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| The Stone Gods | 
 enlarge | Author: Jeanette Winterson
Publisher: Penguin
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 80370
Media: Paperback
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 4.8 x 0.9
ISBN: 014103260X
EAN: 9780141032603
ASIN: 014103260X
Publication Date: July 3, 2008
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 starts with promise September 23, 2008
I have to admit that I quite enjoyed the first half of this book, athough the writing style took a little getting used to, but then after the first section the story just peters out and is not very easy to follow, and to be honest it just becomes very dull and tedious.
I feel that if the book had been a novella, and had ended at the end of the first section of the story (about half the book) then I would have enjoyed it a lot more. As it is, it just becomes dull, tedious and confusing and was not a pleasure to read. I wish I had stopped after the first section.
I cannot recommend this book, although I am told that some of her other work is of a higher standard.
 lemmings? July 22, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Jeanette Winterson - you either love her writing or you don't - very few will fall between.
The Stone Gods
I am hooked on this book, as I am `The Passion' and Wolfe's `Orlando'.
It's a very accessible read with an abundance of ideas.
Stories within a story - a fiction ripping through time and space - it's a projection of today's realities giving a plausible prediction of tomorrow's possibilities - with an imaginary interlude, a rewrite of the past.
Wide ranging, far reaching - thought provoking.
Essentially the theme is of mankind's appetite for destruction - fueled by our lust for material possession, our collective habitual greed, our addiction to consume.
Our ability to read the future and do absolutely nothing - except accelerate what we do at suicidal pace.
We can do little to help ourselves.
Our loves our loss and our ultimate stupidity.
History repeating itself - how often have we found paradise - and just how long would do we allow it to last?
 worst than gut symmetries... June 13, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
After the brilliance of Lighthousekeeping JW slumps back to more recent form with this atrocious book. I've bought all JW's books over the years, but have to admit this is the first one i couldn't finish. Dull & uninspiring.
Daft woman doesn't think her book is Science Fiction April 4, 2008
0 out of 13 found this review helpful
Until she's proud of what she's written and less bothered about winning some literature prize - I suggest you do not bother buying her books.
 Thoughtful if a bit sentimental February 18, 2008
13 out of 15 found this review helpful
If you're thinking about buying this book, you're going to get no help at all in your decision-making from its jacket. This book sports not a single review quotation. Not on the front cover nor on the back cover. Not in support of the blurb on the front flap nor after the biography on the back flap. And not on any of the eight blank pages at the end of the book that make you think there'll be another twist to the story when in fact it's finished (don't you just hate that?).
Jeanette Winterson's The Stone Gods needs, it seems, no introduction, no recommendation, no testimonial. Jeanette Winterson is Literature, so the newspaper reviewers tell me. They also tell me that this story belongs to that category known as sci-fi. Does it? That's news to me. I don't do sci-fi. If it is sci-fi, it's in the tradition of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale rather than Frank Herbert's Dune.
The novel comes in three parts. Three apocalyptic scenarios. The same story; the story of how the human race can bring about its environment's complete destruction, without thinking about it until it's too late. Scary stuff. Depressing stuff too.
There are also three love stories - all rather too sentimental for my taste. Too many long sentences weaving poetically around at 11 at night (the only time this tired mother-of-two gets to read) do me no good at all. But then there are two 'hidden' love stories - the love a tiny baby has for its mother and the love we all have for Earth, our home - which really began to hit some vein of truth.
Although this will not rate as my favourite book of all time, it did make me think. About climate change, about rampant consumerism and where it might lead us. About what it would take to shake the West out of its blind adoration of the great god Economic Growth, and about what might happen if it's already too late. It also got me thinking about extinction. Not just the extinction of the dinosaurs, nor of hundreds of species of plants and animals each day, but my own extinction, and by extension the extinction of the planet. It made me feel what it might be like to know for certain there is no hope. No life after death. No new blue planet to migrate to in silver spaceships when we're done destroying this one.
And the book made me cry.
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