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more about #wetlands budholly101: I read it on the way home from a vacation last week - I don't think it was meant to be erotic, at least I certainly didn't find it to be. The gross o... more » rocknrollunicorn: I really would not classify this as erotica. AT ALL. And I will probably read it. And I occasionally read erotica. more » jemandtheholograms: that was the least erotic book review i have ever read. i think i could more easily get off to a chemistry textbook. more » MarissaExplainsItAll: I think that "Wetlands" is the literary version of Cosmopolitan, only shocking to 15 year old girls. By the time your out of high school, it's either ... more » PhDork: I didn't think it was meant to be erotica... more » mariamariamaria: I'll accept Wetlands as a little feminist (and not just juvenile and gross) if my enjoyment of and delight in being clean is not seen as unfeminist. more » Aesop's Foibles. YES.: Filth is filth, it has nothing to do with being a feminist whatsoever. Trying to out-gross the guys is nothing other than childish and vulgar competit... more » lurkerbynature: Second time trying to post, so if there's a similar post by me already up, sorry. I'm glad that there are places like Jezebel where we can discuss our... more » rocknrollunicorn: Sigh. So many of these comments are trying to dictate how gross the author should have been, or point out where Helen goes too far. Why? First of all,... more » Remedios Varo can't see no huevos.: I think by Helen Memel you meant Divine and by The Wetlands you meant Pink Flamingos. more » counterclockwise's using her promoting-power for good: As someone who read this book when it came out in Germany: DON'T BUY IT! It's boring and badly written. more » nessalicious: Um hi, I've read Wetlands! There is a plot, albeit one which needed a lot more exploring and could have been very interesting were it not for the tota... more » megscissorhands: and if you read the blurb on the cover of the book very, very closely, you will see that a critic compares it to Catcher in the Rye. Which I believe i... more » stoprobbers: Damn, Anna N. Way to take one for the team... more » tscheese: You know, I was thinking about Moe's terrifying Tampon Incident and Sadie's harrowing OMGarlic Encounter, and I was wondering why those pieces seemed ... more » Miss Smith Drank Your Vodka: WHY IS SHE STICKING EVERYTHING IN HER VAGINA??? This doesn't read like feminism to me but the antithesis of it ... a shock book obsessed with the vagi... more » Beat Girl: This has just made me realise one of my pet hates among literature (and stand up comedy too)... stuff that is so obviously made up that it's neither c... more » fluxus flucker: What the hell is feminist about intentionally rubbing any body part in random public bathroom fluids, hairs, etc? You guys are correct, that a lack o... more » BrutallyHonestBabes (aka Mrs. Sarah.of.a.Lesser.Hobbit): Well this is exactly my brand of feminism! I mean, I already have a "Down With Tampons, Up With Tongs" bumper sticker. more » Beat Girl: PSA for any and all young women stumbling across this page: Don't ever fucking stuff your vagina with toilet paper. That is a ridiculously unhealthy i... more » -
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Times Reviewer: Wetlands Not That Original
"I can only wish that the young women who think Wetlands sounds intriguing will head to the erotica section of the nearest women's bookstore first." — Sallie Tisdale, in the Times on Sunday. [NYT] -
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On Grossness: Wetlands Tries To Make Filth A Feminist Issue
Wetlands, Charlotte Roche's tale of anal trauma, will finally be available in the US this week. Follow the jump for one editor's take (spoilers — of both the plot and your appetite — included). More »
