It was interesting to see how this book divided the group - those for whom it had been a book that showed the way in the 70's, free love, women's rights, sexual liberation, and those of us who were reading it for the first time and thought it dated, boring and not good enough to finish! The character was shallow, the descriptions blah and the story line laughable. We actually decided that it might be a book that would fare better as a work to be discussed by students of 'Women's Studies'!
Isadora Wing, on a trip to Vienna to attend a psychoanalytic congress with her psychiatrist husband,
she meets an uninhibited Laingian analyst who seems the
embodiment of all her steamiest fantasies. He lures her
away from her husband on an existential jaunt across
Europe, sleeping by roadsides, changing partners with
people met at camp-sites, re-evaluating her life in some
painful and funny ways. But the trip proves to be a
journey backward in time as well as a reshuffle of the
present..We didn't see much of the humour but perhaps that is time and age?
Words used to describe it: 70's New York, psycho babble, Woody Allenish,
Forgot to do the marks out of 10 - sorry folks.
Next book
Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi by Geoff Dyer
Next Meeting
January 4 or 5th 2012 - venue to be confirmed.
Christmas Party
Friday 9th December (it does say on the post below 2 December, which I can't make, can people make the 9th?) - any suggestions for venue? We may have to book near to Christmas.
