So last night the Kindle was left firmly on the bench as one
reluctantly yielded to the body's insistence that sleep was an essential need.
What caused this reluctance you may be wondering? Ah well for a change He put
an engrossing little book on it, rather than the deeply disturbing and darkly misogynistic
offerings that he normally loads up. He put on it a bit of BDSM porn, admittedly
very soft porn, in the form of Kushiel's Dart.
Now as a rule one avoids these sorts of books mainly because
they are crap... let us remember the 50 Shades of Travesty for a second.
Hmmm... Maybe not... shudders quietly. Anyway let's be honest they are usually
poorly written, even for pulp. This one however, is engrossing and quite a good
read. Though one remains unconvinced that the pace manages to sustain seven
books... we shall see.
This book is often cited as the reason some got into BDSM...
and one has to say that the rich sensuous world is inviting. There are only a
couple of glitches so far... well one did get to manage nearly a third of the
first book while stuck in a traffic jam for three hours last night. The most
niggling one so far is the idea that the young heroine and worlds great masochist
is holed up night after night suffering such delicious guilt about masturbating.
Living as she does in a culture that celebrates the sacred
whore and believes in 'love as thou wilt" one can't help but think it was
put in there to make her seem less... well whorish. Particularly at her tender
age of 14. Yeah don't really buy that it was until then before she started all
that self love stuff either. Meh maybe one is just too cynical and maybe one
can't help but feel it was just put in there to appease our modern brand of
sexual unease... particularly in regards to teenage sexuality.
4 comments:
It is most definitely not crap. I am through the third book.
"Yeah don't really buy that it was until then that she started all that self love stuff either"
I think you must mean " ... was not until then ..."
It is notable that nowadays sexuality has to wait until middle teens before it is allowed to be recognised. Anyway, you prompted me to start reading it. A bit slow-paced I thought, and is rather turgid for my taste, I prefer watercolours to oils in literature. But I'll continue to the end of the first book at least.
@Malcolm Sort of... mind you at 5.30 am, pre mouse, it is a miracle that there is any coherence at all :D
Seriously though one prefers oils. The literary tastes run to D.H. Lawrence amongst others... can't get more turgid than that LOL
The first book isn't the best of the series, since you have to spend so much time in getting the background, mythology, etc., but her writing is exquisite. Although her other series, the Sundering, was awful, in my opinion. Both Kushiel series, and the follow up Naamah series are definitely worth the time spent.
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