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A review by babsaway14
Wetlands by Charlotte Roche
1.0
So, is hygiene meant to replace sex in "shock and awe" literature? All that can be written about getting it on has, apparently, been explored and therefore the literary critical world is in a twitter about a girl with a DIY tampon fetish and dirty fingernails? Is that what I'm supposed to take from the controversy surrounding this stultifyingly dull novel?
Jesus, this book was boring. I found myself scanning entire pages and grasping hold of only one or two sentences and it mattered not at all, as neither author nor editor nor publisher felt a plot was important so long as the main character provided detailed paragraphs on scab/snot eating.
In fact, as far as I could decipher, the plot was that the main character was bored. And trust me - the one thing the author does well in this story is boredom, pure, mindless, why-am-I-reading-this boredom.
Jesus, this book was boring. I found myself scanning entire pages and grasping hold of only one or two sentences and it mattered not at all, as neither author nor editor nor publisher felt a plot was important so long as the main character provided detailed paragraphs on scab/snot eating.
In fact, as far as I could decipher, the plot was that the main character was bored. And trust me - the one thing the author does well in this story is boredom, pure, mindless, why-am-I-reading-this boredom.