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    <body><![CDATA[The most useful piece of advice on literary criticism that I've ever come across is Nabokov's dictum to identify with the author, not the characters. This book is a perfect example. If you make the mistake of identifying with O, it's all a bit bewildering. Why exactly is she interested in being blin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39351304">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is a classic, although people have been a bit slow at recognizing it.  When it was written, it was shocking. Today it may still be for some.  It's the story of a woman and her lover.  It's a story of pain, and an unusual sort- deliberately inflicted and, in some capacity, enjoyed.  The boo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1116825">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[From the Guardian 4 May 1998:<br/>Dominique Aury, who has died aged 90, was for half a century a pillar of the French establishment. Yet she will be remembered less for her influence on modern French literature than as the key to one of the most celebrated literary mysteries of hte 20th century.<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23857145">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Shocking!  Seriously shocking!  And that, despite all the sex, drugs, violence, etc. that we are constantly barraged by.  This book is seriously shocking.  I mean it.  Things are done in this book that even nihilist sadomasichists would be wide-eyed at.<br/>The author cleverly first draws readers i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6377822">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[....preferably while eating bonbons, cutting class, and wearing snagged-up fishnet stockings and too much eye makeup.<br/><br/>I don't remember anything about this book except that I think it pretty much delivered on what I expected a slightly older, naughty, European sex novel would be like. It i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10392121">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Since my child is currently one of my 2 friends, I will refrain from writing a real review of this book. Manon, when you're living far far away and are much older you should check this out. And when you do, please don't tell me about it. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not for the faint-hearted or the closed-minded, this novel is a strangely romantic tale of willing enslavement. I suspect anyone who has even a hint of Dom/sub tendencies would appreciate and enjoy this book - it may not be brilliantly written, but it is the most real published account (ie. not blog...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44389685">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I actually read this book twice, positive I missed whatever it was that makes it so highly rated by many people whose taste I respect.  Yes, I acknowledge that it was, for its time, a remarkable,ground breaking story.  Its publication opened the gates for many other authors to discuss sexual matters...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27053134">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My parents had a pretty hands-off attitude to my compulsive reading, and so in my early adolescence I read a lot of stuff that probably did my developing sexuality no good. Finding this book at a garage sale (I picked it up because I had read of it in /Playboy/, another ungoverned input) and reading...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1580449">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this only because it was tagged 1001 to read before you die.  I'm neither pro nor con on it.  But BEWARE which version you buy.  This is BS!  My version, by Ballantine Books with the white dust jacket HAD NO LAST CHAPTER.  It has TWENTY SEVEN pages of lead in &quot;notes&quot; and preamble, m...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20638141">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[While this was one of the most original and mind blowing books I've ever read (and the history behind it is fascinating as well), it is definitely not for everyone, especially the sexually squeamish and the faint of heart. It deals with a sadomasochistic relationship in early 20th century France. It...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11850339">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I like the history of this book most of all.<br/>Composed by a member of the Academie Francaise, who created it in response to a challenge by her lover to write a &quot;Marquis De Sade&quot; novel and that he stated a woman could never create a book like that.  It was written as a series of love le...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39500461">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I usually read anything anyone suggests to me, which is how I came to read <em>Story of O</em>.<br/><br/>This is an erotic novel about a young woman's journey into the  <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bdsm">BDSM</a> lifestyle. While this is not a lifestyle choice for me, I am curious as to why others participate in it, so I hoped this book might g...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65324018">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was not what I was led to believe it was but that didn't make it necessarily bad.  I think a lot of people believe it is a work of erotic literature.  I found it in the erotic literature section of the book shop.  I don't particularly consider it erotic literature.  Although there are erot...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52226470">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Bleh.  Bleh. Bleh.<br/><br/>I didn't care about anyone in this story, not even the tortured &quot;slave&quot;, O.  She wanted to be treated that way and got off on it, so how can one feel sorry for her.  But I don't think feeling sorry for her was the point....I think the point was supposed to be ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54003563">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[An extremely disturbing piece of erotic literature that will turn your stomach a long time after having finished reading. Very graphic. No romance here. It's a frightening story of creepy, sadistic sexual power.  Very difficult to rate.  If you like reading this kind of story then you could easily g...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16390702">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ahhh O. Read this during my erotica spree in early teens. Fueled certain fantasies I really believe were therapeutic towards the development of my thought-processes. I mean that the concept of eroticizing self discipline can help one achieve many goals with pleasure. You know...a spoonful of sugar, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/362051">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Okay, so I am reading this book now on the way to Disney World. Maybe not the most appropriate read for the occasion, but I bet the plane ride will go fast! <br/><br/>I chose to read this after reading The Lover (and loving it) and 100 Strokes of the Brush Before Bed. There is something about inte...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39317171">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I could hardly wipe the blush off my face after reading this book. I realize that for it’s time this was a controversial book. And I imagine that today it still is. In truth I read this at a friend’s recommendation. Little did I know that it would make me a little repulsed and often time asking ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43834294">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have been intrigued by this book for quite some time, but it entered my thought process again in a recent episode of Frasier (the episode that Niles hosts a &quot;dress up as your favorite literary character&quot; and Roz comes dressed as &quot;O&quot;). <br/><br/>Unfortunately, I didn't care for ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52429087">more...</a>]]></body>
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