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Summary: Wonderful Read
Review: Anais Nin has a true gift for the erotic. Her writing is sensual with a touch of hardcore delicately placed so as not to turn the reader away. I was carried along with each character. A wonderful read for those interested in exploring the deeper,slightly darker side of their soul.
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Summary: Amazing, yet again
Review: Anais writes erotica like no other writer. She makes you feel what her characters are feeling. You escape into their world of fantasy. Anais brings out the erotic side in you. She makes you want to experience everything that her characters are experiencing.
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Summary: Hooked on Anais Nin!
Review: Having read Delta of Venus, I couldn't wait to read another Anais Nin book. Little Birds is the follow-up to Venus. Again, Nin captures your intellect as well as your senses with her dark, lurid and erotic stories. "The Model" is my favorite vignette. Stories that center on painters of nude men and women and their models are always insatiable. This one, of course, is not an exception. I must point out, however, that this effort does not exceed Delta of Venus. The first collection is far more memorable than this one. Even so, Anais Nin explores female desires with unflinching clarity. Little Birds is a true masterpiece written by a woman for women. What beautiful effort! I shall read more of her work in the future...
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Summary: Elegantly sensual
Review: I adore this book. It's really erotic, but tasteful and refined; it also is cleverly written and sensual, so much that you'll be transported into the stories. I didn't like two of the tales at all, but if you leave them out, this is a very good book. I also reccomend Anais Nin's diary.
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Summary: Very first time...
Review: I adored this book of stories. Though this book was my first exposure to erotica, and not my last, it remains my favorite. Anais' expertise in handling the English language is remarkable; she effectively describes each moment, each thought of all her characters. Her stories, in both this and also in Delta of Venus, are very short, true. There is good reason, I believe, for this. Less is more, as she proves eloquently in all of her writings. She is able to say so much, and is perfectly concise in what she needs to express to make her stories human. Her stories arouse, and leave one craving for more. Try this book.
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Summary: This is my favorite Anais Nin book (so far)...
Review: I thoroughly enjoyed reading "Little Birds"... All the stories were well written... Full of poetic metaphors surrounded by hardlined reality... She touches on many subjects within this book poetically and eloquently...
In fact under my future band Lunar to Solar, I have a song entitled "I'm A Little Bird" that was directly inspired by this book...
So I definitely recommend this book to any Anais Nin fan (and fans of erotic authors in general)... I am sure you will enjoy it - Savannah Skye...
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Summary: You won't want this to end!
Review: Let me begin by saying that I had not previously read Nin before, but was recommended to it. I was familiar with the works of Pauline Reage - but this took my breath away. Where Reage is dark and desparate, and a victim to her passion(obsession?), Nin rejoices in the tastessightssmellssensations of pleasure with the soul of an artist and a gourmet. There is a wealth of emotion here - If anyone is confused about the difference between pornography and erotica, this will set them straight. Erotica is literature, and transcends the purely physical. This is as much an arousal of the mind as of the body. Men especially need to read more works of this type if they are looking for a deeper understanding of how women think and feel about sex.
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Summary: beautiful, wondrous, extraordinary filth.
Review: Little Birds is a compilation of Anais Nin at her best - these stories are jagged, sweet little pieces of the author herself. As you read them, you reassemble them for a clearer picture of her. Nin was far ahead of her day, always. She can be outright disgusting, but in a way that is absolutely beautiful and touching. She brings out things we've all thought of. And some of have acutally acted upon - if you have not, Anais Nin will inspire you to do so. Choosing a favorite is nearly impossible. They are all good and so elegantly constructed that when they are over, you don't want them to be .... you are left wondering what is to become of these characters that have been breathed to life by their creator.
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Summary: Erotic Literature
Review: Little Birds, Anais Nin's classic book of sensual short stories, transports the reader to an era when women rarely revealed their ankles, much less the secret parts of her anatomy. Thus, it's hard to imagine a woman from that period being so in touch and so daringly indulgent of her sensuality as Anais Nin.
Clearly ahead of her time, Nin's short stories, though sometimes quite graphic and shocking in content, are beautifully poetic and musical at the same time.
Delta of Venus is next on my list.
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Summary: Nin's sexual sublimation
Review: Nin, in this interesting collection of very short stories, tersely and quietly impugns the social stigma of promiscuity in a greater context of fantasy and symbol. Virtually devoid of florid descriptions of classical love and the game-like foreplay of courtship, "Little Birds" opens a passage into sedate, frank accounts of tenderness and the force of pure sexuality. Nin knew her audience well, and in tampering with sacrosanct traditions ever so lightly, she caresses the eroticism of taboo as much as that of standard sexual fantasy. This is truly a sublime read.
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