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The Sexual Life of Catherine M.

by Catherine Millet, Adriana Hunter (Translator)

2.68 of 5 stars 2.68 · rating details · 1,205 ratings · 185 reviews

A national best-seller that was featured on such lists as The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, The Boston Globe, and Publishers Weekly, The Sexual Life of Catherine M. was the controversial sleeper hit of the year. Since her youth, Catherine Millet, the eminent editor of Art Press, has led an extraordinarily active an...more

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Published April 14th 2003 by Grove Press (first published 2000)

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Nov 20, 2010 notgettingenough added it

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Day 24 I’ve been trying to work out how to describe my latest knitwear creation. Just imagine you were getting too much. Honestly, way too much. You can’t wake up in the morning or walk down the street for lunch without somebody wanting it. So you put on this jumper and I’m buggered if I understand what happens next. Something to do with quantum physics, at any rate. You ar...more

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Apr 23, 2012 Paul rated it 1 of 5 stars

Shelves: misc, whats-all-the-fuss-about

I nearly want to reread this to see how she pulls off the remarkable feat of writing about having limitless unbridled ravenous multiorgasmic sex and making it duller than the weekly shop in Sainsburys and less erotic than funny shaped vegetables. "Oh look, dear - there's a two for one offer on lesbians this week." "Hmmm... we just don't have enough room in the fridge. And they look a bit wrinkly to me."

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Jul 26, 2007 Angel Preble rated it 1 of 5 stars Recommends it for: nobody

Shelves: finished

I was really looking forward to reading this, albeit in a "trashy-Nora Roberts" kind of way. If anything, I was hoping it might be some triumph for women's lib, that Catherine Millet was able to own her sexuality and not be afraid of "having sex like a man". However, she somehow takes a subject that should be interesting and juicy and makes it dull and lifeless.

This was easily the most boring thing I have read. a coveted spot formerly reserved for Jonathan Livingston Seagull. Those promoting ab...more

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Oct 24, 2010 Adrienne rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: foreign-language

There have been lots of great reviews for this book so go read some of the 4 and 5 star ones.....most of the reviews for 3 stars and below really miss the point of this book, they're either looking for a porn style tittilation, an erotic 'story', or literature (with no knowledge of either erotica or porn) this provides neither. I wouldn't even call it a memoir, more an exploration into why and how Ms Millet explores her sexuality through her numerous erotic encounters, and how her mind and body...more

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May 19, 2010 Caitlin rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. WARNING! IF YOU DON'T WANT TO KNOW TOO MUCH ABOUT ME... AND A MEAN TOO TOO MUCH, DON'T READ. IF YOU GET OFFENDED, WELL, I WARNED YOU SO TOO BAD.

As always with a book that can be controversial with those I surround myself with, this is book stands alone in its "No one but me should read" Status. Catherine Millet is a beautiful author, gifted with the ability to be frank about the most excruciating of topics: sex. And not just sex, but lots of sex and lots of sexual activities (things that if my m...more

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Mar 23, 2009 Elizabeth rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: non-fiction

“Millet’s sexual memoir...actually succeeded in taking the sexy out of sex, surely her greatest obscenity,” writes one reviewer of The Sex Life of Catherine M. Mario Vargas Llosa described the book as a “carnal gymnasium, devoid of any sentiment or emotion.” Even Jean Baudrillard chaffed at Millet’s exposure: “If one lifts one’s skirt, it is to show one’s self, not to show oneself naked like truth.” Written with the precise eye of an art critic, the book is a fantastically detailed, if detached...more

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Jan 17, 2012 Valerie Baber rated it 1 of 5 stars

Shelves: sexuality

In the beginning, I found it highly amusing that Catherine Millet spoke so candidly about very detailed, raunchy sexual escapades while still maintaining a very proper voice. In fact, when I began the story, I read it next next to a man who had his own book to read. Heavily into war and politics, his reading material was something about the situation of world affairs, but every time I looked over, I noticed that his eyes were on the pages of my book! It was unfortunate that Millet's voice so qui...more

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May 07, 2008 Yulia rated it 1 of 5 stars

