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clarereadstheworld's review
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Well this book was so far from what I was expecting! The blurb describes this novel as "telling the story of one woman's journey toward fulfillment". I find this inaccurate and misleading. It should have said "one woman's journey to have sex with anything that has a heart beat as often as possible". This is definitely not a book for anyone who is uncomfortable reading sex scenes, because, well, the whole book is basically just about sex and not much else.
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I had very mixed feelings while reading it. I found it quite problematic to be reading a book written by a male author about female sexual desire and pleasure. Some parts felt very passive aggressive towards womankind, especially the sections when the writer describes how she and her friends seduced men, and made them think that were still inexperienced virgins, or that this was the first blow job they had given. These parts were very uncomfortable portrayals of some pretty outdated toxic gendered sexual roles.
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I also found the woman telling her story to have a fairly unbelievable sexual awareness far too young. Then there's all the incest, bestiality, and other shocking sexual acts which I really struggled to get on board with - and my general life philosophy is "as long as it's done with consenting, and fully aware adults - do whatever makes you happy".
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It turns out that Ribeiro wrote this novel as part of a collection of stories on the seven deadly sins, his novel being obviously about lust. When I learnt this is was a bit of an "Oh" moment, that's why this book is so ridiculously full of sex, sex, sex and nothing but sex. I guess it kinda made more sense, and if you read it more as a caricature than a serious novel, it reads a bit better.
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It's still a challenging read, and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone who isn't very comfortable reading about sex.
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Well this book was so far from what I was expecting! The blurb describes this novel as "telling the story of one woman's journey toward fulfillment". I find this inaccurate and misleading. It should have said "one woman's journey to have sex with anything that has a heart beat as often as possible". This is definitely not a book for anyone who is uncomfortable reading sex scenes, because, well, the whole book is basically just about sex and not much else.
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I had very mixed feelings while reading it. I found it quite problematic to be reading a book written by a male author about female sexual desire and pleasure. Some parts felt very passive aggressive towards womankind, especially the sections when the writer describes how she and her friends seduced men, and made them think that were still inexperienced virgins, or that this was the first blow job they had given. These parts were very uncomfortable portrayals of some pretty outdated toxic gendered sexual roles.
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I also found the woman telling her story to have a fairly unbelievable sexual awareness far too young. Then there's all the incest, bestiality, and other shocking sexual acts which I really struggled to get on board with - and my general life philosophy is "as long as it's done with consenting, and fully aware adults - do whatever makes you happy".
.
It turns out that Ribeiro wrote this novel as part of a collection of stories on the seven deadly sins, his novel being obviously about lust. When I learnt this is was a bit of an "Oh" moment, that's why this book is so ridiculously full of sex, sex, sex and nothing but sex. I guess it kinda made more sense, and if you read it more as a caricature than a serious novel, it reads a bit better.
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It's still a challenging read, and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone who isn't very comfortable reading about sex.
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