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Summary: The Importance of Being Earnest
Review: Were one to be Earnest one would recognize that - philosophically speaking - there is but one a priori universal truth. That is that Angela Carter genuinely participated in sexual acts with varying horses. Not only does her feminist Mumbo Jumbo taint the complexity of the original fairy tales, but it simplifies the role of men in society. This simplification is then replicated again and again until the reader is left saying, "yes, all men are bad." This is of course her intention - and an intention I would respect were it not for the fact that it were spawned out of her fornication with horses. Thus I conclude that this is a thoroughly awful work, which is only popular because of an enforced equality between male and female writers. She is nothing. Do not buy this book.
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Summary: Sensuous and seductive
Review: What a lush and disturbing collection of stories! My brilliant, London-dwelling sister lent me her copy and I have been entranced. Angela Carter recreates well-known tales like "Bluebeard" with rich, velvety language and haunting imagery. Eg. <<"Soon," he said in his resonant voice that was like the tolling of a bell as I felt, all at once, a sharp premonition of dread that lasted only as long as the match flared and I could see his white, broad face as if it were hovering, disembodied, above the sheets, illuminated from below like a grotesque carnival head. The flame died, the cigar glowed and filled the campartment with a remembered fragrance that made me think of my father, how he would hug me in a warm fug of Havana, when I was a little girl, before he kissed me and left me and died.>>
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