Shelves: me-moirs

Catherine M is sexless (at least towards men), as cold and clinical as a mortician. Fuck that! She has no passion, no fire, no desire even. She just does--in every imaginable way, which isn't shocking, just curiously boring and unexciting. The only scene that showed a peep of desire was, no surprise, when she was with a woman, which makes it clear she can fuck men (and many at one time) to her heart's content with no strings attached because she doesn't give a damn for guys. If she'd only explor...more

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Dec 30, 2012 Iceman rated it 2 of 5 stars

Embora não sendo um apreciador de romances eróticos, este ”A vida sexual de Catherine M.” chegou-me às mãos de uma forma muito curiosa, parecendo ser uma daquelas situações ocasionais do destino que me colocaram nas mãos um livro que poderia ser interessante analisar e perceber até onde teria ido essa tal Catherine M., sobretudo depois de saber que este livro criou um grande impacto em França.

Do livro, uma questão fulcral se levanta: ”O que leva uma conhecida crítica de arte, ainda por mais, dir...more Embora não sendo um apreciador de romances eróticos, este ”A vida sexual de Catherine M.” chegou-me às mãos de uma forma muito curiosa, parecendo ser uma daquelas situações ocasionais do destino que me colocaram nas mãos um livro que poderia ser interessante analisar e perceber até onde teria ido essa tal Catherine M., sobretudo depois de saber que este livro criou um grande impacto em França.

Do livro, uma questão fulcral se levanta: ”O que leva uma conhecida crítica de arte, ainda por mais, directora de uma prestigiada revista de arte, descrever, de uma forma nua e crua, toda a sua vida sexual?”

Honestamente não sei! Sobretudo depois de ler o livro.

O livro tem pouco para analisar ou a contar, pois é simplesmente um desfilar de recordações misturadas com factos imaginários a partir da altura em que Catherine Millet perde, aos 18 anos, a virgindade.

Pertencente à geração que defendia a liberdade sexual, Catherine lança-se numa promiscuidade sem regras, numa selvajaria sexual sem limites, sem cuidados e sem fronteiras. Catherine pratica sexo puro e duro da mesma forma que respira, algo intrínseco à sua pessoa, à sua personalidade. Pode-se dizer mesmo que o sexo ocupa o seus pensamentos e actos 24 horas por dia, com centenas de homens, em lugares privados, clubes, automóveis, no campo, casas particulares. Com conhecidos e desconhecidos. Amontoados de corpos onde ele mergulha, onde se entrega sem qualquer tipo de preliminares, apenas sexo por sexo, um cavalgar incessante, violento e sem ponta de sentimento. Ela própria afirma que não sabe a quantidade de parceiros que teve, alguns sem rosto, todos eles onde apenas o falo tinha importância e a forma como a usavam até à saturação física, a perfuravam violentamente, uns atrás dos outros, em catadupa, pela frente, por detrás... violento? Apenas tento transmitir a aberração do relato dela.

É um livro muito cansativo que usa e abusa de uma linguagem vernácula, ostensivamente chocante. Catherine narra sem qualquer pudor toda uma vida dedicada à prática sexual sem limites, um exibicionismo admitido, uma prática animal sem freio, pouco ou nada erótica e sim altamente doentia, paranóica, pois a diferença que separa o ser humano dos animais é aqui completamente diluída nos actos dementes desta mulher.

Muitos podem gostar, achar erótico e até excitarem-se com as descrições, inclusivamente surpreendeu-me Eduardo Prado Coelho afirmar: ”ler este livro é uma experiência de leitura poderosa e inesquecível”. Poderosa em que aspecto? Inesquecível é de facto tal a javardice e promiscuidade relatada.

Agora o livro valerá alguma coisa?

Certamente que sim, pois sabe-se que o narrado por Catherine, por muito que possa ser chocante, é algo que cada vez mais é algo comum nas sociedades contemporâneas e muito comum nas sociedades antigas. Ou seja, o livro poderá valer pela análise das situações num contexto social alargado, no entanto e para além de certamente agradar aos vouyeristas, não estou a ver alguém que tire especial prazer das situações narradas e muito menos que aprenda alguma coisa com elas.

