The Crimson Petal and the White tells an ugly story. It’s very dark and even amidst all of the beautifully colorful late Victorian gowns and essences of perfumes and potpourri infused throughout, nothing is really able to mask the harshness and vice that corrodes the London middle class society desc...
Wow, this book was over 800 pages and although I normally feel like my brain ran a marathon after such a long book, I didn't feel like that at all with TCPATW. The way the book starts off, you feel pulled along through the streets of London by a funny and slightly cynical tour guide who is the book...
Over eight hundred pages of very small print, The Crimson Petal and the White is, nevertheless, tremendously readable. Like a mixture of Fielding and Dickens filtered through a twenty-first century sensibility, it positively teems with life, its pages stuffed with characters who leap out of the page...
Michel Faber's The Crimson Petal and The White is one of my favourite books (see my review). It's a Victorian-style gothic tale about Sugar, an angry prostitute that manages to rise through society by making a wealthy man fall in love with her. But it's more than that too - it's a panoramic of Lon...
Paused on page 430 and will definitely pick it up again. The Crimson Petal and the White is very interesting so far, it's just not one of those books that allow you to squeeze it in between work and running errands.
"Watch your step. Keep your wits about you; you will need them." From that captivating opening (echoed several times later on), you are a voyeur, on an extraordinarily vivid journey. I was enthralled from the start, raced through the 800+ pages at every opportunity, and remain in awe of the way the ...
This was a really, really weird book. I read about 150 pages before I decided that it really was not worth it. I couldn't bring myself to care about the plot, and the writing was abysmal. Also, his obsession with writing about the main character's (whose name I forget) penis was a little odd. I...
This was a really, really weird book. I read about 150 pages before I decided that it really was not worth it. I couldn't bring myself to care about the plot, and the writing was abysmal. Also, his obsession with writing about the main character's (whose name I forget) penis was a little odd. I...
Crimson Petal is a magnificent portrayal of life in Victorian England. The book is so visual that the reader almost feels present in the action. And the characters! Sugar is not your typical prostitute with a heart of gold. Yes, she aspires to be good and she is good to a certain extent. Only th...
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