3 of 5 stars ***
Sex in the City or trashy romance novel? I do not know; I am not real familiar with either. I first listen to the sample portion of this audiobook after bypassing the option several times. I laugh and liken it to 50 Shades of Grey. Something about the psyche of a woman spoken in a male locker room vernacular amuses me.
I want to read or listen to a variety of literature that is contemporary as well as historical, instructive and entertaining. Lingus is a novel about the sexual freedom in today's world that offers a woman's honest perspective about sex and dating in these times of instant gratification via cyberspace porn. Mariana Zapata writes well to hold my attention but I am probably not her target audience. I am curious why so many smart, lovely women like to read "trashy romance novels," as they inform me of their reading preference. I know that genre is the most lucrative of genres.
Lingus may be an example of such a story as it centers around one middle class 25-year-old female who thinks she is pretty but not gorgeous. Her fantasy lover meets her in the most inappropriate place while she is picking her underpants out of her butt cheeks. He is every woman's dream who finds her to be the answer to his desires. The rest of the story goes from one relational development to another defining their true feelings for one another.
I look at this book as a reflection on a certain segment of society that is uninhibited by moral, Victorian standards that would have this book banned related to its descriptive intimate moments. Lingus is not literature for one's self-improvement but rather a testament to mankind's lust for the flesh and the world. The author is honest in her writing and shocking in her blatancy. One can understand what compels a writer to compose such literature, sex sells.
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