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published
September 1st 2005
by Seven Stories Press
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Paperback, 224 pages
isbn
1583226885
(isbn13: 9781583226889)
description
"Powerfully written and imparting a disturbing, immediate impact, Grandes' novel, like those of . . . de Sade and Reage . . . is a powerful es...more
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I'm excited about this book. It's good, old fashioned erotica, the way god intended it.
I picked a hell of a book for my first ever erotica novel experience. This book was not unlike Kill Bill or Shoot 'Em Up, where everthing is highly stylized and typified. Grandes seemed to choose the boldest, strangest, kinkiest and weirdest sexual things she could think of and added them to this novel. From transvestites to threesomes and incest, Grandes doles out every sexual taboo one can think of, ...more
I picked a hell of a book for my first ever erotica novel experience. This book was not unlike Kill Bill or Shoot 'Em Up, where everthing is highly stylized and typified. Grandes seemed to choose the boldest, strangest, kinkiest and weirdest sexual things she could think of and added them to this novel. From transvestites to threesomes and incest, Grandes doles out every sexual taboo one can think of, ...more
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Es como un imán, un libro que siempre está a la mano. Un libro erótico. Tal vez el único que si vuelvo a tomarlo sé que me atrapará como lo ha hecho cada vez. Almudena se regodea en la fantasía: salir con el amigo del hermano mayor, hacerte amiga de un trasvesti, los tríos, el incesto, el homosexualismo, el sadomasoquismo las crudas morales, la masturbación... todo tiene lugar en la mente, en el libro de Almudena. Un libro en el que Lulú no es perfecta, en donde te imaginas todo menos ...more
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Read in April, 2008
One of the reviews that I read about this book said that this is an excellent example of passionate writing mixed with good literature. It´s not. I read it really quickly, partly because it´s written in an easy fashion (and much more Spanish that _The Wind from the East_ also by Grandes) and partly because I was so disturbed that I wanted to finish it as quickly as possible. At the end I felt like I did when I finished Coelho´s _Eleven Minutes_. I find it hard to believe that these characters...more
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Read in January, 1998
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This book disgusted me. The only normal sexual act in Las Edades de Lulú involves Lulú shaving her pubic hair so she will be more similar to the pre-pubertal girl she was when her lover first fell in love with her.
My overall impression was that Almudena Grandes just wanted to shock her readers, there was not much else in it. I was not shocked, after studying Latin-American literature not much does, I was only apalled.
After this novel I had to find something to read that no sex in it ...more
My overall impression was that Almudena Grandes just wanted to shock her readers, there was not much else in it. I was not shocked, after studying Latin-American literature not much does, I was only apalled.
After this novel I had to find something to read that no sex in it ...more
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Read in March, 2008
Cuando en el prólogo te informan que esta novela ganó un conocido premio de novela erótica se puede decir que ya sabe uno a lo que va, pero no es cierto. La novela es mucho más fuerte de lo que cabría suponerse, alcanza niveles que harían sentirse orgulloso a Sade; sin embargo, esto no demerita en nada la historia. El idilio entre Lulú y Pablo es, a mi parecer, memorable; la confusión de Lulú y sus pasos en falso, también. No apta para santurrones ni para homofóbicos; recomendable par...more
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Really vile - stopped part way into it. Very graphic and not nice. Avoid.
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Almudena me ha gustado siempre, y en ocasiones me ha encantado. Aquí... me gusta.
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