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A review by ashleyg101
The 120 Days of Sodom by Marquis de Sade
Did not finish book.
"If the book we reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skull, why then do we read it? So that it shall make us happy? Good God, we would also be happy if we had no books, and such books as make us happy we could, if need be, write ourselves. But what we must have are those books which come upon us like ill-fortune, and distress us deeply, like the death of one we love better than ourselves, like suicide. A book must be an ice-axe to break the sea froze inside us." - Franz Kafka
"Sad drained to the dregs the moment of selfishness, injustice, misery, and he insisted upon its truth. The supreme value of his testimony lies in his ability to disturb us. It forces us to re-exame thoroughly the basic problem which haunts our age in different forms: the true relation between man and man." - Simone de Beauvoir
DISTURBING TOPICS AHEAD:
Well Kafka and de Beauvoir can fuck off into the sun with these quotes, because I will not finish this bullshit. This is gross. This is depraved, this involves incest (like dudes will sire daughters, start sexually and physically abusing them as children, and then marry them off to their friends, knowing they will be sexually and physically abused, and they don't care).
This is a story about 4 nasty old dudes who are bored with their regular torture and murders, so they decide to have people kidnap a bunch of kids, ages 12-15, and recruit some adults as well (men, based on the size of their junk), pick the best looking, and hold them hostage in a castle while they abuse them at their leisure.
I don't want to read about violence and depravity inflicted onto a kidnapped child. It's just not something I need in my life.
To top it off, you get to read stories told by prostitutes about their sexual experiences, some starting at age 7.
There is literally NO hint of empathy, sympathy, or compassion in this book. These men are bored, they have money, and they do what they want. They have absolutely no feelings. This is a book about what a person can do when he has absolutely no limits, and that's something I don't need in my life. This goes beyond feeling "uncomfortable," - I want to scream and cry and throw up, and I didn't even get past 100 pages. I kept thinking they would show some feelings, some kind of compassion towards these children, but instead, they refuse to let them use the bathroom or clean themselves.
Honestly, I may read a summary of the book just to find out if the sex slaves rise against them in the end and fucking burn down the castle with the men in it (fingers crossed!).
FUCK THIS BOOK.
"Sad drained to the dregs the moment of selfishness, injustice, misery, and he insisted upon its truth. The supreme value of his testimony lies in his ability to disturb us. It forces us to re-exame thoroughly the basic problem which haunts our age in different forms: the true relation between man and man." - Simone de Beauvoir
DISTURBING TOPICS AHEAD:
Well Kafka and de Beauvoir can fuck off into the sun with these quotes, because I will not finish this bullshit. This is gross. This is depraved, this involves incest (like dudes will sire daughters, start sexually and physically abusing them as children, and then marry them off to their friends, knowing they will be sexually and physically abused, and they don't care).
This is a story about 4 nasty old dudes who are bored with their regular torture and murders, so they decide to have people kidnap a bunch of kids, ages 12-15, and recruit some adults as well (men, based on the size of their junk), pick the best looking, and hold them hostage in a castle while they abuse them at their leisure.
I don't want to read about violence and depravity inflicted onto a kidnapped child. It's just not something I need in my life.
To top it off, you get to read stories told by prostitutes about their sexual experiences, some starting at age 7.
There is literally NO hint of empathy, sympathy, or compassion in this book. These men are bored, they have money, and they do what they want. They have absolutely no feelings. This is a book about what a person can do when he has absolutely no limits, and that's something I don't need in my life. This goes beyond feeling "uncomfortable," - I want to scream and cry and throw up, and I didn't even get past 100 pages. I kept thinking they would show some feelings, some kind of compassion towards these children, but instead, they refuse to let them use the bathroom or clean themselves.
Honestly, I may read a summary of the book just to find out if the sex slaves rise against them in the end and fucking burn down the castle with the men in it (fingers crossed!).
FUCK THIS BOOK.