Everyone says that this book is super gross. Mechwarrior Rpg Handbook On Injectable Drugs. Honestly, I wasn't grossed out or amused by any of it. When I wasn't bored, I was annoyed. The 'gross-out' parts made me feel like the book was written by a teenage boy with ridiculous fantasies of what women do behind closed doors.
Feuchtgebiete has 7,294 ratings and 864 reviews. Michelle said: Everyone says that this book is super gross. Honestly, I wasn't grossed out or amused.
The stories Helen shared about things like spreading bacteria or what she did with avocado pits made me feel less like she was a strong woman with a 'who-gives-a-crap' attitude, and more like she was just a perverted pre-t Everyone says that this book is super gross. Honestly, I wasn't grossed out or amused by any of it. When I wasn't bored, I was annoyed. The 'gross-out' parts made me feel like the book was written by a teenage boy with ridiculous fantasies of what women do behind closed doors. The stories Helen shared about things like spreading bacteria or what she did with avocado pits made me feel less like she was a strong woman with a 'who-gives-a-crap' attitude, and more like she was just a perverted pre-teen. Everything Helen did sounded so over the top, as if she was in some sort of competition for the most sexually unconventional woman of all time.
I have read many reviews in which people sing this book's praises, calling it a triumph for the feminist movement. I don't understand that at all. Any woman can use explicit language to write a bunch of 'gross' stuff about her body. This is nothing special. It’s a book with a buzz. It’s the first German book to top the lists of Amazon bestsellers, and the one to which reviews referred to as a ‘feminist manifesto bordering pornography’.
In truth, this book is both a tale of a troubled teenager, and a reaction to the artificial and sanitized model of femininity of the cosmetic ads and glossy magazines covers. Helen, an 18-year-old heroin, desperately needs warmth and attention, but nobody really cares about her. She wants love; she wants her parents It’s a book with a buzz. It’s the first German book to top the lists of Amazon bestsellers, and the one to which reviews referred to as a ‘feminist manifesto bordering pornography’. In truth, this book is both a tale of a troubled teenager, and a reaction to the artificial and sanitized model of femininity of the cosmetic ads and glossy magazines covers. Helen, an 18-year-old heroin, desperately needs warmth and attention, but nobody really cares about her. She wants love; she wants her parents together.
She does outrageous things to get a stir from them, but to no avail. She is shameless, provocative and promiscuous, she experiments with drugs; all of that it seems to come to terms with her mother’s failed murder suicide and her parents’ divorce. Just like Helen, the book is outrageous, irreverent, attention seeking, but it’s also funny and very bold. Somewhat scatological as well. When I was a kid, losing myself in stories and in novels, I sometimes wondered why we never read about characters going to the bathroom. Or the outhouse: Why didn't we ever see Laura do that in 'Little House on the Prairie?' Fiction seemed unrealistic to me, as a result, and I thought that when I wrote books myself, I would do it differently.
Charlotte Roche appears to be single-handedly making up for this lack in her novel 'Wetlands.' Problem is: I have to keep reminding myself it is fiction and When I was a kid, losing myself in stories and in novels, I sometimes wondered why we never read about characters going to the bathroom. Or the outhouse: Why didn't we ever see Laura do that in 'Little House on the Prairie?' Fiction seemed unrealistic to me, as a result, and I thought that when I wrote books myself, I would do it differently. Charlotte Roche appears to be single-handedly making up for this lack in her novel 'Wetlands.' Problem is: I have to keep reminding myself it is fiction and not autobiography.
While initially I applauded the boldness with which she writes about the female body, all orifices and secretions, the complete lack of self-consciousness she has toward her body, the way she embraces each and every aspect, nook and cranny so to speak, and all manner of secretions, it finally seemed she has no more to tell us than this: I like my vagina. I like my arsehole.
I like to eat, lick, suck. I am not afraid. It does not a story make. A sensation it does, even perhaps a needed one, but.a longish personal essay would have done nicely.
Without the repetition and the subsequent numbing effect. This book was certainly 'different'. It was absolutely disgusting and made me cringe at most points and laugh at a few, but I was still strangely intrigued by this book. I think the reason why I most enjoyed this book was seeing courage that Roche had to approach the very 'taboo' subjects that it deals with. I've never read anything like this and I wouldn't like to read more, I think I only found this interesting because it's the first of its type that I've read. I can completely understand that This book was certainly 'different'. It was absolutely disgusting and made me cringe at most points and laugh at a few, but I was still strangely intrigued by this book.