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The Electric Michelangelo

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Opening on the windswept front of Morecambe Bay, on the remote north-west coast of England, The Electric Michelangelo is a novel of love, loss and the art of tattooing.

In the uniquely sensuous and lyrical prose that has already become her trademark, Sarah Hall's remarkable new novel tells the story of Cy Parks, from his childhood years spent in a seaside guest house for co...more

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Published October 11th 2005 by Harper Perennial (first published 2004)

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Jul 21, 2007 Nancy B. rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: favorites

I expected this book to be a kind of fluffy story about a tattoo artist and his adoration of a girl, but it turns out that it's really a brilliantly drawn coming of age novel for the art of tattooing, america, and one engaging young man. The girl, who doesn't come in until late, is intriguing and solid, with a feminist bent that is believable and respectable. Sweet!

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Apr 11, 2010 L.S. rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 2010, audiobooks

[carte vorbita -humanitas:]
Dragos Bucur reuseste o lectura excelenta, ba as spune chiar o interpretare excelenta. Si autoarea mi-a lasat o impresie buna, deoarece a stiut sa vorbeasca frumos si ingenios despre un subiect care imi displace - si anume "arta tatuajului".
Cy o priveste pe Grace drept opera lui de arta, o opera pe care o iubeste. Se indragosteste de ea doar dupa ce Grace isi pierde frumusestea pe care el i-a dat-o.

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Jan 10, 2009 Stacey rated it 3 of 5 stars

This is the longest I have stuck with a book for a while, despite its difficulty. It literally took me 10 weeks to read (I'm measuring in weeks because of the whole pregnancy thing; I remember that when I started it, I was about 11 weeks because parts of the book were making me nauseous, and now I'm 21 weeks and the whole thing just made me tired lately). It's not because the book is overly long-it's about 340 pages--it's just that it's very dense. There is almost no dialogue, and the paragraphs...more

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May 02, 2012 Sharon rated it 4 of 5 stars

Sarah Hall's prolific use of words makes this one of those unique reads. This is the story of Cy Parks from age seven to age sixty-six. He spends his early years in his mom's consumptive hotel in Morecambe Bay around the turn of the century. At an early age he becomes apprenticed to a tatoo artist, Eliot Riley, who is an obnoxious and erratic alcoholic. Those years with Riley never get erased from Cy's brain. Cy takes on the title 'Electric Michelangelo' and leaves Morecambe Bay for the U.S. He...more

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May 31, 2010 Carol rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: literary-fiction

This book was terrific - I had very much wanted to read it and it lived up to every expectation I had. Set during the first half of the 20th century, it's about Cy Parks, who grows up in an English seaside resort town and becomes a very good tattoo artist. He emigrates to America, where he plies his trade in Coney Island. There he encounters the enigmatic Grace, who does an equestrian act in one of the park's circuses. Their oddly intimate relationship develops through the medium of her request...more

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May 04, 2009 Kimberly rated it 5 of 5 stars

“War was a peculiar thing…It brought out the best and the worst and the downright incomprehensible in people. It made them slough off the dead skin of reason and deepen the roots of nationality. They became creatures of habit, more so than ever before…War sent people out looking for principles and decency and even fragments of God to be woven up in chain-mail and used as armour against all the bestial suffering and immoral wickedness inflicted by other human beings, those accused of creating a c...more

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Nov 07, 2010 Linda rated it 4 of 5 stars

In the beginning I did not really like this book, reading it only because it was written about an area where I grew up in UK. I'm glad I persevered. It had a dark intense feeling and I kept wishing I could know and understand the main character Cy a little better. I read Sarah Hall's previous novel pretty much for the same reason, as it took place in the Lake District, but did not care for it very much. This novel drew me in and I started to feel that Morecambe and Coney Island were becoming the...more

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Apr 18, 2007 Meghann rated it 1 of 5 stars

i did not enjoy this book. i finished it out of obligation; i think i kept wanting it to be better but it just never was. i didn't really care about anyone in this story, though it was a little interesting to learn about early tatooing methods.

