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    <![CDATA[Belle de Jour: Diary of an Unlikely Call Girl]]>
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    <![CDATA[DESCRIPTION: Belle couldn't find a job after University. Her impressive degree was not paying her rent or buying her food. But after a fantastic threesome with a very rich couple that gave her a ton of money, Belle realized that she could earn more than anyone she knew--by becoming a call girl. The rest is history. Belle became a twenty-something London working girl--and had the audacity to write about it--anonymously. The shockingly candid and explicit diary she put on the Internet became a London sensation. Now, in BELLE DE JOUR, she shares her entire journey inside the world of high-priced escorts, including fascinating and explicit insights about her job and her clients, her various boyfriends, and a taboo lifestyle that has to be read to be believed. The witty observations, shocking revelations, and hilarious scenarios deliver like the very best fiction and makes for a titillating reading experience unlike any other.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I remember reading the occasional snippet from Belle de Jour's blog back in the day - I found the character irritating then, and she's even more so in book form (and I imagine anyone who loved and read the blog would be bored with the book, as it recycles plenty of material).  This seems like such a shallow and unrealistic view of what it is to be a sex worker - I read the fantastic &quot;Callgirl&quot; by Jeannette Angell after this which is far better - and I become irritated with reading a book that was obviously designed to titillate and nothing beyond that.]]></body>
    
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