Obviamente que sendo ainda um tabu na sociedade contemporânea, cada um de nós vê e pensa o sexo à sua maneira, no entanto considero as experiências relatadas por Catherine Millet, doentias, nada eróticas, explicitamente pornográficas e, ao contrário do que ela afirma, nada têm a ver com a liberdade, pois ela acaba por ficar presa naquele mundo, um mundo onde centenas de homens apenas a viam, ou vêm, como uma gaja que abria as pernas a qualquer um e sugava qualquer pénis.

Isso é liberdade?

Peço desculpa por algumas das palavras aqueles mais susceptíveis, mas tentei apenas descrever um pouco da brutalidade dos factos.(less)

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Jun 11, 2007 Bree rated it 1 of 5 stars

Shelves: general-non-fiction

I suppose this was supposed to be propaganda for a lifestyle of casual sex with whoever comes your way. God know I'm open-minded, but I don't think I've ever been so turned off by a naughty book. She seems completely checked out of all the fucking she's doing, often narrating from a distance as she's getting stuffed full of cock. If she think it's this wonderful, liberating thing she's discovered, she certainly isn't selling it very well. I winced and made my 'yuck' face through the whole thing.

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Jul 27, 2012 Ricardo rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: erotica

Lançado em formato de livro de bolso, numa parceria entre a ASA e a FNAC, "A Vida Sexual de Catherine M", da jornalista francesa Catherine Millet, acabou por ser o mais bem sucedido exemplar dessa colecção. Pode haver vários motivos para tal. No que a mim diz respeito, lembro-me de ter adquirido a terceira edição da obra, poucos meses após esta estar disponível. Li... Corrijo, comecei a lê-lo pela primeira vez nessa altura, ainda com vinte Primaveras incompletas. As expectativas para o livro saí...more Lançado em formato de livro de bolso, numa parceria entre a ASA e a FNAC, "A Vida Sexual de Catherine M", da jornalista francesa Catherine Millet, acabou por ser o mais bem sucedido exemplar dessa colecção. Pode haver vários motivos para tal. No que a mim diz respeito, lembro-me de ter adquirido a terceira edição da obra, poucos meses após esta estar disponível. Li... Corrijo, comecei a lê-lo pela primeira vez nessa altura, ainda com vinte Primaveras incompletas. As expectativas para o livro saíram totalmente goradas, não correspondidas, senti que foi dinheiro mal empregue.

Vários factores estariam na base dessa desilusão. Um livro que tem por título "A Vida Sexual" de alguém e que causa alguma celeuma no seu país de origem, não deve ser um livro que prime por pasar uma visão polida, idealizada e púdica, digna de ser partilhada num almoço ou jantar de família. Ou um jovem adolescente assim o pensa!

O factor de choque nesta obra parece que incide não no vocabulário utilizado, não nos relatos descritivos, mas sim na essência do que eles passam. Não é o que diz, mas sim o que não diz que choca na obra. Choca certamente o despudor com que uma figura pública torna pública a sua intimidade, desde as primeiras experiências adolescentes até uma vida adulta recheada de orgias e experiências menos ortodoxas. Só que tudo faz sentido, tudo é parte de um processo, tudo é crescimento e aprendizagem, uma procura da identidade da autora.

O tom da escrita é o de balanço, introspecção. O tom que se usa quando sentimos que parte de nós chegou ao destino e nos propomos a ver como foi a viagem. Funciona, o livro, como balanço ou como exercício de sofá de psicólogo! Uma expedição arqueológica a episódios do nosso crescimento que nos ajudam a perceber porque somos assim, como chegámos onde chegámos. O livro poderia facilmente ter outro título: "A Descoberta Sexual de Catherine M.".

Nesse processo de descoberta, a autora acaba por colocar em planos distintos a sua sexualidade e os seus relacionamentos emocionais. Há, ao longo do livro, uma clara distinção entre ambos, uma distinção que chega a roçar o sobre-humano, uma distinção e um leque de ocorrências que parecem saídas de um filme pornográfico de baixo orçamento, que levam o leitor a questionar-se se não estará a ler uma versão fantasiada dos factos. E isso choca!

