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Summary: A thirty year journey that is true today in 2003!!!
Review: I saw the book in one of those big franchise book stores and the cover caught my eye, white with a zipper half unzipped revealing red underneath. Now that I have read "Fear of Flying" the cover seems very symbolic and provacative just like the book.From the dedication to the afterword I was captivated by this book, a true literary work about a woman seeking self. It is not a chick lit book but true literature. I couldn't beleive I missed this book all my life, I am in my early thirties and had never heard about it but wish I had it starting in my teens. Every woman, every man should read this book it gives great insight on the insecurities of women. From sentence one I felt like Isadora Zelda White Wing spoke to me of my own doubts and emotional struggles. All of a sudden I was not alone...I was not lost, her journey was mine and mine hers. This book was about getting your passion back along with your identity, not sex or fantasies as so many want to dwell on. Although she is very candid about her sexual exploits(Isadora's) and the language is very forward but its relevent to the story. As a woman, I can say that the idea of the zipless f...k has had an appeal but after reading her encounters with Dr. Goodlove you have to re-address your impulses and figure out what you really are looking for. I think that was the true teaching of this book........find out who you really are not what or who defines you.
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Summary: This is an exceptional woman
Review: Isadora is not representative of the masses of women; she is an exceptional woman: one that we all secretly want to be. She dares to live the desires that we all crave, and fear. She returns our humanity to us, our right to choose pleasure and the position on top. Men with short dividends, beware! This book will outlive the third millennium, as will Sappho. The book is utterly compelling; I read it from cover to cover six times before I could put it down. It is one book you won't want to miss! Erica Jong deserves the Nobel Prize for her pioneering work of rediscovering and defining the feminine soul.
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Summary: Not Afraid Anymore
Review: Isadora Wing, the ever-fearful, paranoid, and sexual heroine of FEAR OF FLYING, is a woman all women either know or recognise part of her in themeselves. While at a psychiatrists conference with her husband, Isadora engages in an affair with another psychiatrist which eventually leads to her ability to liberate herself. The bubble gum category that seems to be sprawling through bookstores these days is "chic lit." This rather vacuous literature has nothing on Jong's amazing style and candid method of writing. Jong's heroine is well read, eduacted and a true writer: scattered, mentally tortured and non-committal, yet very likeable. As we read the adventures of Isadora we can see a once weak woman begin to discover herself. This book is both empowering, entertaining and well-written....And that is 30 years after its publication date!
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Summary: Kept me turning the pages....
Review: It was interesting and empowering because it echoed what goes through women's minds. Maybe we wouldn't have made the same choices that this woman did but it was refreshing to read a book where a woman made exotic choices, lived through them and became strengthened in the end.
This book is a worthwhile read for those who are interested in seeing a woman lose herself in order to find herself.
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Summary: Use Your Fear to Fly
Review: This is a wonderful book for young ladies and women to read, beginning at 15 years old, because by this age girls question what it means to be women. And because their mothers didn't have the opportunities that are now available to us, this book is a wonderful place for women to explore their own thoughts about who to be. Isadora, the protagonists in this story, represents every woman at some time in our lives, searching for our own definition of what it means to be a woman. She struggles with unfinished business with her mom, as well as with each of her sisters, who insist that she be a mirror of them. Unlike many stories from the classics, Isadora doesn't die in the end, nor is she locked away from her desire to find her own definition of who she is. She realizes through new decisions that she makes, after she acts out her fantasies, that it is self-destructive to count upon other people's concept of who she should be, and what her desires should be. This novel moves quickly, is humorous, and very engaging. Another point that makes this novel so unique is that with eroticism as a strong part in this book, it has substance, and many life lessons to teach anyone who is open to explore her or his reality. Also, while this book does offer many lessons for women, rather than marking passages, and showing it to the men in our lives, I recommended that those parts that mean the most to you become the parts that you study so that you demonstrate what matters most to you ' he will be more receptive by this method.
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Summary: Man, You People Are So Serious!
Review: What's all the analysis about? Read it and either you like it or not. Some parts you like, some you might not. If you're not likin what you're readin then get rid of it. Get on with what you can read. This book is an excellent ride. Genuinely unique insight and well written.
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