Reading of Winterson's Oranges Part I

[SimonB198207]

the protaganist is named as Jeanette isn't she, or is the US version different?

[ajarman535]

written on the body is my favourite book of all time :)

glorious

[squareguru]

I just read it for the third time a few days ago.

it's amazing.

though it's odd because when I first read the book, I loved the protagonist,

and now I think they're pathetic.

[ajarman535]

i know exactly what you mean

it almost depends on my mood when i'm reading it

but i think he/she earns back a little respect by the time i finish the book

no matter what mood i'm in

he's "fired the past" for her, one could say

[squareguru]

out of curiosity, did you interpret the narrator as male or female? I have this theory that whoever reads the novel interprets it as their interpretation of their own gender.

[ajarman535]

no gender until the bit with Gail actually

then it became male

[endnami]

haha no no i meant that the author discribed me.

but thanks for the rply

:D

[endnami]

damn you described me.... lol

tho i want knowledge and power! for superior status.

oh well i like ur style.

[squareguru]

this took a while to reply, so sorry, but I didn't write this by the way (in case that's what you were implying). Jeanette Winterson wrote this; it's her fictional autobiography.