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Summary: Southern and Hoffenberg make sex sound boring
Review: Not funny enough to succeed as satire, and certainly not erotic. When I read the blurb annoucement that this was a satire on Voltaire's CANDIDE, my first reaction was, "How do you write a satire of a satire?" The answer is, you can't; and CANDY ends up as just another tired, outdated...book. Don't judge Southern by this novel....
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Summary: Southern and Hoffenberg make sex sound boring
Review: Not funny enough to succeed as satire, and certainly not erotic. When I read the blurb annoucement that this was a satire on Voltaire's CANDIDE, my first reaction was, "How do you write a satire of a satire?" The answer is, you can't; and CANDY ends up as just another tired, outdated...book. Don't judge Southern by this novel....
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Summary: It's disgusting, perverted....I loved it!
Review: Oh my gosh...never in my life have I read such a perversion of the English language. It made me sick to my stomach, and at the same time made me laugh aloud. Candy is a true gem of literature, I recomend it to anyone with a strong stomach!
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Summary: candy
Review: Perhaps it was because I have yet to read Voltaire's Candide, but Southern's Candy was completely lost on me. There was enough perversity and bizarreness to keep me reading until the end but I was left feeling that it was a bit incomplete and a bit pointless. Nevertheless, I get the feeling that Southern is a talented writer, and perhaps this just wasn't one of his better works.
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Summary: candy
Review: Perhaps it was because I have yet to read Voltaire's Candide, but Southern's Candy was completely lost on me. There was enough perversity and bizarreness to keep me reading until the end but I was left feeling that it was a bit incomplete and a bit pointless. Nevertheless, I get the feeling that Southern is a talented writer, and perhaps this just wasn't one of his better works.
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Summary: "Give me your hump!"
Review: Southern's tour-de-force follows the innocent, beautiful
Candy Christian as she runs sexually afoul of a whole bunch
of scheming, horny men. Since she is pure and giving, she
wants to please them, but gee whiz! Are they ever strange!
"Candy" was banned in the United States in the Fifties and
received its first publication in Paris. Southern and Mason Hoffenburg, an American poet, admitted that they had written
the book primarily to make money, since churn-'em-up pornography was what Olympia Press chef Maurice Girodias was
paying for. Of course, the book became so much more than a
cutesy best-seller: it was the satire of the century, throwing
wide-eyed, white-skinned Miss America into a den of the great bugaboos of the time (including a Jewish doctor, a hunchback, and Daddy!). Read it till its thunderous and
pulsating conclusion.
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Summary: "Give me your hump!"
Review: Southern's tour-de-force follows the innocent, beautifulCandy Christian as she runs sexually afoul of a whole bunchof scheming, horny men. Since she is pure and giving, she wants to please them, but gee whiz! Are they ever strange! "Candy" was banned in the United States in the Fifties and received its first publication in Paris. Southern and Mason Hoffenburg, an American poet, admitted that they had written the book primarily to make money, since churn-'em-up pornography was what Olympia Press chef Maurice Girodias was paying for. Of course, the book became so much more than a cutesy best-seller: it was the satire of the century, throwing wide-eyed, white-skinned Miss America into a den of the great bugaboos of the time (including a Jewish doctor, a hunchback, and Daddy!). Read it till its thunderous and pulsating conclusion.
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Summary: Candy: The girl-Quixote of sexual innocence
Review: This book is a masterpiece of contemporary society observation and criticism via a modern lovely and supersexy pin-up girl's adventures in starting to face the facts of life, specially the sexual ones. A jade jewel of a book.
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Summary: "Give Me Your Warmth!!"
Review: This book was the most detailed, and yet explicit book I've ever read in my life! I enjoyed reading it, and couldn't put it down. Candy is this beautiful young teengage girl who attracts men everywhere, even her own relatives! In a way Candy was sort of "clueless", but overall, I still enjoyed the story.
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Summary: Clever and disarming satire!
Review: This is one of the cleverest satires I have read in a long time. In this wickedly funny and provocative novel, Candy chronicles her pursuit of normalcy when she abandons her eccentric family. What follows is a hilarious twist after another as Candy encounters doctors, sexual analysts, yoga gurus and relatives. The sexual implications and content in this novel (too explicit to describe) are thought provoking, funny and disturbing at the same time. It is no surprise that Candy was banned from various countries. Terry Southern writes with irony and unsentimental prose -- a force to be reckoned with. Are you in the bargain for a satirical and dark read? Pick up Candy!
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