Book clubs

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I tried to think of some Match Game '75 slash fiction but I kept drawing a blank.

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Iā€™m going to suggest vetoeing this one. I read it when I was young and stupid (now, of course, Iā€™m old and stupid). Itā€™s an awful book, both for plot (letā€™s kidnap a bunch of kids and rape and kill them in a remote castle!) And execution. Only the first part is actually complete, the rest is just a list of perversions in the order he was going to write about. The only surprise is how late in the list the religious perversions turn up.

Give it a miss, your life will be better for it.

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Twas more of a comment on the zeitgeist than a serious suggestion. Iā€™ve read Justine, a much shorter work, and thought it was reasonably decent, but, based solely on that book, Iā€™m at a loss as to why so many intellectuals and artists thought he was so great.

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You have to wonder if itā€™s because he wrote a book where the protagonist fucked a lot of children.

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True, one of his early champions was that well known pervert, Simone de Beauvoir.

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