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3.44 AVERAGE
3.44 AVERAGE
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
this was a porno. 50 shades could never. not bad
This was an awesome compilation of erotica but maybe something I shouldn't have read primarily at work! Great read though!
It shouldn't take me more than a year to get halfway through a book.
I kept wanting to be able to finish this one, but I just can't keep reading it. It can only hold my attention for three or four pages at a time, and then I have to force myself to go back to it. That's not how reading should go, so I'm adding this one to giving up.
I got to page 140.
I kept wanting to be able to finish this one, but I just can't keep reading it. It can only hold my attention for three or four pages at a time, and then I have to force myself to go back to it. That's not how reading should go, so I'm adding this one to giving up.
I got to page 140.
Knowing that Nin wrote these stories for a single male patron, I read this with that intention in the forefront of my mind: this is written for someone else, a man. But I do wonder what she would have written had she written these for herself. I wonder what poetry she would have woven into them.
This collection is not for the faint of heart. With careful vocabulary and many details, she paints a picture of lazily lusty men in smoky opium dens and an uncomfortably voyeuristic picnic with a dog. Nin doubles down on taboo and does not flinch at the truth.
My only issue was the abrupt endings, as if she'd grown tired of writing and had to cap the tale off.
This is a graphic collection of sex in every way, in every position, using every body part and every available body, humans included.
This collection is not for the faint of heart. With careful vocabulary and many details, she paints a picture of lazily lusty men in smoky opium dens and an uncomfortably voyeuristic picnic with a dog. Nin doubles down on taboo and does not flinch at the truth.
My only issue was the abrupt endings, as if she'd grown tired of writing and had to cap the tale off.
This is a graphic collection of sex in every way, in every position, using every body part and every available body, humans included.
Ok, no. This book revealed what limits to the erotic imagination I would very much prefer to maintain, thank you. I regret picking up Anaïs Nin in this form. Right on it's a very fiery, escalating read. I almost wanted, even waited to be thrilled. However, too much violence in the content had me very disturbed and triggered. It is not okay to make a fantasy of slitting somebody's vagina, for example.
I would never recommend this especially not to folks who have had experiences of sexual assault.
I would never recommend this especially not to folks who have had experiences of sexual assault.
My full review of Delta Of Venus first appeared on Keeping Up With The Penguins.
By today's standards, all of these stories are problematic in some measure. TW: don't pick this one up if you have any sensitivities around sex, gender, and/or sexualised violence. Still, I didn’t hate it..? I was surprised, at times I blushed, but I wasn’t as sickened as perhaps I should have been – I was certainly never bored. The quality of Nin’s prose, her mastery of language and insight into desire, don’t excuse the challenging content but they make it very readable.
By today's standards, all of these stories are problematic in some measure. TW: don't pick this one up if you have any sensitivities around sex, gender, and/or sexualised violence. Still, I didn’t hate it..? I was surprised, at times I blushed, but I wasn’t as sickened as perhaps I should have been – I was certainly never bored. The quality of Nin’s prose, her mastery of language and insight into desire, don’t excuse the challenging content but they make it very readable.
emotional
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
I don’t know whether it says much about the author or the state of writing but this smut book has been one of the best modern things i’ve read— lots of interesting stories, things that happen and the such. Weird problems you’d never think anyone would have revealed. Apparently this book was made as a reaction to men writing all the smut— a woman’s take. Well. If this is what women get off to— get off more please.