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Not sure what to say about this book.
It starts with a very graphic abortion scene and goes from there to the well known "Which of you bitches is my mother?".
A question which the author barely bothers with from there on for the next nigh to six hundred pages. But Conran is a good writer (everything else im about to say put aside) and so she manages to capture and hold reader interest.
However, "Lace" is a troublesome story. In my younger days I may have filed it under "guilty pleasure" but these days I find Conran's cynical view of (male) human sexuality rather disturbing. Sex in "Lace" is not an act of passion or love, and least of all involves respect, it's only a means to establish dominance over another.
Sex and violence go hand in hand in Conran's World, and so it surprises little that when time comes to wrap up the story one feels as if Conran realized on the last leg of her characters journey that one of the female friends is still left unmolested and went to rectify this error.
Rape and sexualized violence are such common occurences in the book that nobody, the author included, gives them much thought, they are treated as inevitable trivialities in the day to day exchange between the genders.
It's certainly no coincidence that the only decent male characters are either impotent, gay or too old to be still interested in sex. Despite the high rating, because it has times when it is truly entertaining, it's not a novel I could easily recommend.
It starts with a very graphic abortion scene and goes from there to the well known "Which of you bitches is my mother?".
A question which the author barely bothers with from there on for the next nigh to six hundred pages. But Conran is a good writer (everything else im about to say put aside) and so she manages to capture and hold reader interest.
However, "Lace" is a troublesome story. In my younger days I may have filed it under "guilty pleasure" but these days I find Conran's cynical view of (male) human sexuality rather disturbing. Sex in "Lace" is not an act of passion or love, and least of all involves respect, it's only a means to establish dominance over another.
Sex and violence go hand in hand in Conran's World, and so it surprises little that when time comes to wrap up the story one feels as if Conran realized on the last leg of her characters journey that one of the female friends is still left unmolested and went to rectify this error.
Rape and sexualized violence are such common occurences in the book that nobody, the author included, gives them much thought, they are treated as inevitable trivialities in the day to day exchange between the genders.
It's certainly no coincidence that the only decent male characters are either impotent, gay or too old to be still interested in sex. Despite the high rating, because it has times when it is truly entertaining, it's not a novel I could easily recommend.