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Aug 08, 2011 Sam Woodfield added it · review of another edition

I have to say, this is one of teh oddest books I have ever written and I'm not sure that, in this case, thats a good thing. I found it really hard to grasp the point of this book and work out what the whole thing was about.

Ok, so the plots quite simple - young guy from Morcambe bay becomes a freehand tattooist and moves over to America to carry out his trade. There are a few added moments of drama along the way, but for me, thats where this novel ends. I'm normally a really quick reader, but I f...more

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Feb 07, 2010 Allie rated it 3 of 5 stars

What Sarah Hall does well in "The Electric Michelangelo" are descriptions. The images of blood, coughed up from lungs or pulled with a tattoo needle, are vivid enough to make me queasy. Likewise, I can perfectly imagine the characters and their every mannerism, except the main character Cyril whose perspective gives the story. However, after all these carefully constructed visuals I was left wanting more plot. The main action takes many fewer pages than the descriptions and happens so abruptly t...more

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Mar 21, 2010 Diana Andrei rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Michelangelo Electric, un roman captivant si neconventional care s-a numarat printre finalistele prestigiosului Booker Prize 2004, face parte din Colectia Raftul Denisei (foarte faina si ingrijita) si prezinta povestea fascinanta a unui artist tatuator de la inceputul secolului XX cand aceasta meserie era marginalizata si privita cu dezgust.

“Tatuajele puteau fi socante un timp. Dar in cele din urma deveneau componente obisnuite ale anatomiei umane. Oamenii treceau prin viata ca niste cani indelu...more Michelangelo Electric, un roman captivant si neconventional care s-a numarat printre finalistele prestigiosului Booker Prize 2004, face parte din Colectia Raftul Denisei (foarte faina si ingrijita) si prezinta povestea fascinanta a unui artist tatuator de la inceputul secolului XX cand aceasta meserie era marginalizata si privita cu dezgust.

“Tatuajele puteau fi socante un timp. Dar in cele din urma deveneau componente obisnuite ale anatomiei umane. Oamenii treceau prin viata ca niste cani indelung folosite, adunand cioburi, zgarieturi si pete, de atata uzura, dupa ce au continut si au turnat viata.”

Michelangelo Electric de Sarah Hall are un inceput visceral si pe alocuri poate neplacut pentru cei obisnuiti cu o lectura soft dar pe masura ce treci de primele 30 de pagini incepe sa te fascineze tot mai mult. E drept ca dialogul este aproape inexistent iar limbajul este un fel de proza poetica, pe alocuri mult prea incarcat si cu detalii ce nu prea-si au rostul insa, daca ai rabdare, gasesti fraze tari si minunate.

“Tatuarea era un salt inainte. Era implicita. Era explicita. Era intimitate absoluta, intimitate cu intreaga lume primara care fute, ucide, iubeste. Astea sunt culorile fundamentale ale vietii, nu? Cele trei culori originale pe care fiintele umane doar le amesteca pentru a scoate din ele nuante civilizate.”

Povestea il urmareste pe Cy (Cyril Parks), un pusti ce creste in hotelul pentru tuberculosi al mamei sale, de la prima sa intalnire cu viitorul mentor intr-ale tatuajului, Eliot Riley (foarte dubios si decadent), trecand prin perioada de ucenicie, mutarea la New York, apoi in Coney Island unde isi gaseste muza (o artista de circ ce traieste intr-un apartament impreuna cu calul sau) si revenirea in Morecambe-le natal de pe coastele Marii Britanii.

Desi nu se spun prea multe despre sentimentele sau gandurile lui Cy, autoarea strecoara multe alte povestioare si detalii despre vietile altora, despre ce poarta in spate cel mai mic dintre semnele imprimate in piele.

