Candy
Banned upon its initial publication, the now-classic Candy is a romp of a story about the impossibly sweet Candy Christian, a wide-eyed, luscious, all-American girl. Candy a satire of Voltaire’s Candide chronicles her adventures with mystics, sexual analysts, and everyone she meets when she...
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Banned upon its initial publication, the now-classic Candy is a romp of a story about the impossibly sweet Candy Christian, a wide-eyed, luscious, all-American girl. Candy a satire of Voltaire’s Candide chronicles her adventures with mystics, sexual analysts, and everyone she meets when she sets out to experience the world.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780802134295 (0802134297)
Publish date: February 9th 1996
Publisher: Grove Press
Pages no: 224
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Humor,
Comedy,
Literature,
Adult Fiction,
American,
20th Century,
Anthologies,
Erotica,
Collections,
Southern,
Sexuality
I have no idea what I just read. I picked this up because Terry Southern was involved in the creation of Barbarella, so I thought I'd give this book a shot and see what a Terry Southern version of Candide would look like. As it turns out, it would look like a 60s porn film. Or like Barbarella with...
Good Grief! Candy Christian is young, sweet, and beautiful. Candy is naive and she's selfless. All Candy wants is to give of herself. Which is good, because everybody--well, every man, at least--seems to need Candy. All except her daddy, that is. Candy, the novel, is the story of Candy, the gi...
(Longer review is coming)I've wanted to read Southern's books for a while, and finally got around to finishing this and The Magic Christian. I found both quite disappointing, especially this one. I knew to expect graphic content, but I didn't find Candy or other characters very likable. It's hardly ...
This already feels dated, and I'm only about 25 pages into it.
if the difference in appeal between reading pornography and reading erotica is in the artistry of the language and the sophistication & depth of the emotions conveyed, then perhaps the difference between reading erotica and reading the erotic literary novel is in the richness of its thematic element...
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