by Erica Jong
Read this years ago and remember thinking it was terribly boring!! I doubt I could make it through the book now.
Really Really good, unexpected. It is amazing that this book was written in the early 70s. Now I just wish I knew what happened after the ending!
I read a Danish translation of this book decades ago when I was still studying at the university and I loved it. I just got of of the boook in English, and I'm looking forward to re-read it again soon.
Strange how one generation's radical feminist novel can appear almost retro sexist to a later generation. Fear has some funny parts and some raunchy parts, but I'm not really the target audience and its not really to my taste.
Intelligent and well-written. I really felt like I was in the main character's head, though I didn't always agree with her actions.I wish there were more books in this vein and style today, instead of all the fluffy "chick lit" crap out there.
This book might have earned itself a whole star just by being in the right place at the right time. In Geneva, trapped with nothing to read, this jumped out at me in a market. It was in English, I was grateful....
I don't think I really got it at the time.
iw69: hello. i want you nowmannyrayner: do we know each other?iw69: not at all, that's the point. i thought we could just have a completely no-strings-attached sexual encounter for its own sake, and then say goodbye. wouldn't that be poetic and beautiful?mannyrayner: um, well, maybe. i'm sorry, i gu...
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