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Summary: "There is no mistaking the power this man had over me"
Review: "Nine and a Half Weeks" chronicles the speedy decline of one woman into a relationship of S&M that goes beyond the bedroom and dominates her every action and emotion.
Told in the first person by the woman, you never discover the names of the two characters but you feel the passion, the love, and the pain both physical and especially emotional. It's disturbing to read complete submission between two people and you think to yourself you'd never turn over so much control to another person but you never really know until you live it.
The simplicity of this book is what really makes it complicated and even more compelling to read. So many books are packed with pages and pages of fluff but this book is exquisite by simply telling the story with out volumous pages of prose. Beautifully written.
girldiver:)
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Summary: STRANGE
Review: I loved the movie 9 1/2 weeks but after reading this book I realize that I love it because of Mickey Rourke and Kim Basinger. I guess looking at the two of them is what makes the movie so appealing to me and not the whole S&M thing. If you're in to that then I guess you'll love this book. If not, stick to the movie!
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Summary: STRANGE
Review: There are things that i'll never be able to comprehend, even if I live to be 100. For example, being in an S&M relationship. The subject matter in this novel is disgusting and at times horrifying, but the book is very well written. The woman is the narrator, and she tells the story of her relationship years after the fact. She speaks in a very detached way, yet the woman's deep love and devotion for her master are very obvious, despite how sickly she was manipulated. There are certain types of violence that can be very elegant, and i'm not sure that elegant is the word I need here, but this is the case with this novel. It was also scary to see the arrogance and complete thirst for domination that her master had, because it went beyond sex. The robberies she was compelled to commit are proof of that. It is easy to pass judgment on the woman for falling for such a treatment, but the book tells the story extremely well and certainly worth a read.
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Summary: two kinds of pain
Review: There are things that i'll never be able to comprehend, even if I live to be 100. For example, being in an S&M relationship. The subject matter in this novel is disgusting and at times horrifying, but the book is very well written. The woman is the narrator, and she tells the story of her relationship years after the fact. She speaks in a very detached way, yet the woman's deep love and devotion for her master are very obvious, despite how sickly she was manipulated. There are certain types of violence that can be very elegant, and i'm not sure that elegant is the word I need here, but this is the case with this novel. It was also scary to see the arrogance and complete thirst for domination that her master had, because it went beyond sex. The robberies she was compelled to commit are proof of that. It is easy to pass judgment on the woman for falling for such a treatment, but the book tells the story extremely well and certainly worth a read.
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Summary: The original fatal attraction.
Review: This book was published and reviewed as nonfiction in 1978, though it was written anonymously (by "an executive for a large corporation in New York," according to the book flap). It was reissued as a novel when the film adaptation came out. Whether the events recounted happened or not, it has the power and impact of truth in it. A woman becomes involved with a man who keeps taking her deeper into S&M bondage and humiliation, to the point that she has a breakdown and he abandons her at a hospital. The first-person voice of the woman narrating the story is riveting. Everything that happens, no matter how extreme, is conveyed with the same neutral tone; it's up to the reader to pass judgment on the relationship, for she does not. It would be unfair to judge S&M by this book, though, for she didn't know what she was getting into. I recommend McNeill's short book to readers undisturbed by explicit descriptions of kinky sex.
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Summary: The original fatal attraction.
Review: This book was published and reviewed as nonfiction in 1978, though it was written anonymously (by "an executive for a large corporation in New York," according to the book flap). It was reissued as a novel when the film adaptation came out. Whether the events recounted happened or not, it has the power and impact of truth in it. A woman becomes involved with a man who keeps taking her deeper into S&M bondage and humiliation, to the point that she has a breakdown and he abandons her at a hospital. The first-person voice of the woman narrating the story is riveting. Everything that happens, no matter how extreme, is conveyed with the same neutral tone; it's up to the reader to pass judgment on the relationship, for she does not. It would be unfair to judge S&M by this book, though, for she didn't know what she was getting into. I recommend McNeill's short book to readers undisturbed by explicit descriptions of kinky sex.
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Summary: Private glimpse
Review: This is a wonderful glimpse into the very private world of Dominance and submission. What is most shocking about this book is that McNeill wrote her story - and got it published - in the seventies, while this subject-matter is still controversial and hush-hush today.
Her prose is clean, unadorned, yet the book is titillating and thought-provoking. The writer tells her shocking tale in a matter-of-fact way, neither judging nor condoning anyone's behavior, nor making apologies for what is simply a seldom revealed side of human nature.
Those who have more than a passing interest in Erotic Power Exchange will enjoy McNeill's heartfelt account of what must have been - judging by the book's final words - the most important, intense relationship of her life - for better or for worse.
I highly recommend this book.
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