No fucking way! Guess what I am reading right now at this very instant? Yes, The Magic Toyshop. (Good guess.)
I'm a long time fan of Carter, both her fiction and non-fiction.
Did you know The Magic Toyshop was made into a movie? I barely remember it. It was very lo-fi indie or possibly British TV production that's hard to see.
I have a slight preference for her early seventies work which was a bit more radical and surreal, than her later novels (which are admittedly excellent). I'm kind of an outlier in really loving The Passion of New Eve which is a very transgressive, transgender-y novel. Vaguely reminiscent of J.G. Ballard's Vermillion Sands stories. But her short story collections, Fireworks and The Bloody Chamber, are essential.
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Date: 2009-11-18 04:54 am (UTC)I'm a long time fan of Carter, both her fiction and non-fiction.
Did you know The Magic Toyshop was made into a movie? I barely remember it. It was very lo-fi indie or possibly British TV production that's hard to see.
I have a slight preference for her early seventies work which was a bit more radical and surreal, than her later novels (which are admittedly excellent). I'm kind of an outlier in really loving The Passion of New Eve which is a very transgressive, transgender-y novel. Vaguely reminiscent of J.G. Ballard's Vermillion Sands stories. But her short story collections, Fireworks and The Bloody Chamber, are essential.