Penny's review
Rubyfruit Jungle
by Rita Mae Brown
Penny's review
Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown
Penny's review
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Yeah, that Rita Mae Brown. I bet you didn't know she wrote steamy lesbian novels when she wasn't working on those cat mysteries. Ok, it wasn't really steamy...
Here are my notes, verbatim:
Well, at first I was just going to put this one down as one more depressing rant about a character who couldn't give a damn and who putters away life in a permanent state of depravity. I was also starting to be alarmed by the fact that there were more lesbians in the first 30 pages than I've met in my life. (Not, that is to say, that this same crime isn't committed frequently in male/male romps. Nor that it's actually a crime.)
But somewhere around the time she ends up in NYC, I started to genuinely enjoy it. The imagery was so delightfully understated. Even though I had trouble getting into the head of the main character at times, I still felt kinship with her, going to film school and telling everyone with their conservative dreams or destitute schemes to get lost. Overall thoroughly enjoyable...more
Here are my notes, verbatim:
Well, at first I was just going to put this one down as one more depressing rant about a character who couldn't give a damn and who putters away life in a permanent state of depravity. I was also starting to be alarmed by the fact that there were more lesbians in the first 30 pages than I've met in my life. (Not, that is to say, that this same crime isn't committed frequently in male/male romps. Nor that it's actually a crime.)
But somewhere around the time she ends up in NYC, I started to genuinely enjoy it. The imagery was so delightfully understated. Even though I had trouble getting into the head of the main character at times, I still felt kinship with her, going to film school and telling everyone with their conservative dreams or destitute schemes to get lost. Overall thoroughly enjoyable...more
