Tipping the Velvet (Virago V)
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 | Product Details: Paperback 472 pages Release Date: 04 March 1999 Publisher: Virago Press Ltd ISBN: 1860495249 Rating:   Sales Rank: 3931 | | Look for similar books by subject:
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| | Customer Reviews: Still think about this book (18 June 2010)I read this one after reading Fingersmith and Affinity and I have to say its one of those books that doesn't leave me and I constantly think about what the main character is doing today *silly me* overrated- lesbian porno (07 May 2010)Dribble coining the phrase of another critic. I think the aim was meant to be racey but the sex scenes just left me bored to tears. I enjoyed Fingersmith (I loved the main character in this particular novel book), but the characters in this book are a load of rubblish. I can't believe they made it into a DVD. The plot was ropey, and I couldn't get into the characters. How on earth can this book be described as a page turner? Stick to mysteries and ditch the lesbian porn Waters. Im being generous with three stars. Achingly well written (22 April 2010)All right, so I'm a heterosexual bloke - but what's wrong with that? Before I read Sara Walters I thought lesbianism was all about women having sex with women. It's more than that of course - it's about women who love women. On a lower level then, as a man, you're going to find a bit of titliation here, and that's why you're interested and probably why you watched the TV series, right? But really, once you calm down a bit you'll realise this is a love story, and I thought a very good one - bursting with period detail and achingly well written. Period romp (25 February 2010)Tipping the Velvet is a colourful and lively novel in the tradition of feminist greats such as Carter's Wise Children and Woolf's Orlando. This style makes it quite a different type of novel to Waters' later works such as Fingersmith and the Little Stranger, despite its 19th century setting. The novel is a bawdy yarn and certainly not for the prudish. There's plenty of sex, but it's never gratuitous and is always closely tied into the plot. Waters makes lesbian London of the 1890s really come alive. The unidealised characters are well crafted and the descriptions of music halls and mansions vivid and memorable. The novel is extremely funny at times, but can also be melancholy. Tipping the Velvet loses some of its sparkle during the last third and the conclusion seems a little false, but overall its a great novel and well worth a read. The brilliant Sarah Waters (03 September 2009)Really knows how to keep the interest going ...without going over the top. Non gays are allowed to love this book too I hope? The settings in the book are so well portrayed you'd swear Ms Waters had lived way back then. The lifestyle, both decadent and wretched comes through on every page, the characters become so real one wants to get back to them as soon as possible. A rattling good "costume" drama. | |
