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Summary: impressionable youths
Review: In this world where our youth is already too impressionable (I am 19) this book doesn't really help anyone find that they are worthy regardless of what they do in or out of bed. Healing powers of sex? Right. The only time I can think of it as being healing is when two people who are committed to each other are making love and it's not simply about sex. True the book is poetic but my point that it is sending out a trashy message is proven simply by reading other people's reviews here.People want to avoid reality so much that many will want to live the fairy tales they read. Believe me that not that many people can differentiate between reality and fantasy. Look at what the movie The Craft did for Wicca. Too many people believed that the fiction they were seeing were real and wanted to act like the characters. Fortunately magick is not as simple as portrayed. But sex - anybody can have a go at it. Just something for y'all to think about.
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Summary: A fascinating book of subtleties and sensations.
Review: Part of the fun of being a reviewer is seeing something unusual appear in my mail box. I review for a handful of academic journals and my beat is academic criticism, which I review a lot of almost whether I want, or not. Well, Nymph (a handsomely packaged little hardcover collection), by Francesca Lia Block, & Jaeda DeWalt (Illustrator) is a collection of nine tales of erotic fantasy, Mer: Spirit: Milk: Milagro: Nymph: Goddess: Plum: Fox: Change. All, the tales are loosely linked together evoke and then blend classical, literary Motifs, with contemporary, settings, lifestyles, and preferences.Sadly a major reviewer thought it was his job to thumbnail he contents telegraph (his understanding ) intent of each story. was He used turgid and descriptive language, almost as if you were reviewing an industrial strength porn film. I think he missed the intended market for this work. I will not do that. It is a challenge to say which story I liked the most because in a sense all of then work together a part of a greater whole. I read the entire book in one sitting and have decided to go with those impressions. Mer was a wonderful story which evoked some long latent imagery from Eliot's The Love Song Of J. Alfred Prufrock in my mind, it then took us past it to a liberating and mysterious ending, something that has been for over 80 years since Eliot wrote it. Milk was a different story about love and death, and, and Fox, resonate well with some the Images of Well's The Island of Dr Moreau;. Another thing I liked about by Francesca Lia Block, was the way she wrote about and to an extent towards, and about, but not exclusively for, women. This is a book of subtleties and sensations directed more towards our Senses and sensibilities than our base desire to read about good hot sex in graphic and descriptive language. Francesca Lia Block sharpens our senses with anticipation rather then numbing them with receptive and un mediated images. She understands well the potential of Fantasy Genre to support this type of the erotic short story in the New Millennium It is interesting that and evolving Fantasy Genre has the potential to function as the last refuge for the erotic short story. Circlet Press www.circlet.com has an informative website which foregrounds many very interesting projects, which are directed to a wide range of preferences. I would encourage the reader to check it out. Hardcover, 126 pages Phillip Kaveny, Reviewer
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Summary: EXCELLENT EROTICA
Review: This book is as most of Francesca's books are- a vivid, imaginative fantasy with colorful characters that are more than easy to relate to. Except this book has alot more spice than any of her previous "young adult" novels. The sex is explicit, but at the same time beautiful and real, unlike some trashy romance novel. It interweaves stories of a large group of characters, all connected in some way, and tells how sex can sometimes save a person's soul and create a bonding power unlike anything else. Simply poetic and beautiful. I heavily recommend it to all.
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Summary: impressionable youths
Review: This book is beautiful. I read it on the way to a wedding and was amazed by the poetry and the eroticism. It is a clever book with several interwining tales that do feature sex, but as several reviewers before me have mentioned, these tales focus on the healing power of sex. I think anyone (possibly even a teenager, though I would hope not yet) can understand certain situations in this book. No one other than Francesca could have written this book.
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Summary: Beautiful and healing
Review: This book is beautiful. I read it on the way to a wedding and was amazed by the poetry and the eroticism. It is a clever book with several interwining tales that do feature sex, but as several reviewers before me have mentioned, these tales focus on the healing power of sex. I think anyone (possibly even a teenager, though I would hope not yet) can understand certain situations in this book. No one other than Francesca could have written this book.
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Summary: The Love
Review: This book was extremely helpful to me in getting over a drug addiction. I truly believed in healing sex after this book. I would recommend this book to anyone. I think the bad reviews are from little girls who do not understand this type of text. I want to thank Ms. Block for opening my eyes to the soulmate theory and when reading this book, it helps me to relieze how special he is to me.
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Summary: As amazing and inventive as Block's other work
Review: This is a beautiful collection of erotic stories with every bit as much sadness, complexity and texture as Block's wonderful Weetzie Bat novels. It's one of the best single-author collections of erotica I've ever read. It's very much of a piece with the author's other works, but draws out the erotic elements that are hinted at in Weetzie Bat. Truly lovely, by a writer I'm rapidly coming to regard as a genius.
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Summary: great adult fiction and innovation
Review: This is a fresh, uplifting, delightful book, a great addition to the genre of women's erotica, which is often stilted and formulaic. This book applies FLB's very original poetic musical voice to creat fresh, entertaining and lyrical adult stories, that all very cleverly intertwine.
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Summary: Block brings her own magical fairy-tales to adults
Review: Trying to somewhat change directions, Francesca Lia Block, wrote "Nymph" a collection of short 'erotic' stories for adults. I personally have always questioned that her books were really ever exactly young adult in the first place. But none the less this book is decidedly more adult at least in it's language. Block uses more blunt descriptions which is the only major change that I noticed. And to be honest at first it threw me off. Here are her wonderful tales of love and magic as she's always written but in the middle of these poetic words it's like it breaks for cheap erotica. This would be my only complaint and by probably the second story I was able to somewhat adjust and lose myself once again in her fairy-tales. Picking a favorite of the stories would be difficult because they all really compliment each other. Sometimes it's a character from a previous story returning or even a setting but they all weave together to form a very fine collection of stories.
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Summary: NOT QUALITY LITERATURE, BUT ENTERTAINING!!!
Review: Whereas I'd never call this book quality literature, it is definately entertaining. I read it in under an hour, and it kept my heart beating. It tells several love stories (all heterosexual, except one lesbian story), which are unrelated, but each have one similar character from another to keep them linked... which is a very clever tactic. It's very sexy and magical, and great for a saturday night home alone or a snowed-in sunday afternoon. I definately reccomend this book as a light, frivolous read. Enjoy!! (By the way, the hardcover edition is pocket-sized and purple - very cute.)
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