the powerbook

I thought the whole idea of The Powerbook and how this writer Alix used the Internet to write was going to be somewhat interesting. And at times it was. the way Jeanette Winterson used the Powerbook as not really a novel but a list of what i would call mini stories is a really unique idea, but I have seen it better done from other authors. Her use of language to detail the arrangements of love, lust, passion, and sexuality on the platform of the Internet was amusing to some degree. But in the whole she never really went in the deep end with these themes. It almost seemed that these mini stories are just unfinished pieces of work from the narrator or even Winterson herself. I also kept getting lost on to who the narrator was referring to at some points. The imagination all together was pleasing to read in that I liked the ideas of mixing in historical figures as well as myths from around the world.