Nights at the Circus

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  Very hard to classify this book. The story outline is typical of many fantasy genre works but the execution fits right in to the English tradition of whimsical Dickensian characters and elaborately talky gothic plots.

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  Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter

  Nights at the Circus was the bibliogoth book for October and on the whole it was met with some rather negative reviews, most people hadn’t finished it. On the whole I didn’t really like it all that much. I don’t really like books about circuses, there are ... (continue)

  Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter

  Nights at the Circus was the bibliogoth book for October and on the whole it was met with some rather negative reviews, most people hadn’t finished it. On the whole I didn’t really like it all that much. I don’t really like books about circuses, there are only 2 exceptions Geek Love and the Caligari Carnival. I found the style did not appeal to me. It was a book where a lot was happening; I just didn’t care enough about the characters to make it worth it. It was oddly feminist, there were MANY references to penises, there were lots of ex-prostitutes, and the women all had back-stories explaining who they were, and none of the men did. It felt rather disjointed and uneven, but it did get better the more I read. There were some quite nice bits; I particularly liked the women’s prison and the nice Russian lesbian. (It may not be a coincidence that all the parts I liked involved lesbians). But on the whole I found it rather disappointing. I do enjoy the re-writing of fairy tales and think perhaps we should have read Jane Yolen’s Briar Rose of Sherri S. Tepper’s Beauty instead, both of which I remember as being very good.

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  Robot-mel said on Nov 11, 2007 | Add your feedback

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• English Books
• Paperback 368 Pages
• Edition: New Ed
• ISBN-10: 0099388618
• ISBN-13: 9780099388616
• Publisher: Vintage U. K.
• Pub date: Jan 01, 1994
• Dimensions: 1226 mm x 839 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
• Also available as: Hardcover
• In other languages: other languages 繁體書, Deutsche Bücher, Libros en Español, Libri Italiani

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