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Summary: Really Great Introduction To BDSM
Review: I was really impressed with Carrie's Story. It is well written and made me read it really quickly, in fact it was over all too soon. Unlike a lot of erotica or related items, the focus here is on the story and the plot, they are not simply motives to string sex scenes together.
I am not into the scene enough to say how realistic this is, but it makes me yearn to attend a lecture or chat room with a real "Carrie". The story probably raises as many questions as it finally answers, and leaves a beautiful opening for a sequel (please, Molly!).
Overall, skip it if you're prudish or just don't think you could ever relate to people who choose this lifestyle. Everyone else, you'll love it!
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Summary: Really Great Introduction To BDSM
Review: I was really impressed with Carrie's Story. It is well written and made me read it really quickly, in fact it was over all too soon. Unlike a lot of erotica or related items, the focus here is on the story and the plot, they are not simply motives to string sex scenes together.
I am not into the scene enough to say how realistic this is, but it makes me yearn to attend a lecture or chat room with a real "Carrie". The story probably raises as many questions as it finally answers, and leaves a beautiful opening for a sequel (please, Molly!).
Overall, skip it if you're prudish or just don't think you could ever relate to people who choose this lifestyle. Everyone else, you'll love it!
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Summary: For a book with tons of kinky sex, it was pretty dull.
Review: Really, for a book invovling tons of bondage and kinky sex, this book was pretty bland. For all of the emotional response that the main character had to all that she was going through, she could have been describing a visit to the post office or DMV. The author never really discussed WHY this woman would willingly allow herself to be enslaved, used, and abused; so it was hard to really care about what was going on. This is the first novel I've read by this author, and the last.
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Summary: Truly excellent!
Review: This book is one of my favorite of all. Very hot and very thought provoking, Carrie's Story has a very "real-world" feel to it, much more so than The Marketplace or the Sleeping Beauty series. Like another reviewer said it is not over-romanticized, but just "like it is" storytelling. Carrie accepts that she likes being a slave, but still wonders about the "Why" and of course can't tear herself away from the oncoming "What." A must read for anyone interested in BDSM.
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Summary: Carrie's Story Delivers
Review: This is an excellent piece of erotic literature. It creates a somewhat believable character, Carrie, who has a desire to obey. But she is not a dishrag. Somewhat along the lines of O, to whom this book is a bit of an homage, Carrie has a brain. The wrestling match between that brain and the seeming mindlessness and silliness of obedience games creates a captivating dynamice.Three cheers.
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Summary: not the deepest book in the world, but a very sexy one
Review: this is the story of a young sexy beautiful women and her quest from meeting johnatan, her rich, older successful lover, to exepting life as a sexual slave, and eventualy, being sold into sexual slavery. as she goes through her journy, the story goes from her ordinery life in new york, to a fantasy pony farm and to a europien slaves training and selling center. through all those location, we get to see her being used, humaliated and showed in verious possitions, situations and people. she is very intelegent and funny and i found her voice to be belivable and identifiable mostly in the begining of the story (plus, she likes a lot of the same books and movies that i do) but i found the story to be a bit too shallow for my taste, all the people are gorgous, everyone's happy, and i couldn't feel her having real doubts and real fears, at many points in the book it just seem like a wraping plot to show as many diffrent sex situation you can put in 200 pages.
my favorite erotic novels are "the story of O", "the story of the eye" and "the marketplace" series, the reson for that was that although they show very imaginative and fictional situation, the carecters are very deep and show of conflicts and original thoughts - which makes them more belivable to me, i didn't felt like that reading "carrie's story" it was a sexy turn on romance novel with a few twisted, but i don't feel i was inriched by it.
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Summary: Educational....hell , it was amazing!
Review: Wow, a book that is written about pony girls that cant help but stimulate every slave, both male and female. Female being my interest i was glued to every page wanting to read more and more of the adventures portrayed. This is a MUST READ for anyone into S/M. Better buy her next title Safe Word cause your just going to want to read more. Can't wait for her next book.
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Summary: Cant sit still
Review: Wow, a book that is written about pony girls that cant help but stimulate every slave, both male and female. Female being my interest i was glued to every page wanting to read more and more of the adventures portrayed. This is a MUST READ for anyone into S/M. Better buy her next title Safe Word cause your just going to want to read more. Can't wait for her next book.
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Summary: Excellent Essay on Submissive Girl Story. Not quite the best
Review: `Carrie's Story' is written by Molly Weatherfield who is described on a front cover blurb as a neo-Victorian erotic romance writer. Personally, I am very happy that there is very little which is Victorian, neo or otherwise, about Ms. Weatherfield's way of telling a story. On the other hand, this novel owes a rather sizable debt to `The Story of O'. This borrowing has a generally positive effect for the reader, except for the fact that Ms. Weatherfield simply does not come up to Ms. Reage's standard in building a successfully paced story or in capturing the state of mind of the story's heroine.
To the good, Ms. Weatherfield has placed her story smack in the middle of 21st century San Francisco. This is a great relief to those who find the trek to Medieval Europe of the science fictional world of Gor a bit trying on the imagination when we search out good stories of this genre. The author lightly seasons the narrative with references to important San Francisco venues such as Chez Panisse and the Zuni Café, plus side trips to Napa Valley. Other very clever references to Shubert's `Trout Quintet' and well-known works of fiction are just enough to give a good patina of civility to the book. The high point of cultural references is the clever allusion to the Thomas Pynchon's novella, `The Crying of Lot 49'. The pun of the title fits neatly into the situation of the character in this novel.
Also to the good, Ms. Weatherfield has succeeded in picturing a very realistic long-term discipline relationship between two people. Much of this, I am sure, is attributable to the influence of `The Story of O'. It is very easy to overplay the amount of time, in the long run, that a person can erase their pre-relation life to that of the will of their master. A normal working career with an after hours relationship based on well-established rules is the name of the game. It is also much more interesting psychologically to paint a person who lives in the world but whose mind belongs to another person.
This is where some problems creep into the quality of the storytelling. The submissive lead character, Carrie, is simply not presented in such a way that we see the kind of psychic rewards which come from a full time master / submissive relationship. The narratives of various scenes give no hint of the kind of mystic bonds created by physical and mental submission. The life in Carrie's mind is little more intense than what has been described as the Stockholm syndrome, where captives attach themselves to their captors in much the same way that children attach themselves to parents because their entire well-being depends on favors from parents / captors. `Stockholm syndrome' may play some role in a master / submissive relationship, but it is certainly not the most important part of the relation between an independent agent like Carrie and her various masters.
Another weakness of the story is the level of suspension of disbelief one has to attain to believe some of the situations in the novel. Some of the venues of `The Story of O' are just slightly implausible, unless you happen to live in Las Vegas, where all of this seems possible. Ms. Weatherfield's organizations and venues are really quite implausible. If one is to be erotic and gain the advantages of staying within the realities of the modern world, you can't go about inventing Astrodome sized buildings in the middle of Paris dedicated to a plainly illegal activity.
All that being said, I found many of Ms. Weatherfield's inventions, especially her description of legal legendermains used to justify erotic slavery to be very satisfying. I am entirely willing to believe these fictions would survive a French court, but I am less certain of how they would fare in an American court outside of San Francisco. I also found her limitations on the dominance submissive relation to be an excellent service of the realities of human relations.
Overall, this is an excellent, satisfying novel, better than many, and almost as good as the best in its genre. My only real disappointment was in the weak ending. It didn't even end in a whimper. It seemed to be entirely written to facilitate a sequel. But then, a sequel matching the quality of this book will be very welcome indeed.
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