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Valentine's Day (Paperback)

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Disagreeable, dismal, distasteful, and depressing at best--deeply disturbing, depraved, and degenerate at worst--all these adjectives could apply to this perverse St. Valentine's Day love offering from the UK, a gathering of tales of often gruesome revenge of women against men. But, in fact, there's a certain uplift to be enjoyed as the traditionally disenfranchised off their oppressors, covertly or otherwise. Readers will see women depicted as the species' more practical murderers, committing sometimes maliciously premeditated acts of slaughter to achieve freedom, independent wealth, or the peace of mind that comes from definitively resolving "unsatisfactory" situations, according to editor Ellis' introduction. With contributors including Agatha Christie, Fay Weldon, Joyce Carol Oates, and Alice Munro, readers drawn to such nasty delights will find this hard to put down. Whitney Scott
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No wonder the imprint's 'Duck' - but isn't this rather an old-fashioned idea, men as the enemy? Never mind, there isn't a woman alive who couldn't trot out an example, and there's the cream of the crop from both sides of the Atlantic: Joyce Carol Oates, Fay Weldon and the exquisite miniaturist, Alice Munro. Thomas Ellis rehashes familiar headlines (fishy tales are not the least amusing when you're the recipient either), but several historical anecdotes exert a strange fascination. Folly, though, to let slip the catch in her own contribution. And perhaps in that many of the stories rely on a twist on the old saying about the way to a man's heart. Sad but true, too, things can rebound badly, for example, the young heroine, Celine, in Clare Colvin's The Sound of the Horn; revenge is not always sweet. In general, though, these tales are delicious. (Kirkus UK)
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2.0étoiles sur 5 a collection of mind-bogglingly stupid stories, Déc 25 2002
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when i picked this book up at the library and saw artemisia gentileschi's painting, "judith slaying holofernes", on the cover and the title "women against men: revenge stories" i was thinking, "oh boy, this looks like it'll probably have some stories about women getting some sadistic revenge on rapists, or girlfriend/wife beaters, or child molesters or some scumbags like that." i was curious to see what ahem, imaginative forms of revenge some women came up with. i wanted to read these stories and smile or chuckle, and say "yeah! right on!" instead, i found that almost all the stories were incredibly stupid. most of them were either about women getting revenge on cheating husbands, or you couldn't even figure out what form the revenge took (some stories, the revenge just simply seemed nonexistent), or even figure out who was the recipient of the revenge. one of the stories, a mom gets revenge on her slutty daughters by sleeping w/one of the men they were all battling to get into bed! uh, i thought this book was women against men?!?. many of the women characters were spoiled rich wives, or just people you couldn't even really sympathize with because of their pettiness, pathetic-ness, or just plain out crappy personalities. about 20% of the stories the women got revenge through feeding the man something yucky or lethal. not a single rape revenge story. only one story was about revenge on a cruel, physically abusive husband, and in the other stories where the husbands may have been physically abusive, that fact was mentioned nonchalantly, like it takes a backseat to his cheating or calling his wife "fatty" (sticks and stones, people, sticks and stones... if he treats you like crap, leave him!). now, of course cheating is not a good thing, but it's not like women don't cheat either, and there are worse things a person could do to you. human relationships are too complex for cheating to be a crime punishable by death. anyway, i don't think this book is something that feminists can be proud of. the only reason i give this book two stars instead of one is to acknowledge a couple of the decent stories... probably agatha christie's is one of the best of the lot. all i can say is, if you're curious, check it out from your local library, or buy it used at a really cheap price... maybe someone else would find something worthwhile in many of the stories, but for me i found most to be very stupid, either badly/cheesily written, or crappy story-wise.
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