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    <body><![CDATA[It's been about 2 decades since i read Querelle, but the scenes and poetic style marked me like a tatooed sailor.<br/>  <br/>Warning: the scenes are sexually and violently graphic.<br/>Yet, when the  murderous main character describes how he felt when he killed..Well, it's mind-boggling that Gene...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/591730">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[As a straight man, I sure do have a love for Gay literature and Gay authors.  Genet is just an once-in-a-life-time genius.   &quot;Querelle&quot; is a magnificent book that is so iconic that I can't imagine anyone on this planet passing this book up.   And again, i have a love for the twilight world...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8682430">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Hmm... not one of Genet's best... Definitely not a good place to appreciate his work. I decided to read this after watching that strange Fassbinder film adaptation, which I thought was interesting until the totally anticlimactic ending. The novel has a similarly anticlimactic end. I don't know why t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5621251">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Well..  After 33 yrs or so of reading Genet..  I reckon he just doesn't do it for me anymore.  The things that I probably found energizing when I 1st started reading his bks, the criminal philosophizing, is mostly tedious to me now.  &amp;.. the cocks..  oh am I sick of the cocks..  Do we really exist i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39021381">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[historical note, he was making fun of the closeted and muched adored french author <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q=pierre loti" title="pierre loti">pierre loti</a> and his book <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q= my friend yves" title=" my friend yves"> my friend yves</a>.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Gay French maritime murder-porn! Pretty good read, too.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[smells like cigarettes, cum, and motor oil.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The transformative power of murder. Narcissism as and act of spirituality. Very interesting but difficult to read (in the translation). The fact that it is racier than most of today's fiction while maintaining it's literary pitch is amazing. The fact it was written over 50 years ago is unbelievable....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42382505">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't give out 5 stars lightly.<br/>the English translation of <em>Querelle</em> (originally French) is easily one of the best translations I've ever read. The lyrical beauty of the work remains wonderfully in tact. <em>Querelle</em> is super thick, rich, compelling, and dark. The filthy world of sailors and broth...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37932046">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[1 star for being a disastrous editorial effort + 5 stars for its inimitably sexy style and transgressive genius = 3-star average.<br/><br/>As with all Genet, I mostly had no idea what was going on (or why), yet I still was fascinated, aroused, and disturbed. Until Querelle, I had no idea a book co...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22988586">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The best of TiJean]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Now that's what I'm talkin' about - page after page of brooding homoeroticism. Find yourself transported into the schemes, double-crosses, and deepest thoughts of the men in a French port city. And there's mansex, but it's not pansy sex, it's men performing sex acts with men, perfectly masculine stu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24574434">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I must admit that the plot was really mixed, but maybe I just should consider it as Genet's artistic style. The book is written so wonderfully that I can forgive the confusion caused by the plot. I loved the language and the way Genet describes his characters and their thoughts. Not to mention that ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30893105">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Genet truly put the &quot;literary&quot; in &quot;literary smut&quot; with QUERELLE. The prose is exquisitely elegant, like his other great works--Notre Dame des Fleurs, etc.--but the eroticism within the text that doesn't cross into the pornographic despite its explicitness is where the real art li...]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[genet pushes boundaries in this novel as necessity and convention clash. the raw, bleeding tension and blatant disregard for the soft and fuzzy thrust deep inside me and kick started a hunger for faceless encounters in dark alleys.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;The movement arched his entire body and made his basket bulge under the cloth of his trousers. He had at that moment, despite his being cloistered, . . . the nobility of an animal which carries its whole load between its legs.&quot;]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[i'll quote directly from page 255. &quot;this book goes on for too many pages, and it bores us.&quot;]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Well, it is full of buggery, but it's so much more. And not just the notion that a body is nothing but scaffolding for a man's balls.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Interesting.  I enjoyed this overall; some parts were better than others.  I expected more, though.  ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[at the behest of karin.  this book is so homoerotic it might fair better on samm's shelf.  ]]></body>
    
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