A review by seamus_j
The 120 Days of Sodom by Marquis de Sade

Extraordinarily compelling. . . the Marquis de Sade was truly a seductive writer, as evidenced by the number of mixed reviews already given to this book. So how do you rate a book that is one of the all-time masterpieces of dark literature and also the sickest, most revolting, unclean novel you will likely ever encounter? I did not finish the entire work, nor do I ever intend to. It becomes progressively worse and I have little desire to find out what transpires in the last 2/5 of this horror.

By the way, to those who wonder, yes, sadly, some of the events related (though by no means all) are based on true events in the life of de Sade.