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Title: The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter ISBN: 0-14-017821-X Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: January, 1990 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.52 (25 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: a collection of "grown-up" fairytales
Comment: I first read this book in college and it has become one of my all-time favorites. In this collection of short stories, Angela Carter takes the fairytales, nursery rhymes, and the images and themes they contain and perverts/illuminates them. What is most striking about this collection is Carter's writing style. Her language is simultaneously poetic and profane. The stories are heavy with her purple language, which is what makes them so satisfying to read. In additon to the exquisite language, Carter's re-telling of classic tales such as "Snow White," "Red Riding Hood," "Puss in Boots," etc., never fails to pay off. Carter creates a world in which Red Riding hood is the savvy hunter, not the innocent hunted. These stories make us focus on the overly simplistic (and often slanted) messages we were taught as children when these tales were first presented to us. In particular, Carter makes us question what fairytales have taught us about gender roles, marriage, and sex. For a trip into the fantasic that will make you laugh and make you really THINK, read this book!
Rating: 5
Summary: Quirky, disarming, witty, sexy -- magic realism at its best!
Comment: Do you have the courage to enter Angela Carter's quirky realm of magical realism? She is brilliant. BRILLIANT! I love these short stories -- or rather, fairy tales that everyone is familiar with. The stories have very familiar themes, like tragic love stories, werewolf stories and Cinderella-like stories. Of course, Angela added her own ingredients in the stories. There are a lot of elements of sex and a large dosage of magical realism. They are so mind-boggling disturbing that I found myself thinking about them long after I finished reading them. My favorites are "The Lady of the House of Love," "The Snow Child," and "The Werewolf." I marvel at Carter's imagination. She is truly gifted. Her writing style sort of reminds me of Amanda Filipacchi -- a brilliant French novelist. In fact, I wonder if Carter influenced Filipacchi's work. I highly recommend The Bloody Chamber. This isn't for the faint at heart; this is dark literature at its finest!
Rating: 1
Summary: The Importance of Being Earnest
Comment: Were one to be Earnest one would recognize that - philosophically speaking - there is but one a priori universal truth. That is that Angela Carter genuinely participated in sexual acts with varying horses. Not only does her feminist Mumbo Jumbo taint the complexity of the original fairy tales, but it simplifies the role of men in society. This simplification is then replicated again and again until the reader is left saying, "yes, all men are bad." This is of course her intention - and an intention I would respect were it not for the fact that it were spawned out of her fornication with horses. Thus I conclude that this is a thoroughly awful work, which is only popular because of an enforced equality between male and female writers. She is nothing. Do not buy this book.
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Title: Transformations by Anne Sexton ISBN: 061808343X Publisher: Mariner Books Pub. Date: 15 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Classic Fairy Tales: Texts, Criticism (Norton Critical Edition) by Maria M. Tatar ISBN: 0393972771 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: November, 1998 List Price(USD): $16.35 |
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Title: The Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter ISBN: 0140256407 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: August, 1996 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Burning Your Boats: Collected Stories by Angela Carter ISBN: 0140255281 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: August, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins by Emma Donoghue ISBN: 0064407721 Publisher: HarperTrophy Pub. Date: 30 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $11.99 |
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