7.- The Sexual Life of Catherine M. by Catherine Millet Plot, if any: Memoir by art critic, involves lots of group sex. Teaser quote: “Undressing, I love to gaze on a promising-looking cock.”
8.- Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
9.- Maidenhead by Tamara Faith Berger Plot, if any: A 16-year-old on vacation dreams
Plot, if any: Writer drinks and screws
of losing her virginity, and ultimately does.
his way through Paris.
Teaser quote: “At the beach, college girls
Teaser quote: “I too love everything
lay in groups on the sand around buckets of
that flows: rivers, sewers, semen,
drinks, their bums curved up like fruits. Mine
blood, bile, words, sentences. I love
didn’t do that.”
the amniotic fluid when it spills out of
I love the kidney with it’s painful gall-
10.- Belle de Jour by Joseph Kessel
stones, it’s gravel and what-not; I love
Plot, if any: Repressed housewife seeks
the urine that pours out scalding and
masochistic outlet.
the clap that runs endlessly; I love the
Teaser quote: “The pleasure the degradation
words of hysterics and the sentences
had given her had vanished almost as soon
that flow on like dysentery and mirror
as the man who caused it touched her. He
all the sick images of the soul.”
had taken her dead.”
the bag.
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