“Deodata, Cy intelese despre ce era vorba. Vazu dincolo de cerneala rosie care intra in piele. Vazu prin miezul lucrarii lui, vazu cum daruia lumii comunicare fara compromis, cum scotea la iveala sinele. Cum talmacea experienta si identitatea in culoare si forma. Cum el reprezenta mainile artistice ale celorlalti oameni, poate redundant in alegerea temei, dar imperativ in transmiterea ei. Aceasta era esenta sa stranie si imposibila.”

Deasemeni, in roman se regasesc subiecte referitoare la litoralul infloritor al Marii Britanii inainte de Primul Razboi Mondial, la succesul si prabusirea lui Coney Island, originile si tehnicile primitive folosite in arta tatuajului si, ce mi-a placut cel mai mult, introducerea in lumea vie si colorata a “freak show”-urilor din anii 1900.

Merita sa intri intr-o atmosfera aparte si sa-l cunosti pe Michelangelo electric pentru ca el picteaza inimi, si picteaza suflete.(less)

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Jul 24, 2011 Dawn rated it 4 of 5 stars

Dynamic settings-- seaside amusement parks-- and a beautiful rendering of the history and art of tattoos (you're going to want some ink!) all as a vehicle for an engaging love story. SWOON!

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Dec 08, 2011 Isabel rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

A feeling of doom hangs over the Morecambe boarding house run by Cy Parks' widowed mother. Death stalks the TB patients who spend their holidays there and sometimes die in situ, while late at night in the off-season the Bayview Hotel becomes the site of illegal abortions performed by Mrs Parks and the mother of one of Cy's friends. And of course there is the sea, with the treacherous quicksands and fast-racing tide of Morecambe bay, ready to catch unwary tourists and foolhardy children, and grea...more A feeling of doom hangs over the Morecambe boarding house run by Cy Parks' widowed mother. Death stalks the TB patients who spend their holidays there and sometimes die in situ, while late at night in the off-season the Bayview Hotel becomes the site of illegal abortions performed by Mrs Parks and the mother of one of Cy's friends. And of course there is the sea, with the treacherous quicksands and fast-racing tide of Morecambe bay, ready to catch unwary tourists and foolhardy children, and great storms like the one with killed Cy's fisherman father. So I wasn't surprised that Cy ended up leaving town, and as he loved his home town I wasn't surprised either that he ended up in another seaside resort on the other side of the Atlantic.

When Cy asked Paddy, the landlord of the Dog and Partridge, Cy's local pub, whether the world is a better place than Morecambe, he replied 'Well I believe it's bigger. And there are no doubt fewer donkeys', but in Coney Island Cy finds himself in a hellish version of Morecambe, in which Paddy's counterparts in Cy's new local, the Varga Oyster Bar, are the Siamese twins Mary and Valerie.

This was Morecambe of international proportions and inconceivable wealth, it was Morecambe gone putrid and suffering without any of its former inhibitions, as if the Tory councillors had packed up their belongings and documents banning distasteful shows and left town, taking their collective prudish notions for ever with them and leaving the occult industries to sprout and run amok. Here there was far too much attention to detail, far too much gruesome investigation into what would titillate and far too much anarchy of demeanour, and it blew Cy away as if he's placed a gun to his head and squeezed the trigger. As if this truly was the nation's purgatory, where any prurient display was advocated, any misdemeanour was acquitted, any sin suspended before a hopelessly hung celestial jury.

I'm very impressed by Sarah Hall's powers of description - Within the first 50 pages there were wonderful descriptions of the Bayview Hotel, the town of Morecambe, the burning of the pier, the quicksands, the effect of WWI on the townsfolk, as well as things that Cy himself didn't really understand as a small boy, such as the abortions and the visits of the suffragettes. It's strange that in a book so full of colour, of life and death, not much seems to happen. It's unusual for me to like books with so many descriptive passages and so little plot as much as I liked "The Electric Michelangelo", but I found the world of the fairgrounds and boardwalks fascinating. It did take me ages to read though - I started it on 10th May and finished it today.(less)

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Mar 10, 2013 Pickett rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: fiction

