Wetlands By Charlotte Roche
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An international sensation—with more than one million copies sold in Germany, and rights snapped up in twenty-seven countries—Wetlands is the sexually and anatomically explicit novel that is changing the conversation about female identity and sexuality around the world
Helen Memel is an outspoken, contradictory eighteen-year-old, whose childlike stubbornness is offset by a...more

Published October 2008 by Rizzoli (first published 2008)

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Aug 10, 2009Michelle rated it did not like it · review of another edition

Everyone says that this book is super gross. Honestly, I wasn't grossed out or amused by any of it. When I wasn't bored, I was annoyed. The 'gross-out' parts made me feel like the book was written by a teenage boy with ridiculous fantasies of what women do behind closed doors. The stories Helen shared about things like spreading bacteria or what she did with avocado pits made me feel less like she was a strong woman with a 'who-gives-a-crap' attitude, and more like she was just a perverted pre-t...more

Jan 09, 2011Mag rated it really liked it · review of another edition

It’s a book with a buzz. It’s the first German book to top the lists of Amazon bestsellers, and the one to which reviews referred to as a ‘feminist manifesto bordering pornography’. In truth, this book is both a tale of a troubled teenager, and a reaction to the artificial and sanitized model of femininity of the cosmetic ads and glossy magazines covers.
Helen, an 18-year-old heroin, desperately needs warmth and attention, but nobody really cares about her. She wants love; she wants her parents...more

May 27, 2008Jessica rated it it was ok · review of another edition

When I was a kid, losing myself in stories and in novels, I sometimes wondered why we never read about characters going to the bathroom. Or the outhouse: Why didn't we ever see Laura do that in 'Little House on the Prairie?' Fiction seemed unrealistic to me, as a result, and I thought that when I wrote books myself, I would do it differently.
Charlotte Roche appears to be single-handedly making up for this lack in her novel 'Wetlands.' Problem is: I have to keep reminding myself it is fiction and...more

Jun 26, 2011Amy rated it did not like it · review of another edition

Shelves: the-hunt-for-the-worst-book-ever, i-m-gettingn-too-old-for-this-shit, not-good

Oh my good God.
Dude.
I can't even -
Ok.
There's a weird thing that sometimes happens where people think that if a book is insistently explicit sexually without coming close to being porn, or even slightly titillating, it must be important. We can call this the Palahniuk Principle. (I mean, right now we can call it that; eventually, we'll move on with our lives and forget that it ever came up).
The thing is, though, these books seldom actually are important. Being sexual without being sexy is not a...more

Dec 14, 2010

Wetlands By Charlotte Roche

Stephanie (Stepping out of the Page) rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: read-in-2011, adult-fiction, books-i-own, realistic-fiction, translated

This book was certainly 'different'. It was absolutely disgusting and made me cringe at most points and laugh at a few, but I was still strangely intrigued by this book. I think the reason why I most enjoyed this book was seeing courage that Roche had to approach the very 'taboo' subjects that it deals with. I've never read anything like this and I wouldn't like to read more, I think I only found this interesting because it's the first of its type that I've read. I can completely understand that...more

Jul 07, 2009tee rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Absolutely loved it. It's been a while since I've picked up a book and haven't been able to put it down - Wetlands gave me this pleasure. Not that it was particularly riveting, or absorbing - it was just really easy to read. For me that is, though I guess I can understand why some people had an aversion to the content. People who are uptight about their bodies, or who prefer to avoid thinking about the fact that our bodies secrete substances and smell weird and so on and so forth.
It was so refr...more

Oct 28, 2011Brad rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: curiousity-killed-the-bananas, feminist-lit, lost-in-translation, secret-history, sexuality, wonderfully-smutty, x-acto-knives-are-nice-and-shiny

The In Your Face Sexuality-- This is the book's greatest strength, and the one part of the book I genuinely loved. Whether Helen – an eighteen year old in hospital for anal surgery to excise an infected haemorrhoid -- was talking about her reasons and methods of shaving body hair, masturbating with her fingers or avacado pits, or leaving behind drops and smears of menstrual blood for others to find and be scandalized by, I was fascinated, titillated and cheering in equal measure.
I loved that her...more

May 12, 2014Erika Schoeps rated it really liked it · review of another edition

My friend pushed this book onto me, insisting that I read it. I checked it out on Goodreads, and read 1 star review after 1 star review calling this book 'the worst book ever'. I opened 'Wetlands' expecting something terrible.
This book isn't terrible, this book is fantastic. Yes, things can get a little gross, but its not like the main character's behavior is completely unnatural. And, in the end, I think the author proved the exact point she was trying to make as people (especially women) respo...more

Apr 10, 2009Darlene rated it did not like it · review of another edition

This book starts out 'As far back as I remember, I've had hemorrhoids.' and only goes downhill from there. There's been alot of buzz around this book and its 'new feminism', but there's really nothing worthwhile about this book. I'll give the book one star just in case something was lost in translation, but the writing was horrible, there is no plot, and is trying to shock just for the cheap shock value.

Apr 11, 2015knig rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: over-egging-the-pudding, whatthe-hell, 2015

Good for the way it ends: just like in ‘les amants de pont neuf’, and not so good for the way it begins: just like Triers’ ‘Nymphomaniac’.
As to the denoument: a good book to read on the back of Geoff Dyer’s ‘Jeff in Venice, Death in Varnasi’. Where the narrative learns you (sic) that life is a pile of shite, and then...you die. Here, though, be an alternative ending: Find the pearl in the poo. Heres cheers to happy endings.
As to the beginning: well sigh. Another one of them abouts women who onl...more

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