The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
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I hope whoever finds this book enjoys it!
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Journal Entry 2 by Caterinaanna from Coventry, West Midlands United Kingdom on Sunday, April 20, 2008
Sorry molyneux, it was on my wish-list, so I nabbed it.
Journal Entry 3 by Caterinaanna from Coventry, West Midlands United Kingdom on Sunday, August 10, 2008
And the fuss about this is because? Sorry, I didn't think it was anything special.
That it is not as radically feminist as I had been led to expect is a good thing and, in the introduction to this edition, Helen Simpson points out that it wasn't meant to be. Gothic it was, especially The Lady of the House of Love.
Maybe I shouldn't have read the collection straight through, then I would have appreciated each tale more. However I find Carter's style somewhat arch and, in many of these tales, remote. Apart from the Chaucerian ribaldly of Puss in Boots, I didn't find the variety of voices promised in the introduction and that too was another disappointment.
It is a classic, so I know I'm likely to be in a minority. I hope the next reader enjoys it more than I have.
That it is not as radically feminist as I had been led to expect is a good thing and, in the introduction to this edition, Helen Simpson points out that it wasn't meant to be. Gothic it was, especially The Lady of the House of Love.
Maybe I shouldn't have read the collection straight through, then I would have appreciated each tale more. However I find Carter's style somewhat arch and, in many of these tales, remote. Apart from the Chaucerian ribaldly of Puss in Boots, I didn't find the variety of voices promised in the introduction and that too was another disappointment.
It is a classic, so I know I'm likely to be in a minority. I hope the next reader enjoys it more than I have.
