I had read this as a teenager and thought it was racy then. Yes it has steamy sex scenes, and a twisted ending, but the rest is so jam packed full of name dropping (names that are meaningless in today's world) and places such emphasis on names: brand names, star names, fashion names, etc. it became boring. Most characters are described by "who" they are wearing, what hot place they are going, etc. As I mentioned, many of these names are no longer known today, so they meant nothing as I read them, they were just superfluous words, boring!!! And the names were used to such excess!! I don't think anyone does that in novels today, I think they'd be sued!! LOL