Was sad to see that a friend had sent me a Booker Award winner. They are usualy too verbose. This one is a gem. I kept writing down phrases ... had to give up, too many. Very feminist characters (mother did abortions and was a suffragette, other women were strong and wild and wonderful). Main character is a tattoo inker. We grow up with him in a small English village by the sea. He becomes an apprentice to an irascible great tattoo artist. He ends up on tattoo row in Coney Island where he finds...more

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Mar 21, 2007 Alicia rated it 1 of 5 stars

I tried to read this several times and haven't been able to get through it. I wish I could explain why, but perhaps it just isn't my style.

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Dec 31, 2011 Dale rated it 4 of 5 stars

Disturbing book, broad and deep and thorough in the portrayal of the darker paths of the human race. The trouble is, there is no one to like or empathize with in the book. Shows all life to be a cesspool. I look for some sort of redemption, some meaning, and found no reason to continue life from this premise.

If you like unrelenting darkness and foul natures, suffering and slogging through in spite of all, this might just be the book for you. I found much of the life of the characters truly repe...more

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Aug 02, 2011 Melissa added it

I think that Hall will be a great writer one day. This is her 2nd novel and is much stronger than her first, Haweswater, which I found a little precious and boring. Her prose, which is described as Lawrentian on the jacket of the book, is a bit overwrought and wordy for my taste, but the characters are multi-faceted, vividly drawn, and memorable, and the historical backdrop is fully fleshed, convincing, and fascinating. I really like the way she complicates the gender politics in this book. If y...more

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Oct 21, 2010 Jessica La La La La La! rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: sex-drugs-rocknroll, fiction-literature

"Brooklyn was as hopping crazy as a bucket of painted frogs."

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"Riley had once told him that it was not those big titties on a bare arm that offended, not farting ladies, nor a marked face. Tattooing was on the black side, yes, ot because it dealt largely with the rougher working classes, not because it meant that sex and danger and opinion got put about in pictures on people like a rude proclamation.....

Tattooing distresses those it does, lad, because it's as generous as a w...more "Brooklyn was as hopping crazy as a bucket of painted frogs."

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"Riley had once told him that it was not those big titties on a bare arm that offended, not farting ladies, nor a marked face. Tattooing was on the black side, yes, ot because it dealt largely with the rougher working classes, not because it meant that sex and danger and opinion got put about in pictures on people like a rude proclamation.....

Tattooing distresses those it does, lad, because it's as generous as a whore on her birthday. It's human art that you can't peel back off the human or put away in a dresser drawer. It's unselfish.... it's personal socialism. Everyone's included, everyone gets to look in to a person and share them, like what they see or not. It says here I am, shit and come and all. Nationality, how I like my women, what does it for me. Just like a bullet hole into the guts and bowels. Oh aye, and I'll tell you this, lad: a tattoo says more of a fellow looking at it than it can do of the man who's got it on his back. And people don't like each other half the time, they don't like each other's opinions or lives, they don't want to sympathize with each other, they don't want to share, so what they do is shoot the messenger.... what it really is, people like to keep each other strangers until they've really judged. You remember that."

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"To tattoo was to understand that people in all their confusing mystery wanted only to claim their bodies as their own site, on which to build a beacon, or raise a rafter, or nail up a manifesto, warning, celebrating, telling of themselves. It was to understand that in order for a body to be reborn and re-yoked, first it needed to be destroyed and freed. It was emancipation and it was slavery, the ashes and the phoenix. It was beauty and destruction, it was that old trick."

