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    <body><![CDATA[Oh boy. What to say about this book. I love a good smut novel, and not just those PG-13 Danielle Steel novels either. I totally dig trashy, nasty, dirty romance novels, especially the ones that use ridiculous words like tumescent, which is what I expected this book to be--with a fairy tale context. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31677774">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I was all for reading a little naughty fairy-tale erotica from an author I liked - but wow.  The whole sub/dom theme (the title really should be &quot;The Spanking Of Sleeping Beauty&quot;) was funny at first, then ridiculous, and eventually just tedious.  Meh.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Warning - ADULT CONTENT<br/><br/>This book was really my introduction into Erotica and is definitely an eye opener.  I agree with one of the other reviewers in that this is so well written by Anne Rice (Pen Name A. N. Roquelaure) that you may be ruined for other Erotica - I was.<br/><br/>This bo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22984592">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Read this when I was sixteen. At that point, it all seemed sooo naughty and titillating. I found this the other day when I was sorting the bookshelf and leafed through it. What an innocent little thing I was to find this even remotely shocking. It is essentially an entire world created around all th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27404382">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I got this in a boxed set one Christmas from my GRANDMOTHER. She knew I collected fairy tales and their adaptations. I'm fairly certain she had no idea the books were erotic. I think she just saw &quot;Sleeping Beauty&quot; and assumed I'd want it.  She wanted to borrow it from me when I was done. I...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10880093">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I started reading one of Rice's <em>Sleeping Beauty</em> books while I was in high school and quickly realized that I was in over my head.  I've tried again as an adult and all I can say is that these books should come with a warning lable telling people not to try any of the dangerous SM stuff included betw...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2210350">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I can’t help comment/review this book from the perspective of someone who has read it before and has recently read it again. <br/>As a whole I like to think of the trilogy like a flower. The first novel is the bud and then by the time you get to the end of the third novel it’s in full bloom.<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8171785">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[It's been a long time that I'd read this book that I forgot the year when I read it. But I do know that I've read all three books of this series at the same year. <br/><br/>I was curious as to why the title was related to Sleeping Beauty. Knowing Anne Rice works, I was expecting a different kind o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5589972">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[this book (and all of the series - yes i &quot;read&quot; them all) was just stupid.  the only redeeming thing i can say about it is that my mother, knowing how much i enjoy fairy tales, bought this trilogy for me, not realizing it was just non-stop, over-the-top S&amp;M sex and stuff.  <br/><br/>i am...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2484626">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I am not sure how I feel about this book.  On PAGE 3 the sex and degradation begins and it continued-page after brutal page.  I am not a prude by any stretch, I just think this is not the book or subject matter for me.  The sub/dom theme is just a little much for me as it is presented in this book--...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77273607">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[as of 2 weeks ago i finished this book and moved on to the second novel: Beauty's Punishment. sooo naughty but written with a woman's voice and perspective. i kind of wish i could get a sense of a real dominating and submissive male voice- however, it still turned me on bigtime!<br/><br/>yay! i at...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/159868">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I had a friend who turned me on to Anne Rice when I was a teenager and I loooooved the vampire books. Then I started these  - WHOA. Blew my eyes wide open. Naughty naughty naughty. <br/><br/>So recently I came across them while digging through my basement and thought it would be fun to see what a ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47423167">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[YIKES! Who wants a spanking? (or several hundred, until your ass is welted and raw!?!?) Who'd like to be forced into sexual relations with people whom you don't know, but oddly, are all VERY sexy and have raw asses too?  OOH! Don't pick me! (insert sound of whip cracking) I guess I lack the sadist t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7769828">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[<br/><br/><strong>From the cover:</strong><br/><br/>Rice writing as A. N. Roquelaure. <br/><br/>In the traditional folk tale &quot;Sleeping Beauty,&quot; the spell cast upon the lovely young princess and everyone in her castle can only be broken by the kiss of a Prince. Anne Rice's retelling of the Beauty stor...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/82180609">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[You can never un-read this book. As a youth (age 20) I attempted to read it at a lover's prompting. It's the only book I have ever thrown across the room...several times. The strong female in me chafed against the seemingly barbaric dominance of the prince and the high court. Even more disturbing wa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21704530">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Ok, so, there was a time that I wanted to read Anne Rice. I liked &quot;Interview&quot; (the movie) enough to give the book a go. Luckily, I picked up this book first... <br/><br/>There's some anal sex in here. There is not just like some anal sex, no, there is ANAL SEX!!!!! It's happening, all th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9729664">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I sort of enjoyed this book.  The whole thing seemed a little gimmicky.  I have never found Anne Rice to be a particularly good writer.  Her prose is stilted (and yes, here it is acceptable to a certain extent, as she is mimicking the fairy tale form).  It came off as a little bit flat.  There are a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12682390">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[What I liked about the book was the idea of an erotic twist to a fairy tale. But what unfolded was a story of random public humiliation, bondage, and torture.<br/>What I didn't like was the way the story fizzled less than half-way through the book, there was so much potential for this to be a great...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48901983">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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