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I'm dropping it.
Started the book after a friend recommended it in a stormy discussion about where are all those well-written books with good sex for grown up women who don't want to read about Lolitas or 80s SM-pretend.
It started promising (the opening scene is well written, explicit and catchy) but then became... boring. Sporadic sex teasers and a lot of naivish leftist politics trying to sound like post-cultural studies. Plus irritating attempts to be oh so clever (throwing sharp phrases about the Holocaust and racism in between erotic divagations hitting the reader indeed, by the sheer contrast..).
And when it comes to sex, it still is (anyone who read it all - will it change?) not satisfactory. At least it's not as offensive to women who think as all those new literary versions of Lolita. Still, it only reveals the world of clever though frustrated, maturing though not there yet, men.
To sum up:
+4 stars for good writing
-2 stars for not the best sex
-1 star for not finishing it
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Started the book after a friend recommended it in a stormy discussion about where are all those well-written books with good sex for grown up women who don't want to read about Lolitas or 80s SM-pretend.
It started promising (the opening scene is well written, explicit and catchy) but then became... boring. Sporadic sex teasers and a lot of naivish leftist politics trying to sound like post-cultural studies. Plus irritating attempts to be oh so clever (throwing sharp phrases about the Holocaust and racism in between erotic divagations hitting the reader indeed, by the sheer contrast..).
And when it comes to sex, it still is (anyone who read it all - will it change?) not satisfactory. At least it's not as offensive to women who think as all those new literary versions of Lolita. Still, it only reveals the world of clever though frustrated, maturing though not there yet, men.
To sum up:
+4 stars for good writing
-2 stars for not the best sex
-1 star for not finishing it
reply | edit | delete | flag *
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Reading Progress
Started Reading
September 1, 2013
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Finished Reading
September 27, 2013
– Shelved
I started reading it after a friend recommended it in a stormy discussion about where are all those well-written books with good sex for grown up women who don't want to read about Lolitas or 80s SM-pretend.
It started promising (the opening scene is well written, satisfactorily explicit and catchy) but then became... boring. Sporadic sex teasers and a lot of naivish leftist politics trying to sound like post-cultural studies. Plus irritating attempts to be oh so clever (throwing sharp phrases about the Holocaust and racism in between erotic divagations hitting the reader indeed, by the sheer contrast..).
And when it comes to sex, it still is (anyone who read it all - will it change?) not for grown-up women past their frustrated and uncertain phases. (At least it's not as offensive as all those new literary versions of Lolita - and shows a whole new world of clever though frustrated, maturing though not there yet, male intellectuals).
To sum up:
+4 stars for good writing
-2 stars for not the best sex
-1 star for not finishing it