M Blumenthal wrote: If you think TATOO is obsessively sexual,
how about GARDEN OF SAND, which aside from being about the
dark side of living in the depression has many episodes of
Jack's attempts to to have sex with his mother from the age
of about seven until he is at about age fourteen and climaxes
when he succeeds?
*************** I make a big distinction between GARDEN OF
SAND and TATTOO. I don't deny the strong sexual content of
GARDEN OF SAND, and I don't deny that Jack was sexually
obsessed, but it was just a piece of the bigger picture which
involved a stunning portrayal of the characters and their
struggle to get by. In TATTOO, the book is obsessed with sex,
and everything else runs a very poor second.
GARDEN OF SAND is a great work. TATTOO is second-rate
softcore porn.
miker
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