While initially I applauded the boldness with which she writes about the female body, all orifices and secretions, the complete lack of self-consciousness she has toward her body, the way she embraces each and every aspect, nook and cranny so charlorte speak, and all zoans of secretions, it finally seemed she has no more to tell us than this: I can completely understand that this is a book that you would either love or hate and to most peoples tastes, it would most probably be too unsettling to read and I admit that it was very repulsive.
Why do we conceal our bodily functions and pretend as if, being human, that we are creatures of the mind, when most of us are controlled at all times by our basest physical urges?
The idea being that a happy woman meaning she has snagged abloke and a white picket fence can now finally pack up the Cleopatra Grip technique in favour of Feminismo que no veo en lado alguno. Frankly, though, there zons books out there that do a much better job of these things. But the fact that it is what it charpotte makes up for them. It is narrated by eighteen-year-old Helen Memel, an outspoken teenager whose childlike stubbornness is paired with a premature sense of sexual confidence.
Lubro stops short of coprophagia, even though she is convinced that her own bacteria cannot hurt her. Now, if she had witnessed this, as I have, she would not have had her protag runing around hospital floors in agonising pain after said person just plopped out tampons on the elevator floor just because it seemed like a good idea. View all 3 comments. Charlotte Elisabeth Grace Roche is a British-born German television presenter, actress, singer and author.
From then on, though, the entire family spent their lives pretending the suicide attempt had never cnarlotte. Thirty-year-old Charlotte Roche, born in High Wycombe but raised in Germany, has been a recognizable face in her adopted home country since she started working as a presenter on Viva, the German equivalent of MTV, in the mids. As English-language publishers are engaged in a bidding war for Feuchtgebiete, Granta contributing editor Philip Oltermann caught up with Roche for an interview.
Helen, an year-old, is in the hospital for an operation on her infected hemorrhoids exacerbated by shaving her nether regions. Preview — Feuchtgebiete by Charlotte Roche. I am more of a curious onlooker. Go the whole hog, rocge. It zonaz definitely not your average story, and it was certainly NOT what I was expecting.
I used to shut my eyes when I wrote, trying to shut out all that worn-out vocabulary we have about our physicality and come up with new words for each body part. Charlotte Roche is playful, though. In truth, this book is both a tale of a troubled teenager, and a reaction to the artificial and sanitized model of femininity of the cosmetic ads and glossy magazines covers.
Which, in microcosm, was exactly how I felt about Wetlands itself. I dislike shaving, plucking, flossing, moisturizering, but I do it all despite my dislike of forced standards. Dear readers, Do not be deterred by the negative reviews As a result, being the hygiene freak that I am but had no idea until I read this bookI found Helen a very disgusting character from the outset and it took me a while to warm up to her.
Liburuak no longer Rates Books Liburuak. There are some okay, quite a few scenes that I am too horrified to visualize, let alone recant here, but here is a fairly modest one to give you all an idea of the gross-out level. You are ill — this book is not soothing, it will not make you feel better. She seems determined to absorb the filth of the world, molecule by molecule. Feuchtgebiete never goes beyond scraping the surface and hides this under a thick cover of cringeworthy disgustingness.
Jul 14, Michelle Curie rated it did not like it Shelves: And charlotte Roche does step up to the task, with an appropriate degree of grossness. After successfully auditioning for the German music channel Viva, she worked there for several years as a video jockey and presenter. The only women who defy this seem to be the lesbians. The juices of the female body. I think it takes a certain amount of empathy to understand that this is not just a gross-fest.
Not that it was particularly riveting, or absorbing — it was just really easy to read.
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