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"Have they told you what the most common injury is in the war? It's your brain. The war punches an asshole in it and whenever it feels like it, it fucks the asshole. Always it feels too small, like it's tearing open. You're never going to get used to it - like a virgin will make herself stronger and stop bleeding. It always hurts when the war fucks you, but you know it's rubbing on a place in your brain you can't control so you're going to respond like you want to be fucked by it - maybe you'll beat your wife when you get home or put your fingers in your little daughter, put her up on the table and make her dance for you in her mother's shoes and pearls. And when the war is done fucking it comes, this stinking mess, this juice just like your own, and then the children of war will live in your brain too. Even when you're an old man with your polished medals, all bent over and can't get hard and smelling of piss, sometimes the war will want to come back and fuck your brain in its asshole. All your life. Or until you put your gun up to here and pull the trigger. Yes. Yes."(less)

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Jan 21, 2012 randy rated it 2 of 5 stars

After an incredibly long streak of reading great books and enjoying them all, there was bound to be an end to it all. And with this book the end came quickly and severely.

I could not keep up with the amount of times I said to myself that I was not going to pick this up again and abandon it, but then a line of absolute beauty would rise from the page enough to knock me clear on my ass and force me to rethink the whole thing. One of these quotes: "More than baseball and the cooking, more even tha...more

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Mar 13, 2011 Willem van den Oever rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: in-dutch, romance, history

The story of Cyril Parks, a boy from northern British Morecambe, how he discovered the elements of life, loss and tattooing, which take him across the ocean and towards a young woman with a special assignment for him.

Sarah Hall has a way with words, painting with them in a delicate, poetic fashion, leaving behind long sentences and page-long paragraphs. Needless to say, the pacing of her story becomes rather low, despite spanning six decades in three hundred pages.
The Electric Michelangelo’ is...more The story of Cyril Parks, a boy from northern British Morecambe, how he discovered the elements of life, loss and tattooing, which take him across the ocean and towards a young woman with a special assignment for him.

Sarah Hall has a way with words, painting with them in a delicate, poetic fashion, leaving behind long sentences and page-long paragraphs. Needless to say, the pacing of her story becomes rather low, despite spanning six decades in three hundred pages.
The Electric Michelangelo’ is a story about a simple beach town for the first hundred pages, the startup to an adventure tale during its following chapters, before shifting from left to right between love story and gothic horror tale during its climax. The story lacks a clear four-parted structure; rather, Hall moves backwards and forwards trough time and lets life changing surprises pop up almost randomly, like these things would do to us in real life.
Her descriptions are powerful and moving, and Cyril’s memories become those of the reader as Hall succeeds in the use of recurring themes and ancient impressions. There is a dreadfull lull during the middle of the novel as Cyril’s life comes almost to a standstill because Hall spends far too much time on reminiscing and describing relationships which are going nowhere. The endless sentences become a clutter wherein it becomes all too easy to get lost and the mind of the reader begins to wander while glazing over the descriptions.
Characters, while curious, courageous and never perfect, still have a certain flatness to them as motivations or backgrounds – apart from those of Cyril – hardly ever get exposed. Things seem to happen for Cyril to move forward in his life, yet the reason why they do so is not always as clear.

Nevertheless, the wonderful prose, fantastic backgrounds and curious nature of its characters and their actions make ‘The Electric Michelangelo’ a successful romance, adventure story and look inside the world of tattoo artists.(less)

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Aug 19, 2008 Leslie rated it 2 of 5 stars Recommends it for: people who like lists, adjectives, and lists of adjectives

I'm the first person to champion ambitious prose, even when it overreaches. I was absolutely with this book for the first 50 pages (at least through the anecdotal preamble about Cy's mischievous, unorthodox upbringing in a seaside consumptive hotel/abortion clinic). But once Riley is introduced and Cy is ensnared in the seamy underworld of tattooing, seadog villainy, and other tediously familiar treachery, the monomaniacal narrative voice begins to bulldoze the protagonist, wringing from him any...more

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Aug 08, 2012 Emily rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: british, fiction, historical

The strange thing is that I remember not liking it very much but finished it anyway. I just went back and read the Amazon reviews of the books and now I remember - the writing was really beautiful and the book introduced me to a world - a couple, actually - that were completely unfamiliar to me. But it was a sad and dark and disturbing book, and I think that's why I remember not liking it very much.

