The Bloody Chamber

First story fine then gone virginal, vulgar and sexual.

I think the idea is that despite women being put in terrible situations of roles they can be liberated here by shamelessly getting the bad male roles, acting just as bad as them and this probably stems from the author's fascination with Sade (These are assumptions by me tho). I don't think that's the best of ideas (Not all of the stories explore this idea).

These stories are super descriptive and have little plot which I am not used to, a couple went over my head and had to go back a bit. Disgustingly beautiful, but there are parts which are just disgusting. The sentences were so long and some techniques I would expect in poetry were present that I thought this might be considered as verse, but it is not. This tells me I need to read poetry for real, I have read way too little and maybe find more of this descriptive prose.

I am actually not familiar with fairy tales at all which is odd, but yeah maybe I should read the originals sometime! Like I read/heard/watched them as a child, and I somewhat know the outlines, but I don't know them that well.