tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7076175537580915086.post3607282367140295292..comments2023-05-05T21:35:56.448+10:00Comments on Joel's Blog #1: Blogging the Booker 3: The Slapjbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08588733228882602884noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7076175537580915086.post-45430573086103281652010-08-22T21:42:35.852+10:002010-08-22T21:42:35.852+10:00Thanks for your comment, Chloe!
It's a good...Thanks for your comment, Chloe! <br /><br />It's a good point, and one I should have made in my review, that the version of sex presented in 'The Slap' is pretty unappealing. Constantly present, too. But none of the men can so much see a woman without imaging her naked or whatever - and that does become quite tedious fairly quickly.<br /><br />I might give 'Dead Europe' a go sometime...jbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08588733228882602884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7076175537580915086.post-41386498368798003872010-08-22T14:54:18.914+10:002010-08-22T14:54:18.914+10:00I was terribly disappointed by The Slap. Tsiolkas...I was terribly disappointed by The Slap. Tsiolkas' Dead Europe is one of my favourite books ever. It is so dark and ambiguous and plays beautifully with myth and fable. The Slap, on the other hand (pun?), is journalism. Like a Sunday lift-out about some mild middle-class dilemma. As you say, the characters are hard to cherish, and I too found them hard to believe in because each was crafted as a facet of modern Australia (a depressing place in this book), rather than as a haphazard human. I was also amused at Tsiolkas' chronicling of heterosexual male desire - but I prefer him gay ;-)chloe bnoreply@blogger.com