Esse é, parece-me, o principal factor de choque no livro. O facto de ser possível colocar em planos distintos a vida sexual e a vida emocional, apesar de se tocarem, vai contra o nosso desenvolvimento e choca. O facto de haver a posibilidade, mesmo que remota, de aqueles factos serem reais, expõe-nos como hipócritas, como criaturas que lutam contra a sua própria natureza. Que o faça numa linguagem simples, sem abusar do calão, mas não se coíbindo de chamar o caralho, o cu, a cona ou os colhões pelos nomes que todos usamos quando falamos, apenas reforça esse sentido de choque.

Haverá quem queira odiar o livro pela explicitude que não tem e acabará a odiá-lo por se recusar a cair no banal, no pornográfico. Por outro lado, o público mais imaturo, o público das vinte Primaveras, acabará por odiar o livro por não ser suficientemente pornográfico. Para esse público o livro não lhes dá nada de mais, para esse público há uma panóplia de outras ferramentas. É por isso que este é um livro que deve ser lido, preferencialmente, por gente madura: quem não se conseguir chocar com o livro e o achar banal, provavelmente ainda não tem quilómetros de estrada suficientes para ler o que não está escrito. Só uma audiência madura conseguirá notar a fina linha que na obra separa as vicissitudes e o sofrimento das alegrias vividas, porque a forma de a autora ultrapassar umas e saborear as outras, é em camas, ao ar livre, com um parceiro ou com vinte. É polémico por expôr uma pessoa. E todos somos humanos...(less)

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May 15, 2012 Oin is currently reading it

art critic's depiction of her experience in the swingers scene in 1960's paris. i like her nonchalance, feeling aligned with her passivity, and (as i normally do) the fleshing-out of parisian venues.

"we found a ready-made philosophy in bataille."

"finding myself vacant, then, with no other mission to fulfill, i grew into
a rather passive woman, having no goal other than those that other people
set for me. i am more than dependable in the pursuit of these aims; if
life went on forever, i would pursu...more

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May 05, 2012 BeeQuiet rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: non-fiction, sexuality

Modern art critic Catherine M. here details her sexual life, both in acts and in thought, from childhood to marriage in a way which provokes more thought than titillation.

I can understand the frustrations of people who have read this book and found it tedious in the extreme, however coming from a background of studying sociology and focusing especially on the sexual, I found it fascinating. Catherine's level of detachment allows for a more nuanced appraisal of her own sexual experiences, bringi...more

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Apr 16, 2011 Ape rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: biographies-memoirs, the-book-group-books

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. In the second series of the Book Group, a comedy set in Glasgow, this was one of the books they read, which it how I came to hear of it and thought I would read it. I started reading it when I was part way through The Scarlet Letter - maybe as an antidote to all that puritan moralising.

This is a curisoity of a book - more in your reaction to it than the book itself. This is Catherine Millet's memoirs, but exclusively on her sexual life, so you might end up thinking this is all she did with her l...more In the second series of the Book Group, a comedy set in Glasgow, this was one of the books they read, which it how I came to hear of it and thought I would read it. I started reading it when I was part way through The Scarlet Letter - maybe as an antidote to all that puritan moralising.

This is a curisoity of a book - more in your reaction to it than the book itself. This is Catherine Millet's memoirs, but exclusively on her sexual life, so you might end up thinking this is all she did with her life - hey, I don't know, maybe she did, but I think she did have a job etc as well. So it's about sex, her thoughts on the matter, all the various encounters she has had and so on. And she's done it all, including group sex with random strangers in a dark park, which you'd think would be really quite dangerous, but she seems to have not been fazed by any of it.

