I was very excited to read this book after it was described as a feminist retelling of fairy tales. But I was kind of disappointed by the stories. Some were good, but others were very confusing and just weird. The writing was very complex, which I think was good and bad at the same time. At times, C...
Link's introduction to this book is good. Carter's dark fairy tales are still wonderful to read. She has the perfect combination of gothic decadance and folklore.
This is a collection of fairy tale retellings that, while written in 20th Century, read like classic literature, with long, winding sentences, reflective narrators, and lush descriptions.What doesn't read so much like classic literature are the sexual overtones in each story, which are not demure or...
If you can read the stories in Angela Carter's collection, The Bloody Chamber, you're not reading closely enough. The tales here are disturbing. They're violent. Some are erotic. Like the fairy tales of old, they contain warnings. Read the rest of my review at Summer Reading Project.
The Bloody Chamber is a collection of short story fiction that challenges the concept of the supernatural themes of fairytales as much as it challenges the ideologies and values of its era. And, for that matter, into the modern age. Angela Carter has a prosaic voice which sounds very similar to that...
I was expecting to be made very uncomfortable by Carter's best known work, but FAR from being a pornographic wallowing in sex and violence, I found the book to be a feast for my creative understanding. Gender and power relationships & structures, fantasy and folklore are explored from a critical fem...
As usual, four stars is my "recommend to anyone who'd like the genre" marker, but I'm not sure what the genre is. Dark and lovely and exquisitely written adult fairy tales I suppose, although it feels a bit odd to call them adult. (I mean, there's clearly sex going on, but it's a little distant, ha...
Some of these tales I really loved - they were inventive and beautifully written and interesting and complex.Other tales I read and thought "Well, ok, she just took the fairly tale as is and thew some sex in my face to make it 'edgy' but there's nothing really impressive or interesting about that."
WOW, this woman can write.Deliciously creepy. I couldn't sleep until I was done, and I sure as hell couldn't sleep after.Disney retellings will never be enough again.
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