Book Description: "Compulsive daydreamer Isadora Wing doesn't want much - just to be free and to find the perfect, guiltless, zipless sexual encounter. Pursuing this ideal across two continents, she discovers just how hard it can be to make one's dreams come true. Though Isadora fears flying, she forces herself to keep travelling, risking her marriage and even her life for her own special brand of liberation. This intensely witty and exuberant novel is about how Isadora gains her freedom and loses her fear." What we discussed about the book: Overall, everyone who read the book seemed to enjoy it, but just didn't rate it that highly. Isadora seemed to most of us to be quite self-involved, although we questioned whether that is necessarily a bad thing. There were quite a few a-ha moments. For example, Isadora wondering "where the women were who were really free, who didn't spend their lives bouncing from man to man, who felt complete with or without a man", and her questions about marriage p87 " Would most women get married if they knew what it meant?..." For all Isadora's talk of independence she didn't make a liberated decision in the end. Things we didn't like: No-one really liked Adrian. The book just seemed to amble along and had no real climax. We all disliked the dirty places she stayed while with Adrian, and her being totally unprepared for her period. Jack, who loved it when she first read it as a teenager, didn't find it as good this time around. Who we would cast in the movie version of the book: And then we were sidetracked into: And in other news: Ratings average: 5.9 Ratings range: 5 - 6.5 (4 DNRs)
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