It does get boring at times, so I found parts of this book dragged, perhaps as much as the puritanical moralising that was going on in The Scarlet Letter. And sometimes she just felt so disconnected from life and from people, that she was going through life with no feeling or passion, just letting random men do whatever they felt like with her, and she really didn't care that she was treated as nothing more than a sexual doll. There was one encounter she describes when she goes to this restaurant near Casablanca with a friend that stuck in my mind. But she genuinely doesn't care, and this seems to be her driving force in life. She doesn't apologise for any of it, nor does she revel in it as though she is so superior and more emanicipated than the rest of us. She doesn't have tales of abuse of lists of excuses for why she does what she does. She doesn't view it as slutty, just as she doesn't seem to view someone who doesn't want to do these things as frigid. And I think that by the end there's the positive message that whatever you are, whatever you do or don't, it's ok (ok, so not including anything illegal, hurting other people etc, but you know what I mean.) And I liked the book for that, although I don't know if that was her intention in writing it. (less)

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Jul 25, 2011 Donisha rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I must say I am FAR from a prude so this book may have been up my ally, The book is about sex, I love sex therefore I must read it. Boy was I extremely disappointed. This book was like a really bad porno with words. I mean not even a porno with a "story" its one of those pornos where the pool boy says" i'm here to clean your pool and all of a sudden their are naked." Anyways...Besides being horribly written, I just don't see the point of writing about all of your exploits. But if you are going t...more

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Apr 16, 2012 Lynnette rated it 1 of 5 stars

I tend to be drawn to memoirs by people who are living controversial lives- mostly because I love the self-faithfulness of it all. To be your strongest advocate can be challenging at the best of times, but practically impossible when the life that makes the most sense to you is having random, mostly anonymous sex with as many people as humanly possible.
I was hoping this sexual life memoir of French art critic Catherine Millet would bring clarity and understanding to a topic that can be repulsive...more

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May 16, 2009 William rated it 1 of 5 stars

hooooooorrible. completely boring. you might think that a radical sexual account of a celebrity's life would be shocking. not this one. there's only so many dicks she can suck before it becomes boring. the premise is powerful--a famed art critic is sexually liberated. however, all you really need to know is that catherine millet is a sex fiend. know that she is famous and taht she engages in orgies. the strangest thing is the car orgies... where the cars drive along together and stop every now a...more

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Mar 03, 2010 Sarah rated it 1 of 5 stars

I should have loved this book because it met so many of my predelictions: non-fiction, set in France, all about real sex from a woman's point of view. Problem was, Catherine M isn't much of a writer. If your depictions of anonymous couplings in the Bois de Boulogne or orgies in sex clubs are boring, what business do you have being in print?

Where was Catherine M's interiority? What went through her head as her boyfriend handed her off to random strangers night after night (and what kind of crazy...more

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Dec 06, 2007 Tove rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: sexuality-gender, memoir-autobio-biography

I loooved this book, it's sexually explicit, but ultimately more of a philosophy-of-sex book than straight erotica. The sex acts described are daring but dryly written in most cases, not necessarily meant to titillate, but to provoke thought, written by this highly intelligent French art historian woman.

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Oct 14, 2011 Alex rated it 4 of 5 stars

Fascinating insight into female sexuality, explored through the remembrances of a somewhat atypical intellectual's own experiences.

The book lurches from one chronology to another, harking backwards and forwards to other parts of it's brisk 200 odd pages, but despite the lack of form, and the detachment with which the author details her sexual history - though erotic, this is not erotica - this is one of the most frank, open exposures of a personality you may ever read.

Highly recommended - thoug...more

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Feb 21, 2012 Carly Fisher rated it 1 of 5 stars

Full disclosure: I didn't actually finish this book. It's not that I found the extremely explicit group sex descriptions offensive, it's just after 30 pages of her going on and on about them, I started to grow bored. I flipped ahead to see if any of it was going anywhere, and it didn't. I think it would have been more interesting to hear about the implications of the culture on herself, how she changed, if the group sex clture cahnged, but it was mostly long winded descriptions of outrageous mea...more

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Jan 30, 2013 Henrik Schunk rated it 4 of 5 stars

I must say, I cannot agree with other reviewers on this site. I would never go as far as call someone sick, especially if there is no harming other people involved. The book is a quiet intense account of the authoress sexual encounters with various men in her life. If you are looking for a more imaginative or fairy-fairy approach of the subject matter, probably Anne Rice's "Claiming of sleeping beauy" would be a better choice. Catherine Millet's book however is gritty, postmodern and inspiring.

