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2.95 AVERAGE
2.95 AVERAGE
One of the dirtiest books I've read 😂
Quick read but pretty inaccessible use of language- far too many words to make one simple point!
Quick read but pretty inaccessible use of language- far too many words to make one simple point!
adventurous
emotional
sad
medium-paced
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content
*Popsugar 2015 Reading Challenge*
**A Banned Book**
When reading Fanny Hill I had no trouble understanding why it had once been banned. The story and plot were a quite thin, but my oh my was it steamy!
**A Banned Book**
When reading Fanny Hill I had no trouble understanding why it had once been banned. The story and plot were a quite thin, but my oh my was it steamy!
Pure ye olde worde porne.
Also, I disapprove of Cleland's
a) romanticising rape
b) demonising homosexuality
Quite an engaging narrator, but Moll Flanders is a much better example of how this sort of thing should be done...
Also, I disapprove of Cleland's
a) romanticising rape
b) demonising homosexuality
Quite an engaging narrator, but Moll Flanders is a much better example of how this sort of thing should be done...
Really just readable for the historic value. The descriptions of sex scenes and body parts get repetitive quite quickly and I only realised on the last 10 pages that there actually IS a story line beside the porn.
I mean I knew this was explicitly sexual, but I didn't know it was /that/ expliclitly sexual... almost exclusively. Nonetheless, it is an interesting read to keep in mind in terms of 18th cent portrayals of sexual desire.
I found this one a bit hard to get through, mostly because Fanny did get on my nerves a bit. She couldn’t stop saying how her ignorance to the ways of the world led her to just go along with anything and everyone.
hopeful
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
A racy novel about a woman's life experiences and pleasures in the 18th century. The story behind the novel is quite interesting, in that the book has been banned and the author not only went to jail for writing it but disassociated himself from the book as well.