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horfhorfhorf's review against another edition
4.0
Wholly depressing. I never want to see reference to 'Deepthroat' in a positive light ever again.
tashcsx's review against another edition
2.0
It's not a book I can give five stars. Don't get me wrong, it is a good book but I can't give something a good rating when it's about a woman being raped and beaten and it's a true story. I really enjoyed it but it has made me extremely disappointed in how untrue the movie is.
mellabella's review against another edition
3.0
This book made me very sad. If everything Linda Boreman wrote is true, she lived through hell. Used, and abused. The fact that she was forced to, and didn't even want to be the lead in one of the most famous porn movies ever... Sick. It didn't even leave me feeling hopeful. She lived in poverty after the infamy died down. She died in 2002 at only 53. She also denounced pornographic movies. Sad life, sad ending.
makcar03's review against another edition
3.0
It's so hard to accurately rate this book. The contents are awful, devastating honestly. Linda "Lovelace" had an inhuman experience at the hands of Chuck (her husband and "manager"). This book is graphic, more than anything I was expecting. She details the horror that she went through without mincing words, describing horrible acts and abuse in detail. It is horrendous, but suspenseful and compelling. I think she went very graphic because that was what had sold her previous books where everything was framed as Lindas sexual freedom - but the cruelty and abuse was hard to get through.
The writing and editing is not good, to be frank. There are tons of spelling and grammatical errors throughout the book. The writing is often lacking, especially near the beginning during the establishment of Linda and the life she was living.
The accuracy of the events within the book have also been called in to question. People in Linda's working life have claimed she is making up a lot of stuff to push blame off of herself and that she reframed certain things so that she wouldn't come across as negative in any way. I think there's probably some truth to that, knowing that Linda became a born again Christian and a huge advocate against pornography in the 80s/90s is important to note. But I don't doubt that much of her story is true, and I think the people within the darker aspects of that industry have reason to lie and make it seem that she made a lot of the horrendous aspects up.
The writing and editing is not good, to be frank. There are tons of spelling and grammatical errors throughout the book. The writing is often lacking, especially near the beginning during the establishment of Linda and the life she was living.
The accuracy of the events within the book have also been called in to question. People in Linda's working life have claimed she is making up a lot of stuff to push blame off of herself and that she reframed certain things so that she wouldn't come across as negative in any way. I think there's probably some truth to that, knowing that Linda became a born again Christian and a huge advocate against pornography in the 80s/90s is important to note. But I don't doubt that much of her story is true, and I think the people within the darker aspects of that industry have reason to lie and make it seem that she made a lot of the horrendous aspects up.
aced_aro_rose's review against another edition
4.0
A very difficult autobiography to read. But I felt I needed to read it after watching the film ‘Lovelace’.
I had a hard time reading a lot of the abuse against Linda. It’s just so horrifying. But also I could feel her pain in her words. I feel like she had to keep explaining WHY she stayed. A symptom of the public not believing her. Which is a terrible thought; people not believing the victim, but an all too familiar STILL in society.
I am glad that I read it. I’d rather read something that makes me uncomfortable then shut my eyes and ears to someone else’s pain.
I had a hard time reading a lot of the abuse against Linda. It’s just so horrifying. But also I could feel her pain in her words. I feel like she had to keep explaining WHY she stayed. A symptom of the public not believing her. Which is a terrible thought; people not believing the victim, but an all too familiar STILL in society.
I am glad that I read it. I’d rather read something that makes me uncomfortable then shut my eyes and ears to someone else’s pain.
ari__s's review against another edition
3.0
I decided to read this book because I had read Getting Off, which was an anti-porn text that referenced the story of Linda Lovelace as one of the reasons to be against porn. Based solely on reading Ordeal, I'd have to agree. Porn seems bad told through the eyes of someone who was so horrifically brutalized by the industry. Though, taking away the tunnel vision and seeing some of the other arguments toward porn, prostitution, etc., I can't say that I'm anti porn. This, however, is not a discussion on what I'm for or against. This autobiography spares no details, and in that sense it's a horrifying reminder of what some people are capable of doing to other people. Was it the best written book? Probably not. But did it need to be? Definitely not. The details are vivid enough and didn't need any kind of flowing poetry to get the point across.