For me Erica jong is always writing about writing, like language poets she is beautifully weaving a story with words about words. she isn't Woolf but she is wonderful in seducing the Demons. In this book however, I cant really see the same spark. My favourite part of this book include the poem about the horses, her relation with her grandfather, the funeral scene and the snow set scenes.

Beautifully gifted artist writer with a wry yet good humored, worldview and a penchant for adventure!

Esse livro é um romance autobiográfico e quem segue a trajetória da autora vai reconhecer vários dos comentários que ela faz, devidamente com nomes trocados, sobre o que aconteceu a ela.

O que é fato e o que é romance? Difícil dizer, principalmente porque a escritora faz questão de lembrar que a verdade é mais estranha que a ficção.

Isadora, alter ego de Erica Jong, estrela esse terceiro livro (sendo os dois primeiros Medo de Voar e Salve Sua Vida) com a típica justaposição de fatos e a reconhecível "zeitgeist" dos romances escritos nos anos 80.

Em outras palavras: um monte de psicologia barata, uma vida sexual aberta que abusa do lirismo para desculpar a quebra das regras sociais e por fim, o relato dos problemas que a quebra dos paradigmas provocados pelos anos 60 e 70 causaram. É incrível comentar sobre os seus anos de hippie, mas não tão incrível escrever sobre todas as falhas e deturpações que esse estilo de vida alternativo tem.

Embora extremamente intimista e de uma honestidade crua em relação a si mesmo, onde a autora abusa da esperança apresentada por quem já não tem motivos para tê-la, o livro não tem um motivo para ser.

Como o próprio nome sugere, a personagem principal cai de situação em situação sem ser verdadeiramente a motivadora dos acontecimentos, e sua atitude passiva é enfurecedora pois é mostrada não apenas nela, mas em toda a geração que a cerca.

Pára-quedas e Beijos pode ser intimidante pela trama confusa e, às vezes, repetitiva. Mas isso parece ter sido justamente o objetivo da autora.

Read this in college, and still remember it fondly. In fact, I liked it much more than Fear of Flying.

I consider Erica Jong an American treasure so I can’t really give her less than 4 stars, but wow this book is disappointing. What I really don’t understand is why the switch to 3rd person here when 1st used for this character in previous books?
It’s also just so meandering and tangent-y. Slightly redeemed by trip to Russia in the end.

I remember truly enjoying this book when I read it...but I was still in high school and probably did not have the best of taste.

I don't really think I'll read it again, although I suppose I should at one point.

dnf at 53

I had absolutely nothing stand out to me in this book. I really wanted to read it, and was a bit excited for the idea of the book, but it just seemed the deeper and deeper I read into it, the more and more bored I got.

Read 1997

My all time favorite character written by my all time favorite author. What's not to love? If you haven't read "Fear of Flying" yet don't even go here.

The move from first person to close third did not serve this book series very well,

First Printing, no jacket

Props to Jong for pioneering middle-aged women horniness in fiction. Not to say this book was good. It was not.

I'd forgotten about P&K until I was reading a tampon scene in All Fours by Miranda July, and it all came flooding (sorry!) back to me where I'd read about tampons in a sexual context before.

At least in Jong's world, the older woman and younger man have actual sex, even if it's super gross.

And I sure remembered this scene however many years later. Thirty? Forty?

Here's to another generation passing before someone decides to write the sexy tampon scene again. Maybe in the future, women won't have periods.

And if they invent that Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind thing where you can purge memories, sign me up.