I...more

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May 11, 2010 Bob rated it 2 of 5 stars Recommends it for: voyeurs

EXCERPT:
"I really like sucking men's cocks."

She really likes to masturbate, too. Most of all, Catherine M. likes writing about sucking men's cocks and masturbating. I'm sure she feels much better having written this book about her favorite pastimes.

She has an amazing memory for penises and random encounters. I guess it's no worse than other books by fans about their hobbies. But such a shapeless, pointless memoir of fishing, or gardening, or any other hobby besides SEX wouldn't have been publi...more

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May 05, 2008 Lynn rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: nobody

Uh, yeah... I wouldn't read this one on the train. Or anywhere else, for that matter. Never has so much sex been so un-sexy.

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Mar 27, 2009 Trixie Fontaine rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: non-fiction

Frank, dirty, forthright. I celebrated every disgusting detail she shared. There were so many things she's "into" that I'm not (ex. gang bangs) but I *recognized* her as a sexual being and woman and could relate to her motivations and casual attitude towards immersing herself in sex while successfully maintaining a career. While I'm not personally a big fan of dirty assholes, I totally GET how they turn HER on. Fantastic stuff. I don't know if the translation adds to the matter-of-fact tone or i...more

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Feb 23, 2009 B rated it 3 of 5 stars

I needed to read something interesting and fluffy enough to read that could hold my interest while I'm back stage in the dressing room waiting for my cue to enter and throw up fake vomit on stage. So far, so good. This book can definitely underscore the screaming of obscenities and feigned sexual acts on stage.

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I like talking about sex. I like thinking about sex. I thought I was fairly free and adventurous when it came to sex. This book proved me wrong. I'm small potatoes. Little bitty potato...more

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Mar 14, 2010 Lucy rated it 2 of 5 stars

So, I have very mixed feelings about this book. Strangely, it was sort of monotonous. I just wanted her to get to some point, which she never does. But, she is not unlikeable and occasionally her musings seemed vaguely relevant. What really struck me though, was that for all her claimed comfort with her vast sexual experiences, she actually did not come across as an enthusiastic, or even consciously willing participant. I got the distinct feeling she was talking herself into enjoying her experie...more

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Jun 27, 2011 Susa rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2011

Seksi on näköjään aihe, josta voi kirjoittaa ilman juonta. Kirja eteni jatkuvien panojen ja orgioiden kertomuksena, jossa tapahtumat eivät sen enempää nivoutuneet yhteen minkäänlaiseksi kerronnalliseksi tarinaksi. Toistuva paneminen ja sen kuvaaminen kävi rasitaamaan, mielenkiintoista sen sijaan oli kertojan syvällinen (voisi todeta että filosofinen) pohdinta siitä, mitä tapahtui ja miksi tapahtui.

Takakannessa verrattiin Henry Millerin Sexukseen naisen kirjoittamana. Pelkkä seksistä kirjoittami...more

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Aug 22, 2011 Joey rated it 3 of 5 stars

More of a 2.5 rounded up. For all its debauchery and fantastical detail of a subject that is anything but boring, I found "The Sexual Life of Catherine M" rather tiresome. The writing emits a droning evenness of tone and the post-modern conjugations seem forced. I wanted to be led in to her tales but the writing--perhaps the translation--pushed me away. On the other hand, it's hard not to appreciate the significant difference in attitudes and mores regarding sexuality that The Sexual Life reiter...more

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Aug 15, 2011 Daniela rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

It was a hardcover, and it cost cheaper than a paperback.
That should've been a sign.

I bought the book out of curiosity. Yes, I know, it killed the cat.
Curiosity, not the book; although I suspect this book may very well have lethal effects as well - one could easily die of boredom reading it.

I intended to read it carefully and take notes, as I usually do, for an accurate and well-grounded opinion. At some point I resolved it was futile and, moreover, not worth it, when I realized I had already wr...more

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