QuoteAs it opens, we find 18-year-old narrator Helen Memel in hospital, after an accident shaving her intimate parts. The remainder of the book plays out entirely on the proctology ward where, in between ruminating on her haemorrhoids and sexual proclivities, Helen asks her male nurse to photograph her wound, tries to seduce him, and hides under her bed to masturbate. She has an insatiable, childlike curiosity about the sight and smell and taste of bodies, especially her own. She is also exuberantly promiscuous. Hygiene, she reflects, "is not a major concern of mine". When she uses public toilets, she likes to rub her vagina around the lavatory seat, and she has experimented with "long periods of not washing my pussy", to investigate its erotic impact - dabbing her own personal pubic perfume behind her earlobes. "It works wonders from the moment you greet someone with a kiss on each cheek."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/jan/17/interview-charlotte-roche-debut-novel-wetlands
:eek:
Oh my God! I
have got to read this book. Sounds freaky!
QuoteHygiene, she reflects, "is not a major concern of mine". When she uses public toilets, she likes to rub her vagina around the lavatory seat, and she has experimented with "long periods of not washing my pussy", to investigate its erotic impact - dabbing her own personal pubic perfume behind her earlobes. "It works wonders from the moment you greet someone with a kiss on each cheek."
And for some reason this made me think not of LMNO, but Nigle's pod casts. :?
I've never read the book, but Charlotte Roche is quirky and bold.
She looks like someone who's rather careful about her looks and hygiene though, so I'm not sure to what extent the book is autobiographical? Then again I've never stood next to her so fuck knows what she smells like.
She once took her fake front-tooth on a tv interview and lisped through it lol. Cool girl methinks.
Sweet merciful fuck. :lulz:
Quote from: sonne on January 18, 2009, 11:08:12 PM
I've never read the book, but Charlotte Roche is quirky and bold.
She looks like someone who's rather careful about her looks and hygiene though, so I'm not sure to what extent the book is autobiographical? Then again I've never stood next to her so fuck knows what she smells like.
She once took her fake front-tooth on a tv interview and lisped through it lol. Cool girl methinks.
It's not autobiographical at all. Read the article.
Quote from: Nigel on January 18, 2009, 11:24:51 PM
It's not autobiographical at all. Read the article.
Sorry, I was going by something she said before when it came out elsewhere :oops:
Then again she said the main character had similar sexual habits, looked exactly like her, etc. Something along those lines and not that it was autobiographical indeed, though.
I'll read this article fully.