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    <body><![CDATA[Sick, disgusting and kinky but never boring. It certainly makes an impression. But if it were to be any longer I would start chucking off the stars. Lucky for Mr. Bataille that he kept the story short and writing up to standards. I'm sure if you try hard you could find some social commentary in ther...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60674546">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[ This book is obscene and fantastic.  It's a very short read, and if you can divorce the pornographic content from the subject matter- you'll end up in a world of symbolism and psychological return from the likes of William Golding.  If you're the kind of person who likes to take a book apart and an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21314124">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Every once in a while I have to read something dirty, lusty and depraved--I don't know what it is about me, but it's necessary.  And I don't really mind.  And I don't feel dirty afterwards, but rather refreshed actually.  So there.<br/><br/>George Bataille, besides beind the lliterary executor to ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7003561">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was unabashedly, humiliatingly retarded. It's the kind of book that's so famous and then you read it and wonder if someone is pulling a practical joke on you.<br/><br/>I've read better fanfic porn.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Many have claimed that this is the most atrocious perverse thing they've ever experienced or conversely the most illuminating, mind-expanding thing they've every experienced, so of course I had to check it out. I found it to be neither. Indeed, the book was pretty fucking weird and perverse. And tha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1293428">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Karen hates this book. That is a lie, but she doesn't like it so much. <br/><br/>apparently all the things that people do are insipid, which is exactly why Bataille feels no need for anyone to have sex for much of this book. On the other hand, they do lots of other crap that is far creepier. Which...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45903834">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book can be read in about 30 minutes.  Sadly, I imagine it must have taken slightly longer to write.  The same things happen over and over, which youâ€™d imagine wouldnâ€™t be such a bother since the previous book I read was â€˜Replayâ€™ by Ken Grimwood, except in Story of the Eye the scenes ar...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17396783">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="10745625">
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;In pornographic novels, action has to be limited to the copulation of clichÃ©s. Style, structure, imagery should never distract the reader from his tepid lust. The novel must consist of an alternation of sexual scenes. The passages in between must be reduced to sutures of sense, logical bridge...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10745625">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a book that I sat down and read in one sitting, I was so engrossed.  That being said, this book is not for the squeamish, and if you're looking for steamy erotic scenes, again, not for you.  However, if you're interested in the study of psychosexuality and Freudian psychoanalysis, then I wou...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10685526">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read those first few pages standing in the doorway of City Lights bookshop when I was nineteen before heading across to Specs for a whiskey.  The memory of the milk and the cupboard has never left me.  R and I used to read it to each other in drunken revelry walking down Columbus Avenue, delirious...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5614620">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is sort of like the Showgirls of literature: it's so terrible in almost every way, and so poorly written that you simply can't look away.<br/><br/>And don't get me wrong, I don't mean terrbile as &quot;offensive&quot; or &quot;obscene.&quot;  I've read worse.  This book is just plain bad...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6222057">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[George Bataille's brief Sade-esque novella is a mordantly brilliant dip into the post-Nietzschen world modernity. The Story of the Eye is a pornographic disintegration of the Western ethical code. It is both magnificent and foul; a more daring and original work than his later philosophy/anthropology...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34677911">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Lurid.  Disgusting.  There was a time when I was in my early teens when I wanted to read anything shocking or controversial.  I immersed myself in the work of Robert Crumb, William Burroughs, and the Marquis de Sade, as well as Miller's Sin City, and Nabokov's Lolita.  Story of the Eye is violent po...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6167665">more...</a>]]></body>
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