I can't resist me

Author: Erica Gong
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Publication Date: 1998-07-01
Features: When this book was first published in the United States, author John Updike praised it in The New Yorker magazine as "a female Catcher in the Rye." A few months later, Henry Miller described it in The New York Times with fervent ink as "a female Tropic of Cancer." By then, I Can't Stop Myself was already a household name but practically unobtainable. Today, this book is listed as a course in American universities, it has become an introductory guide for teenagers to understand sex, women have learned how to liberate themselves through it, and men have gained a calm understanding of women through it. This book has become a sensational event, not just a book; people discuss it, praise it, and criticize it. Have men changed? Or have women changed? Or have both changed? – This is an irresistible question.Facing this controversial female autobiographical novel that stirred fierce debate in the United States, what are your thoughts?