The She Devils

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Summary: Foul junk with no redeeming features
Review: Don't be misled by the gurglings of Susan Sontag and other laudatory customer reviews! This is sewage-swill from the illiterate ravings of a brain-rotted degenerate. I agree with the recent testimony of a witness at England's Liberal Democrat Party Congress Conference on Pornography that porno is not inherently degrading or harmful; its main trouble is that it's so poorly expressed and produced. Exactly! And this is a prime example. (Incidentally, I can't help sharing with you two funny aspects of this testimony. First: this champion of elegance in pornography owns a sex shop in London and her REAL name is Ms. Gash! The second: after this testimony, a columnist in a London newspaper expressed his incredulity that all that's wrong with pornography is that we don't yet have a filmed version of NURSES BEND OVER, produced by Merchant Ivory! (who directed REMAINS OF THE DAY, MAURICE, ROOM WITH A VIEW, HOWARD'S END)! That's a hilarious comment, but I still agree with Ms. Gash (can that really be her name?) that a bunch of four letter words in a sea of filth is nothing more than that. The SHE DEVILS is a prime example of crude excess to no purpose. Stay clear! Ugh!

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Summary: An excellent little piece of erotica
Review: Short but very sweet, The She-Devils is a deliciously evil little book. About a man renting a room across the hall from a woman and her daughters, who slowly (and easily?) seduce him and each other. First he encounters each of them on thier own, before finally succumbing to their whim in one big orgy of delight. The author has created some interesting characters, the youngest daughter in particular! Role models these girls ain't. After finishing the book, like the Master himself De Sade achieves, your left wondering wether all of the story was truly "fiction"

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Summary: Quite raunchy, characters less than believable
Review: The fact that this story is set in an unfamiliar (to the contemporary reader) time and place - turn-of-the-19th-century France - keeps it from sounding like a typical (bad) Forum piece. All of the women (mostly girls, actually) are hopelessly debauched from the moment the narrator meets them and then pretty much stay that way.
The action - there's a lot of it - is arousing enough for the task at hand (so to speak), but the characters are so flat that actually reading this book is a bit of a slog.