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On a private adult phone-sex line, Jim, a West Coaster in his late 20s, connects with East Coast Abby. Birds of a feather--both of them witty, obsessive, yuppie masturbators--they're off, trading stories and fantasies and the psychopathologies of everyday life. Baker (The Mezzanine, Room Temperature), heretofore more a monologist, a literary performance artist, than much of a novelist, folds his deadpan honesty and funny fussiness double--and though Jim and Abby finally seem so much like the same voice that they don't really qualify as characters, they don't have to: Baker has found a conceptual format, the phone sex, perfectly tailored to his talents. This is a mini-epic of Big Chill--ed safe-sex: rambling stories that start out as aids to titillation but dry and crumble into homely and self-satisfied details that challenge eroticism; the overturning of classical seduction theory (here, both the man and woman, unseen to each other, know that the other has his/her hand on his/her self); lots of little snappy apercus and joshings establish intellectual coziness. The tropes of modern sex--olive oil, VCRs, copying machines, the letters in Penthouse Forum--are traded breezily, sometimes hilariously, but are nothing compared to the main technological thrill; after Abby tells him exactly how she masturbates in the shower, Jim (in the book's best and most concentrated moment) declares it a miracle, ```a telephone conversation I want to have. I love the telephone.''' And Baker does expose a strange kind of dignity, in that Jim and Abby aren't using each other for very much more than as instruments of exemption from embarrassment. Quite a literary season for self-relief! First Harold Brodkey as the Mahler, the Liszt, of the hand-job, now Nicholson Baker as its David Letterman. -- Copyright ©1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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From Library Journal
Jim and Abby meet over the phone when they both dial one of those 976 party lines that are advertised in adult magazines. After some exploratory small talk, they retire to the electronic "back room" for a more intimate chat. Their long conversation makes up the entire book. If the premise sounds a bit thin, remember that Nicholson Baker's brilliant first novel The Mezzanine ( LJ 11/1/88) was about an office worker's lunch-hour expedition to buy new shoelaces. Like all great artists, Baker has the ability to make familiar objects and everyday events seem new and strange. Centerfolds, lingerie catalogs, and X-rated videos will never look the same. Indeed, Vox transforms the genre itself: this is eroticism for the safe-sex Nineties. Not only is there no physical contact, the participants never leave the privacy of their own homes. Recommended, with the caveat that some readers may find the subject matter offensive. Baker's Room Temperature ( LJ 3/15/90) was one of LJ 's "Best Books of 1990" ( LJ 1/91).--Ed.
- Edward B. St. John, Loyola Law Sch. Lib., Los Angeles
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
- Edward B. St. John, Loyola Law Sch. Lib., Los Angeles
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
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I found this book to be very interesting - I read it in one afternoon! One man and one woman talk about their sexual fantasies - the whole book is one conversation! I could relate to the man's thoughts more, since I am a man, and the woman's thoughts are very bizarre and erotic at the same time - it would be interesting to know if Mr. Baker interviewed women on those subjects. The two characters don't act fast, they have very very "slow" phone sex, which is so much more erotic!
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Nicholson Baker has given his readers a smart, somewhat sexy, look at the ironic ways we try to reach out to others -- in some pretty selfish ways! -- in the modern era. His two characters, Jim and Abby, are at once trying to find some sort of soul mate, yet both seem to derive the most sexual pleasure from stimulating themselves.
Interesting, too, how the fantasies each spins for the other crumble and lose their erotic edge in the telling. I especially thought I was going to scream with Abby's olive oil story -- how dare she leave me hanging like that? But that, I guess, is part of the point of taking self-indulgence to such an extreme that the telling of the story overshadows the intent behind the story. At least the last fantasy gets played to its conclusion...
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I am now hooked on Nicholson Baker's writing! As a person who has an aural fixation, Vox is very satisfying even though it's on paper. From the minute I picked up Baker's novel I could not put it down. Even though this novel is told solely in dialogue form, it doesn't lose anything in the telling. Baker is an excellent storyteller; his attention to detail is superb. His characters' personalities are revealed to us as the story unfold and make no mistake they are not one-track minded beings just wanting to get off, or are they? The dialogue is witty, honest, evocative, sassy and at times as off shooting as we tend to be in real life.
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Sexy and funny
Truthful, smart and unoffencive. It is hard to find a erotic novel where the woman doesn't submit in some ways of herself to gain pleasure. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 17. Juni 2000 von yanipoo
Sexy and funny
Truthful, smart and unoffencive. It is hard to find a erotic novel where the woman doesn't submit in some ways of herself to gain pleasure. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 17. Juni 2000 veröffentlicht
more kosher sex
It's embarrassing to admit how much fun this book is. On top of the erotic content, Baker is just hilariously funny and on target. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 30. Mai 2000 von M. H. Bayliss
Call in sick for work, and dial up this book!
A remarkably sensitive and erotic dialogue between two people jumping into the abyss of pre-Internet phone communication, distant, far apart voices reaching out, touching each... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 17. Mai 2000 von J. Gifford
Good, not great
I found Vox to be a very well written book that is more about the vulnerabilities and emptiness of the characters than about sex. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 1. März 2000 veröffentlicht
Vox
I read this book along with my book club as one of our Y2K selections. I must say that this was the poorest excuse for literature that I have ever read! Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 20. Februar 2000 veröffentlicht
Truly a mind numbing experiance
After hearing about this book in the media I don't know how many times, I had to try it out for myself.
I have never read such mind numbing tripe! Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 6. Januar 2000 von Sean Aune
A "best" book of Amazon Moonies
Stephen King who on his worst day could write circles around Baker has accurately described this book as "miserable". Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 1. Oktober 1999 veröffentlicht
Tantalizing
This book gives light to comedy and sex. I laughed in bed. Baker also shows the phone as being a vulnerable connection tool rather than a long distance sex call. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 14. Mai 1999 veröffentlicht
Unique and Interesting
A well written, interesting, unique book that keeps the reader's attention although it does slip at times. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 28. Februar 1999 veröffentlicht
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