Sunday, June 08 2008: Some Brotherly Advice
6 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Good novel - great character development - poignant., August 5, 2000
By A Customer
John Gardner does an excellent performance of enticing the reader from the start and seductively inticing you into the novel. The character develops throughout the novel in a complex manner wothy of John Fowles (more synergistic with "The Magus" than "The Collector" or "Daniel Martin." As a female reader and a professor of literature, I am more sensitive to pornagraphic situations than the many readers, however I found the sexual description of oral sex with prostitute "Donnie" to be expecially poignant and representative of my own liciduous upbringing in Indianna than most depictions in literature.
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I have a hard time believing that a professor of literature would use "enticing" twice (with variant spellings) in one sentence. Misspell 'worthy', 'pornographic', 'especially', her home state of Indiana, nor employ non-existent synonyms for lascivious. I'm not sure what my point is, other than, you can't always trust what you read on the Internet.
4.0 out of 5 stars Good novel - great character development - poignant., August 5, 2000
By A Customer
John Gardner does an excellent performance of enticing the reader from the start and seductively inticing you into the novel. The character develops throughout the novel in a complex manner wothy of John Fowles (more synergistic with "The Magus" than "The Collector" or "Daniel Martin." As a female reader and a professor of literature, I am more sensitive to pornagraphic situations than the many readers, however I found the sexual description of oral sex with prostitute "Donnie" to be expecially poignant and representative of my own liciduous upbringing in Indianna than most depictions in literature.
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I have a hard time believing that a professor of literature would use "enticing" twice (with variant spellings) in one sentence. Misspell 'worthy', 'pornographic', 'especially', her home state of Indiana, nor employ non-existent synonyms for lascivious. I'm not sure what my point is, other than, you can't always trust what you read on the Internet.
