Sasha Grey

At the beginning I wanted to write many things about that but... I don't now, not after last twenty pages. This is not a typical book. This is a string of elaborately detailed images placed one after another in certain fashion that calls for re-read some time later. Why? Because all this images are about idea of the links between imagination and reality. They are not stony real. They are not mushy fantasy. They are links. They are what your brain tells you it see when you look at the picture. Hence the “must remain between us” bit.
P.S. I'm completely sure now that I'm cursed with name “Anna”. Damn.… (más)

No nevim... snaha sokovat netradicnim sexem? O nicem jinem to nebylo, pulka knihy byly eroticke sny hrdinky, jak ji kdo naklada. Mozna snaha sokovat, ze zeny maji rady sex a to i perverzni? Jen popisy snu, nebo z vecirku, kam chodi s kamaradkou Annou: swingers, sadomaso klipy (ala insex), dekadentni vecirek ala Eyes Wide Shut... EWS autorce evidentne bylo vzorem, snazila se dej zaramovat napinavou situaci, odhalenim kultu mysterii kteremu se oddavaji jen ti nejbohatsi a nejmocnejsi. Bohuzel kolize, krize i katastrofa prijdou na radu az ve trech ctvrtinach knihy. Jakoby si autorka uvedomila, ze ma omezeny pocet stran, takze rychle za vsecky ty fantasmagorie o sukani nacpala to dramo, ktere prekotne probehlo na par poslednich strankach. Dost nesourode, no.… (más)

Sasha Grey's first foray into writing is littered with classic film references, and the novel itself centers around a Kubrick-esque secret sex society. It is, predictably, replete with sexual scenarios and lurid imagery but as such it is well written avoiding the purple prose of bad harlequins or the unreadable "steamy" scenes in Fifty Shades of Grey. You'd think that the protagonist in an erotic novel written by a former pornographic actress would be a Mary Sue character, but this isn't the case. The author puts us inside her character's head and keeps us there, with her doubts and insecurities. That said, the progression of the chapters seems formulaic, bouncing from an internal monologue to a sex scene to a plot driving event sequence. Further, the twist at the end also suffers from relying on formula. Howeever, if I had to choose between this and Fifty Shades, I'd choose this. Someone who had sex professionally for years who has also read the erotic classics from De Sade, Bataille, an others obviously pulls it off better than somebody who started out writing smutty fan fiction about teenage vampires.… (más)