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1.The Bloody Chamber by: Angela Carter January 01, 1990
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Years ago, I stumbled onto one of the short stories in this book in another anthology, and loved it. It was called the Erl-King, but I couldn't remember the author, and was never able to find it again. I ordered The Bloody Chamber for the retelling of the Bluebeard story, and was thrilled to find that the Erl-King was one of the other stories. All the stories in this book are wonderful. They are all dark and bloody as any good fairy tale is, and beautifully written. I pined over the Erl-king for years, so it was a joy to reread it, and to find the other tales inside just as good.

2.The magic toyshop by: Angela Carter 1968
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To declare a bias right off, I read the critical reviews and was slightly put off by the summaries which seemed to regard the story as some sort of allegory of the archetypal feminine journey to learn to live in the scary world of men. But nevertheless, I bought it anyway, and read it over the course of an afternoon. Then I read it again. Then I read it again another three times, and tonight I'm going to start reading it a sixth time. To put my cards on the table, if there is a feminine allegory in here, then I can only vaguely feel it, in the manner of someone feeling their way around a dark room. I can guess that the shapes of it are there, but feminine allegories tend to pass straight over my head as something I simply don't understand or even notice. Instead, I found myself ... Read More

3.Nights at the Circus by: Angela Carter February 15, 1985
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I found the narrative style in this work to be a bit like wading through thick mud -- wishing the character would just "get to the point!" It took me months to get three quarters of the way through the book and then I finally gave up. Perhaps I just wasn't in the right frame of mind when I began reading it. Nights at the Circus isn't a bad book -- I know it's one of those "like it or hate it" novels -- I'm certain under the right circumstances it is probably quite fascinating. Who knows, maybe someday I'll pick it up and try again.

4.Burning Your Boats: The Collected Short Stories by: Angela Carter August 01, 1997
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The book of forty-two tales is divided into six sections. The first, Early Work, 1962-6, shows little promise, but highlights the modifier-mania that would seize her career. The Man Who Loved A Double Bass follows the title's theme and ends weakly. A Very, Very Great Lady And Her Son At Home is both banal and dull. The third and final tale, A Victorian Fable (With Glossary), is a classic gimmick tale, in the vein of some of the list stories that a Donald Barthelme would indulge and that Rick Moody would orgasm over. It's told in Cockney rhyming slang, and is less than a page long- the glossary goes on much longer. It's sort of a Jabberwocky about a misogynist. One read, though, is enough to sate. There's nothing needed to learn in a reread, and the actual glossary hangs like a useless appendage- almost like T.S. Eliot's ... Read More

5.On the Fringe by: Chris Crutcher, Ron Koertge, Graham Salisbury, Nancy Werlin, Francess Lin Lantz, Angela Johnson, Jack Gantos, M. E. Kerr, Will Weaver, Alden R. Carter, Joan Bauer April 01, 2001
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Current authors write in response to the tragedies of Columbine and Santana high schools. From their perspectives, you can actually empathize with those teens who see no other way out than violence and self-destruction. Quite amazing!

6.The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman by: Angela Carter March 04, 1986
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This is the second novel I've read by Angela Carter (the first being The Magic Toyshop) and I have noticed that whenever she makes a reference to a person of Afrikan descent, it is always something negative, rude, or condescending. Carter isn't half the writer that AS Byatt is. Save your money and buy yourself some real literature.

7.Wise Children: A Novel by: Angela Carter December 10, 2007
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Originally published in 1991 and newly released in paperback, this final novel by Angela Carter (1940 - 1992) is a riotous, non-stop farce, as filled with twists, turns, travails--and twins-- as anything Shakespeare ever dreamed of. Told by Dora Chance at the age of seventy-five, the novel flashes back to the wildly iconoclastic childhood she shared with her twin sister Nora. "Chance by name. Chance by nature. We were not planned," Dora comments, explaining why they were unacknowledged and ignored by their father Melchior Hazard, the most famous Shakespearean actor of his day. ("The Hazards belonged to everyone," she declares. "They were a national treasure.") Though their father may have been a "national treasure," he was also a self-centered and irresponsible hedonist, and Nora and Dora considered the doting Peregrine ... Read More

8.Villette (Virago Classics) by: Charlotte Bronte September 13, 1990
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"Villette" was Charlotte Bronte's final novel, and while it covers some familiar territory, it doesn't quite live up to the standards of her masterpiece "Jane Eyre", or even the much more cohesive "Shirley". The narrator is yet again a rather plain ordinary woman without many prospects, who must rely upon teaching to make her way in the world, chancing to become a teacher at an established school in France. Yet the narrator, Lucy Snowe, lacks charisma and too often rambles away from the story at hand, making "Villette" a slow-paced read with too little payoff in the end. The story begins with Lucy Snowe living with her godmother, Mrs. Bretton, her son John Graham, and their young visitor, Paulina Home. Lucy details their lives and the relationship between Graham and Polly, before quickly moving on to her time as a companion to a sickly ... Read More

9.The Passion of New Eve (Virago Modern Classics) by: Angela Carter December 27, 1987
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An amazing book--is it still out of print? I found my copy, quite by accident, at the Strand bookstore in NYC. Its got an awful cover, so awful I picked it up just to see what it could possibly be about. It's about an America in the not-so-distant future--an America in the midst of collapse and civil war. Militant blacks, radical feminists, Christian child-crusaders, the scattered remnants of the old authority are all fighting each other in a situation degenerating into an alchemical chaos. Into the midst of all this comes a vain young Englishman. He falls under the spell of a bewitching prostitute, takes up residence with her in a NYC ghetto, impregnates her, and then takes off alone across America in search of further adventure. What he finds, in the middle of the desert, is an underground community of women who take him captive and subject ... Read More

10.The Sadeian Woman: And the Ideology of Pornography by: Angela Carter February 27, 2001
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Angela Carter, is the premier feminist, but this book wasn't quite for me. I had no idea who Marquis de Sade was until I read this book, and I slightly wish I never had. Angela Carter tries to bring life to De Sade's female characters, which she does, but I just couldn't get passed the section where she talks of the women licking men's butts and being connisiuers of poop. Really, I just wish Marquis de Sade's work would be swept under some carpet and never be read.

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