Introducing Marquis de Sade

Rating:
Summary: More like a comic book than a novel
Review: While this would be a good book for someone who had not previously read about de Sade's life, it probably won't be of much interest for those who are more familiar with him. This book didn't tell me anything I hadn't already read elsewhere, and I could have done without all the drawings. It wasn't the content of the pictures that bothered me, but the fact that most of the time they took up a majority of the page, and in some cases there were only two or three lines of text. I had expected a few illustrations in a more 18th century style, not something that was mostly all pictures drawn in a more comic book style. For those looking for more well researched ways to learn about de Sade and his life, I would recommend "Letters From Prison", "At Home With the Marquis de Sade", or "Must We Burn Sade". In "Introducing Marquis de Sade" there is definitely some interesting artwork, but there is too much of it in most places, to the point where it distracts from the text.

Rating:
Summary: More like a comic book than a novel
Review: While this would be a good book for someone who had not previously read about de Sade's life, it probably won't be of much interest for those who are more familiar with him. This book didn't tell me anything I hadn't already read elsewhere, and I could have done without all the drawings. It wasn't the content of the pictures that bothered me, but the fact that most of the time they took up a majority of the page, and in some cases there were only two or three lines of text. I had expected a few illustrations in a more 18th century style, not something that was mostly all pictures drawn in a more comic book style. For those looking for more well researched ways to learn about de Sade and his life, I would recommend "Letters From Prison", "At Home With the Marquis de Sade", or "Must We Burn Sade". In "Introducing Marquis de Sade" there is definitely some interesting artwork, but there is too much of it in most places, to the point where it distracts from the text.