I never had any intention of reading Story of O until I was recently asked to review it. I knew I wouldn't like it, that it is not the kind of erotica I usually waste my Sunday afternoons with, so rather than purchasing the whole thing, I instead decided to read the Amazon Kindle sample. That, I'm a...
Cross-posted on Readerling"Who I am finally, if not the long silent part of someone, the secret and nocturnal part which has never betrayed itself in public by any thought, word, or deed, but communicates through subterranean depths of the imaginary with dreams as old as the world itself?"-Dominique...
This story was written in 1954... I cannot even begin to imagine the outrage this novel must have caused. Taken at face value it’s a strange, odd, and confusing tale of female submission. The main character, known as O, is brought to the château of Roissy where she is taught to be constantly ‘availa...
Oh dear, what to say about this. One of those books I probably wont be telling my mum I've read! I am afraid I don't understand this as a manifestation of love, or how someone can view what amounts to complete abasement as enobling. I thought it odd that when I reserved it at the library that both t...
I read this quite a while ago, and thought I had already rated it.Anyway, what I still cannot fathom is why a woman would write fiction that so thoroughly dehumanizes women. Even the Marquis doesn't come close,and one could excuse it more from a man. One can only feel sorry for poor Desclos.On the ...
I really liked this book. I think it should definitely be labeled as a classic, though I think too many people are hung up on the sex and BDSM aspect to really consider it. I think we should open up more about sex. It is not a bad thing to take pleasure in sex or pain.
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