Fear of Flying

This book is awful. I kept reading it thinking itd get better, just to realize it was just plain awful. The main character is infuriating and the weakest, dumbest female character ever. Dont bother.

For whatever reason (possibly because someone I recommended it to wasn't that thrilled by it), I feel a bit like I need to defend this book lately, and since I reviewed it when I first joined this site and most people were writing shorter reviews, I'd like to give it a better write-up. The premise of......more

iw69: hello. i want you now mannyrayner: do we know each other? iw69: not at all, that's the point. i thought we could just have a completely no-strings-attached sexual encounter for its own sake, and then say goodbye. wouldn't that be poetic and beautiful? mannyrayner: um, well, maybe. i'm sorry, i gu......more

I read this shortly after it came out in paperback (probably 1974ish). I probably should reread it when I'm old and gray. Wait, I am old and gray. 😳......more

Eons ago, I'd heard this book consisted wholely of sex & zipless fucks. Surprise! Jong writes insightfully about the between-a-rock-and-a-hard-place that women resided in during the early 1970s, and at times still do. The protagonist isn't what I consider terribly likable, yet her bold intelligence,......more

I found myself walking round this book and poking it nervously instead of reading it. This went on for days. Fear of Flying - famously feisty, fearless, feminist and full of fucking. Also well known to be zipless. It was like having a landmine on the table, if I opened it I could lose a leg, or some......more