Rico's writing the wrong stuff, obviously

The New York Times reports the recent success of the new novel Feuchtgebiete ("Wetlands", auf Deutsch) by Charlotte Roche: "Since its debut in February, the novel has sold more than 680,000 copies, becoming the only German book to top Amazon.com’s global best-seller list... The book, which will be published next year in the United States, is a headlong dash through every crevice and byproduct, physical and psychological, of its narrator’s body and mind. It is difficult to overstate the raunchiness of the novel... Wetlands opens in a hospital room after an intimate shaving accident. It gives a detailed topography of Helen’s hemorrhoids, continues into the subject of anal intercourse, and only gains momentum from there, eventually reaching avocado pits as objects of female sexual satisfaction and — here is where the debate kicks in — just possibly female empowerment... Ms. Roche, 30, has long identified herself as a feminist and, in a vein first explored in 1960s-era American feminism, describes the book as a cri de coeur against the oppression of a waxed, shaved, douched and otherwise sanitized women’s world."

Rico says the avocado pit thing doesn't work well, and advises against it... (Kids, don't try this at home.)