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Summary: This book is horrible!
Review: Pretentious...confusing...annoying. It should be illegal to write a book that is this bad. Absolute drivel. Do something better with your time...like mow the lawn or cut your toenails.
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Summary: Read it, but don't buy it!
Review: Read this book to see the author vomit her arrogance. The book is a frustrating, misinformed, pedantic flurry of anger, which leaves neither space for enlightenment about gender problems nor a sense that the reader is better prepared for the social realities of the issue. Still, Winterson is fearless and is taking herself VERY seriously.
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Summary: The Worst
Review: Reading this book was one of the least satisfying uses of time in my life. It was as fun as eating fish gone bad. It's memory still haunts me. I would suggest picking a much better book.
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Summary: Fabulous title for a disappointingly sparse book
Review: Sexing the Cherry has a fabulous title and compelling conceit. But the book's sparseness and "drop off" ending are a disappointment. As a feminist tract, the book is more disturbing in its descent into fantasy violence against the characters (read villains/hypocrites) perceived to be championing the status quo. Rape and physical intimidation have always been the weapons used by the empowered to maintain their domination. Witherspoon's celebrations of force are not an anti-thetical "turning of the tables" but just a reaffirmation of violence as a way to get one's point across. Please, we do not need a Dog Woman to kill for us but a wise woman to overcome these cycles of violence. The works of Rachael Pollack seem a more holistic and a far less pretentious emobidement of feminism "on the barricades." As far as a fantastic novel of early modern England's mythic past, Wendy Walker's marvelous and challenging novel Secret Service is a much more satisfying literary experience.
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Summary: Savory Fiction
Review: Sexing the Cherry is a true treat, ripe with humor, irony, pathos, and knowingly cultivated by a writer's fertile, elegant, and subtle yet so-incisive prose! The storyline cannot be described adequately in advance. Readers who sample just a few pages will embrace and be captivated by a marvelously spun tale. Savor the succulent flavors of Winterson's ink. The after-taste will leave you wanting to devour more of her splendid work.
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Summary: life changing literature
Review: Sexing the Cherry is one of the most incredible texts I have ever been exposed to. From the outset, Winterson asks (or rather forces) the reader to suspend all their ideas about life and the nature of reality. Suddenly we are tightrope walking, visiting the world where "love is an epidemic", or standing with Jordan as he eats his first pineapple. I was amazed by this novel and along with AVA by Carole Maso, it is the best thing I have read.
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Summary: You'll never finish this one...
Review: The absolute best I've ever read, and read again, and again. However often I re-read it, it's never the same, and it never fails to draw me into these wonderous worlds Jeanette Winterson has opened for any adventurous reader to explore. Throw away the rest of your books, this one will last a lifetime.
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Summary: reasons to write a book
Review: this book was enjoyable for me.. the fairytale of the flying city could be a book on it's own for me. i found this book to go off on random rants which did not seem to fit with either character and to me, felt as though they were coming from the author alone. this novel seemed to be written only as a reason to try and make this theory alive some how, and i'm not sure if it was successful at it. at many points in the book i found the events to be unexpected and out of character. the dog woman is portrayed as a loving and caring maternal woman and then a violent incapable of love murderess which i found hard to wrap my mind around.this book to me is in no way feminist and those who believe it is need to re-evaluate their ideas of feminism entirely. feminism is not violence and murder and because someone is large in size does not make them large in broad ideals. the ideas of religion i found also to be limiting to the story because the woman had a very narrow spectrum related to sin and this bothered me in many ways. fantasy is not an excuse for writing unrealalisticly and not following character's personality traits. i found many of this book to be confusing and hard to get over to enjoy the rest of the story. i would suggest people read this book because it has many enjoyable elements and it did not take me very long or intrude on my thoughts enough for me to think about it when i wasn't reading it.
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Summary: reasons to write a book
Review: this book was enjoyable for me.. the fairytale of the flying city could be a book on it's own for me. i found this book to go off on random rants which did not seem to fit with either character and to me, felt as though they were coming from the author alone. this novel seemed to be written only as a reason to try and make this theory alive some how, and i'm not sure if it was successful at it. at many points in the book i found the events to be unexpected and out of character. the dog woman is portrayed as a loving and caring maternal woman and then a violent incapable of love murderess which i found hard to wrap my mind around. this book to me is in no way feminist and those who believe it is need to re-evaluate their ideas of feminism entirely. feminism is not violence and murder and because someone is large in size does not make them large in broad ideals. the ideas of religion i found also to be limiting to the story because the woman had a very narrow spectrum related to sin and this bothered me in many ways. fantasy is not an excuse for writing unrealalisticly and not following character's personality traits. i found many of this book to be confusing and hard to get over to enjoy the rest of the story. i would suggest people read this book because it has many enjoyable elements and it did not take me very long or intrude on my thoughts enough for me to think about it when i wasn't reading it.
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Summary: Tedious, unstructured and unsatisfying
Review: This has got to be the most overrated book I have ever read. Thankfully it's only about 160 pages. The entire book I kept waiting for something to justify the lofty reviews and high praise. Instead I found myself laboring through a murky mess of occasionally interesting prose halfheartedly woven with blurred story lines and unappealing characters. I had a headache half way through and it never got any better. I have a hunch that people say they love this book because it's the PC thing to do simply because it is an author who writes about gender/sexual identitiy issues. This book was too tedious to read for me to even care about trying to find her message...
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