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robin_dh's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
tingeorges's review against another edition
dark
sad
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Nice artwork, but not much of a story there.
ehawk's review against another edition
4.0
intriguing, erotic and grotesque. gave me many thoughts on what is beauty, what is crude? great read.
youfelinedevil's review against another edition
3.0
maybe im missing something but like... I feel like readers are putting all this stuff on tina that might not even be there?? and it seems like the point is like here's this guy who is not seeing her, is incapable of seeing her. So maybe it's appropriate that cronenberg compares her to lolita, bc humbert was forever incapable of seeing through himself to her. also doubly appropriate bc cronenberg is like she's sexy she's earthy she's scary and I'm like... she's probably a kid. our protagonist realizes this and it doesn't really seem to bother him. I don't even know if thisis a spoiler bc you can see it coming. arriving.
in general I am very much over this whole weird freakout men seem to have about sex, as if they're the first to notice it's dirty or goofy or whatever. your thesis about how demeaning and surreal and disgusting it is doesn't make you an envelope pushing intellectual, it just makes you a nerd puritan. maybe you've been allowed to indulge too much and now you're bored, idk. inevitably you drag women into it bc we're the ones you want to fuck and the whole thing manages to become misogynistic on top of everything else.
I feel like I can't rate this bc I don't know where the authors coming from. does he sympathize with the protagonist? are the ironic things meant to be ironic? does he buy his own bullshit?
in general I am very much over this whole weird freakout men seem to have about sex, as if they're the first to notice it's dirty or goofy or whatever. your thesis about how demeaning and surreal and disgusting it is doesn't make you an envelope pushing intellectual, it just makes you a nerd puritan. maybe you've been allowed to indulge too much and now you're bored, idk. inevitably you drag women into it bc we're the ones you want to fuck and the whole thing manages to become misogynistic on top of everything else.
I feel like I can't rate this bc I don't know where the authors coming from. does he sympathize with the protagonist? are the ironic things meant to be ironic? does he buy his own bullshit?
bohowallflower's review against another edition
3.0
Really interesting. I didn't think I'd find myself reading this one, but once I got into it, I couldn't stop reading. It had a lot of great themes regarding sexual deviance and the dangers of passion and getting addicted to people for their physicality rather than who they are as a person.
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