, small fairy-tale stories were thrown into the mix; I eventually skipped over them.
However, Winterson's semi-autobiographical story offers an important voice on religion and sexuality, particularly when the two are so intertwined with one another. I hope that her actual autobiography is handled much better than it is here.
Although this book is fairly short, it felt like a chore to get through. I didn't have the energy to keep going, I just wanted it to be over.