Cy is a child of a single mother in a small seaside town in England early in the 20th century. His...more

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Oct 30, 2010 Isabeausink rated it 5 of 5 stars

I love carnys and I love ink.

Hall's research is exquisite and only stopped short of Gonzo in that she couldn't find a time rocket to travel back in.

The main character and his colleagues are steeped in a tradition of artistic expression that is unappreciated today in 'the west.'

What it means to be 'marked' is explored with philosophical heat.

Twisted and powerful narrative, prose a shade of darker purple, I found I often caught myself writing down a phrase or metaphor I wanted to remember ...

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Aug 16, 2011 Eva rated it 5 of 5 stars

Intense is the only way to describe this book. It's divided up into two parts -- coming of age, and falling in love. Or something like that. It's very well written and researched, and the plot is indeed something unique. The descriptions of Coney Island between and after the world wars are pretty remarkable. It's got some parts that are a little bit hard to get through; they're not dull, mind you. Just difficult. In a good way. I don't think I can say anything bad about this title, actually.

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Oct 17, 2012 Libby rated it 4 of 5 stars

Once upon a time you had to search for this type of stuff. Now every tattoo parlor looks like it was inspired by old timey boardwalk culture, and it's possible for any asshole to perfect that look. In this nuanced tale of tattoo culture, there isn't much that's antiseptically cool. It starts out with consumption victims along the gloomy resort coast of Britain, old dying British people, gloom, blood, a cornucopia of other bodily fluids. I recommend it, if you can handle it.

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Aug 30, 2008 Amy rated it 4 of 5 stars

I picked this book up because I am fascinated with tattoos. I have one and would like more, and I think it's very interesting what drives people to get things permanently etched on their skin. Also, the cover for this book is beautiful, and I'm easily distracted by shiny objects. While I did enjoy it, I feel at times it's over-written. The author clearly has a love affair with words, and while I can't blame her for that, I often found myself skipping ahead to the end of a paragraph or the next p...more

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Apr 03, 2011 Jenneffer rated it 4 of 5 stars

The setting for this book is by the sea. At first, it reminded me of the last book by John Banville, also set seaside. Hall's writing and sensibilities are like Banville's, except, with soul. The characters are interesting, as are the plots, but the best part is the rich way the story flows, seamlessly and fully, much like the tide. The author could have written about canvas painting, or flower picking, anything really, although the tattooing is interesting. I would like to get my hands on her f...more

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Dec 03, 2011 Jane Petermeier rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2011-reads

Even though my previous reviews of the book were rather poor, my overall feel of the book was a straight 3 out of 5. The 2nd half of the book proved to be better than the first half. You need to take into consideration that this book is full of descriptions, the author has quite a knack for detail, WHEW! The plot, what plot???? The characters, oh, yes there were characters and they were vivid, due to their very thorough descriptions. If you are here to find a book to read, keep looking...there a...more

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Jan 04, 2009 Sarah rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: bookclub

Although rather disturbing at times, once you get past the first few chapters it is quite fascinating--especially as a historical novel that deals with the appeal of "freak shows" in the early 1900s. I also thought it was really a very femenist story, despite being told through the voice of a man. If you get queasy with graphic depictions of medical experiences, body fluids, and such, be warned.

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Apr 07, 2013 Gina Durst rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: favorites, things-i-own

This is a rare love for me. I didn't expect much from it, and it was a challenging read in terms of word difficulty, but most definitely worth it. The story was enchanting, the word choice breathtaking, and the depth of both character development and human understanding is just astounding in this novel.
I really felt transported into another life by this book, and this is one I'm proud to say I own.

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“There were times when initial introductions were so vested with something other as to confuse and distract and entrance both parties, Cy would realize later. And only further into their relationships when you knew the person better, and their place in your life became clear, if there was love, if there was hate, if there was deepness of any kind, only then did you understand that the embers of meaning have been present all along and glowing since that first moment you laid eyes on them. As if you already knew them before you came to know them. As if some rift had bent time.” — 3 people liked it

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