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Sarah Waters: Books & Movies Discussion
Lumière:
--- Quote from: atz75 on May 12, 2009, 05:13:27 pm ---...
For this session, yeah, we can read the first chapter and give our initial impressions. :)
I'll post tomorrow about it for sure.
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Okay, I won't check this thread until my reading is done. =]
Would love to get through chapter 1 tonight.. but I've got to seal the grout on my new kitchen tiles tonight.. so it may not happen.. =[
We'll see how it goes tho'.
Cheers bud, :)
~M
Brown Eyes:
**report on Chapte 1**
Heya! So, I finished reading the first chapter of The Little Stranger last night. It's 36 pages and seems mainly to be about setting the scene and introducing a bunch of characters. So far the narrator/ protagonist is a man, which is certainly different for Waters. And, there's no hint of a lesbian subject yet. The writing is very strong, but I don't feel like I have a lot to react to yet... in terms of feeling attached to the characters or even yet having much of a sense of how the narrative will progress.
So, on to Chapter 2!
Lumière:
--- Quote from: atz75 on May 14, 2009, 10:51:43 am ---**report on Chapte 1**
Heya! So, I finished reading the first chapter of The Little Stranger last night. It's 36 pages and seems mainly to be about setting the scene and introducing a bunch of characters. So far the narrator/ protagonist is a man, which is certainly different for Waters. And, there's no hint of a lesbian subject yet. The writing is very strong, but I don't feel like I have a lot to react to yet... in terms of feeling attached to the characters or even yet having much of a sense of how the narrative will progress.
So, on to Chapter 2!
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Hey Bud... :)
Sorry I didn't show here sooner... I have been so busy with other stuff lately.
I am working on Chapter 2 right now.
I love the narrative and the introduction we are getting to the characters thus far. SW continues to impress with her descriptive style... I love it.
I'm with you - I'll be back with hopefully more detailed comments after chapter 2 is done.
Re: any lesbian subject - I doubt there is any in this book. I posted about that in here.. months ago, I believe.
Here is a great interview SW did on "Little Stranger":
http://www.afterellen.com/people/2009/5/sarahwaters
Check it out. :)
~M
Brown Eyes:
Oh. Well, somehow I forgot the detail that there's no lesbian plot or character. It's extremely disappointing to me, because that's why I read Sarah Waters. I thought part of her whole approach to writing was to re-insert lesbian characters, plots and points of view into otherwise conventional genres (where lesbian identity would be eliminated in conventional books). It also seems that Waters is turning her back on the core of her audience who really look to her as one high-quality writer who tackles lesbian topics in a serious way. To me it's the element that makes Waters as a writer special and different... as opposed to the sea of conventional books and authors out there.
Aside from all that, I'm finding this book to be very slow and so far I'm not finding myself very attached to any of the characters.
:-\
Ellemeno:
--- Quote from: atz75 on May 29, 2009, 06:58:16 pm ---Oh. Well, somehow I forgot the detail that there's no lesbian plot or character. It's extremely disappointing to me, because that's why I read Sarah Waters. I thought part of her whole approach to writing was to re-insert lesbian characters, plots and points of view into otherwise conventional genres (where lesbian identity would be eliminated in conventional books). It also seems that Waters is turning her back on the core of her audience who really look to her as one high-quality writer who tackles lesbian topics in a serious way. To me it's the element that makes Waters as a writer special and different... as opposed to the sea of conventional books and authors out there.
Aside from all that, I'm finding this book to be very slow and so far I'm not finding myself very attached to any of the characters.
:-\
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I don't know who Sarah Waters is (this is the only post of the thread that I've read, because I noticed it while looking at your posting history, A), but this is certainly what Rita Mae Brown has done too. I was very disappointed by her too. To go from Rubyfruit Jungle through her other lesbian novels to those Sneaky Pie Brown mysteries that could easily and comfortably have one or more lesbian characters, but don't, what a bummer. She was never that great a writer, but she sure used to be honest and fairly insightful and funny. Now she's phoning in heterosexual novels.
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