Povere creature!

Moonlight is mysterious but it is cold… Sunlight is ordinary but it brings warmth… “Only bad religions depend on mysteries, just as bad governments depend on secret police. Truth, beauty and goodness are not mysterious, they are the commonest, most obvious, most essential facts of life, like sunlight Leggi tutto

And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why postmodern literature is so much fun: Gray basically tells a feminist story about how some mad men stitch up their sick idea of a perfect female, and this Frankensteinian creation - the body of a beautiful grown woman, the brain of an infant - emanciaptes herse Leggi tutto

The book that turned me on to frame tales, unreliable narrators, authors-as-editors, found documents, pastiche and parody, emotionally stimulating artwork, the novel as an a objet d’art, run-on sentences, paratextual palaver, and metafiction-with-a-heart is as marvellous on the third read as it was Leggi tutto

PLEASE!!!! no more pov’s from a man!!!!!! i’ve had ENOUGH!!!!!!!

this should have been written by a woman.

Updated with thoughts about the movie at the bottom. I read somewhere that this book could aptly be summarized as a feminist, socialist riff on "Frankenstein", one of my favorite books, so I was quite eager to read it. In fact, I am amazed it never appeared on my radar before I was suddenly surrounde Leggi tutto

Czuję się aż nielegalnie oceniając ją tak nisko, ale oh god jakie to było kuriozalne.

Just realised that this Poor Things is the very book that the big new movie Poor Things that apparently everybody is talking about is based on....! Now I need to see it...! ***** original review : Almost the only thing that dragged me away from this rollicking novel was a school production of Oliver in Leggi tutto