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Summary: Woderful
Review: This is truly one of the best in erotic literature if not THE best. She casts a spell over the reader and creates a world in which the most erotic and forbidden is plausible.
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Summary: One of the most erotic and intelligent books of all times
Review: Like her diary, this is a book of unserpased passion and a acute sexual and sentual curiosity, that seems to be unquenchable. I recomend it to any who love Nin's works, or to those who enjoy life, love and lust
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Summary: Erotica at its best - take it to your private island!
Review: If I had one book to take with me to an island paradise/exile, it would be this one. It's characters have real desires, qualms, fantasies and histories. It will excite you, remind you of past amours, and fill you with dreams and fantasies ofyour own. Most of all, if stuck on a tropical paradise all alone, it will make your exile more of a paradise than you would otherwise be able to hope for. No need to wait for rescue before fulfillment..
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Summary: Sensuality Poetic and Erotic
Review: When I first read "Delta of Venus", I was but a 20-something, as yet uneducated in the ways of love and the world. But I wasn't too young to feel the effect of Nin's dreamy prose, the heightened tease of her language, the titillation of the poetic images of lovers of every variety and combination, all experiencing the joys of the flesh. I never knew descriptions of heretofore "clinical" bodyparts could seem so ... beautiful.Now that I'm older, and can more fully appreciate the various twists and turns of sexuality and desire, Nin's stories are even more arousing, if for no other reason than the fact that I myself am more experienced in these matters. All combinations of love - man/woman, woman/woman, three women together, and more - are exposed here and brought to life with a passionate detachment, if such a thing is possible. There is no guilt within these pages; a reader must be willing to bathe, suspended, in the heated waters of love, taking what comes and accepting it on its own terms without judgment. Yes, it's graphic. I disagree with the idea that "pornography" cannot be an art. I prefer to think of good erotic literature as just that: an art form often attempted but rarely achieved in the purest sense of the word. "Penthouse Forum" is porn - "Delta of Venus" (as well as "Little Birds" and "Spy In The House of Love") is the best example of literary erotica, the combinations of love and the mystery of orgasm and sensuality.
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Summary: Passion, Poetry,
Review: Overwhelming, this work incited literary jealousy in me. I had long avoided her works based on the snobbish assumption that her's was mere lustful, romantic slough. Assumptions are the root of ignorance. She is the poet of flesh.
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Summary: Erotica here has a real Talent
Review: Delta of Venus is a shameless piece of erotica, not to say pornography. The characters are driven by their carnal appeites the way crack users seek a fix. There's little likeable about any of them in this strange circus of personalities.
But.... but.... it's really well written! Anais Nin is a talented writer and brings all her talent into this book -- which is dreamlike and surreal, a completely courageous examination of lust in technicolor. There's no real love in the book. No romance except in the adventure-sense of the word. Delta of Venus is a book that celebrates the exietcne of lust in all its variety and it's tough not to respect it for that. Some of it is disturbing, like The Hungarian Adventurer with its depiction of an addiction gone hopelessly out of control. When I finished the book I felt like I had passed through a circus of sexuality.
Its a captivating read but nothing for puritans.
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Summary: Pasion, Poetry, Period, and Iconography
Review: This collection of erotic short stories by Anais Nin, along with her other collection "Little Birds", is something I remember as one of the most sexually interesting and erotic books I've ever read. Nin likes to break taboos in her erotica, which will shock and disquiet a few readers, yet she does it with an originality and sensuality that makes you curious to read on. David Rehak
author of "A Young Girl's Crimes"
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Summary: Literary Reverie
Review: "Delta of Venus" is an absolute pleasure to read. Each short story here flows seamlessly into the next, making it read like a never-ending hallucination. Anais simultaneously shocked and aroused me with her stories. Her writing is startlingly beautiful, like that of an (eroticised) angel. While her style is conspicuously feminine, Anais Nin doesn't shy away from more hardcore territory, as she confidently explores the taboos of sex: incest, bisexuality, paedophilia (The Boarding School), bestiality and even genital mutilation. Anais's decadent world is rich with exotic imagery and opulence. This is no "Mills and Boon" - this is a literary delight I'd recommend to anyone seeking an all-out retreat from reality. The sheer majesty of Anais's talent for writing is just as seductive as the erotic content within the book.
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Summary: Yummy
Review: I loved reading this! I felt like I was reading something I shouldn't be. I also hesitated taking it in public to read for fear people would think I'm a pervert, but you know what? I think the average Joe has no idea who Anais Nin is. And, if someone DID know, they would probably want to sit and discuss the book with me. I did have a good time and realized that we all are basically the same. Same wants, desires, needs and hopes.
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