tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7492889481663521911.post5654026272930646598..comments2023-12-03T20:07:04.781+11:00Comments on Lexicon Harlot: Good Lord.Alexis, Baron von Harlothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04675225579658733004noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7492889481663521911.post-77593302587371922092009-04-15T21:56:00.000+10:002009-04-15T21:56:00.000+10:00I'm not anti-HG, or even anti-The Spare Room. I li...I'm not anti-HG, or even anti-The Spare Room. I like a narrator I don't like (goes for David Lurie in <I>Disgrace</I> as well as for Helen in <I>TSR</I>), but - except for its debunking the woman-as-natural-carer myth, for what that's worth - I still can't imagine a reading that has <I>TSR</I> depicting women in a positive way. A rounded, psychologically interesting way, but not a "positive" one.Alexis, Baron von Harlothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04675225579658733004noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7492889481663521911.post-26646746034199842642009-04-15T20:51:00.000+10:002009-04-15T20:51:00.000+10:00Gosh, did we read the same book?!? Iwas telling A...Gosh, did we read the same book?!? Iwas telling AustLit students just last week that Helen Garner elicits polarised responses from readers. It never stops being surprising when that is actually demonstrated, though.lucy tartanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09244574932248425378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7492889481663521911.post-89034865749439820132009-04-15T10:22:00.000+10:002009-04-15T10:22:00.000+10:00Yes. It's not that The Spare Room doesn't have its...Yes. It's not that <I>The Spare Room</I> doesn't have its merits, and there's something painfully appealing about its narrator's sheer loathsomeness, but how the judges persuaded themselves that its unempathic narrator and her manipulative patient empower the status of women (whatever that means) I cannot begin to imagine.Alexis, Baron von Harlothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04675225579658733004noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7492889481663521911.post-34707652544935484572009-04-15T09:46:00.000+10:002009-04-15T09:46:00.000+10:00It is all very odd. I believe that the wording in ...It is all very odd. I believe that the wording in the word was specified in the bequest that funds the award.<br /><br />As to the choice of this year's winner. Well....last year's was a better choice.DShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15287933905370786159noreply@blogger.com