The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty :The First of the Acclaimed Series of Erotic Adventures of Sleeping Beauty

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1. jason says:

   September 14, 2010 at 3:48 am

   While I have not yet read this book (I am currently reading Nieztche’s The Geneology of Morals and Lisa Jackson’s tour de force Hot Blooded (I can’t wait for the sequel Cold Blooded, coming to stores July 02), )I could not help but notice the obviously jejune misinterpritations of the previous reviewers. Feeling myself indebted to Rice for her consistently erudite and perspicouos prose, I immediately set out to disprove the aforementioned nugatory scribblings. Even for persons of us who have not read the book, it is abundantly clear that the ostensible sado-masachistic themes of this work function on a privileged level as a suppurating mechanisim, lancing the boil of society’s obdurate plutocrasy. The callipygian protagonist, Beauty, represents the plebian sycophant’s heartrending struggle for approbation in conflict with the desire to extripate his repressively scrofulous satrap. In a gorgeous dual metaphor, this go also captures the tension between the despotic domination of the overweening Freudian superego and the subaltern ego. But that’s only what I reflect; check it out for your own self.
   Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
2. Critique says:

   September 14, 2010 at 6:32 am

   …I was painstakingly discusted with this book! …I delight in erotica, but this was not it. It was disturbing and filled with terrifying mental images. Beating people until they nosebleed is not sensual, its sick! There is enough torture in the world around us, I certainly do not want to read about it, glorified in a book. I didn’t end the book, nor will I ever buy another one of Anne Rice’s books.
   Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
3. Y. J. Sanchez says:

   September 14, 2010 at 8:42 am

   This was the most resistant and sickeing, deprived, tale I have ever read, very disturbing for a weak mind… I have read thousand of tale and exotic too. but nothing like this sick…sick… what-ever… this thing is.
   Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
4. Anonymous says:

   September 14, 2010 at 9:22 am

   I really didn’t know what to expect with this book. I read it take in to take in in a couple of days. It’s a pornographic tale of Sleeping Beauty awoken into a nightmare (unless your a masochist) of sexual torture, rape, and beatings, by a perverted Prince. In fact the entire kingdom or fantasy world that Anne Rice has made is where perversion, and sickness are the norm. Anne Rice tells the tale much like the telling of the classic childrens tale, Sleeping Beauty, meaning in a real elementary way. There are no complex, detailed analyses of the main characters, or any deep character development. There is just a child-like tale that lacks real depth, with a shallow plot, in which one lame sex scene after another, strung together make up the book. It’s a superficial plot like one would read in a children’s book, except with mature content. There is no detailed narrative of what’s going on in each character’s mind. To me, this causes the characters to not appear as real people. Rice just describes the tale, telling what happens by adage, so and so did this, and then so and so did this, and then “beauty’s sex became hot”. A theme that repeats itself…oh, about every single page in dull, repetitive fashion. There isn’t any background on the kingdom in which the tale takes place, and not enough background on the main characters. Which leaves alot of unanswered questions. I establish the plot to be featureless, everyday, and did I mention perverted? The plot can be summed up like so…Beauty is awakened by the Prince by him having sex with her while she’s unconscious of course, and in return he gets to keep her for a few years of rape, torture, and molestations. Excellent stuff eh? Kidnapped by a sadistic prince who derives sexual pleasure from the pain of others, Beauty learns to accept her fate. For the uninitiated, sexual-sadism is the same disorder which afflicts serial killers and rapists across America. These are SEXUAL DISORDERS not something to be glorified. HELLO! But somehow this twisted writer tries to make the type of behavior we lock criminals up for, seem appropriate, and even glorified. At the same time this sick prince is suppose to “like” Beauty (more like lust), and shows a perverse alternating softness, and then pleasure in her torment. The Prince’s mother (the Queen) and several Lords and Ladies reside in the castle where Beauty is taken. Once inside the castle, the tale describes the torture of Beauty and her fellow slaves who are there for a certain period of time, serving out their terms for some grievance or another. The tale of what goes on inside the castle is dull, with no exciting plot developments, just random mind games the slaves are place to. To further thicken (I mean sicken) the plot the Prince’s mother enjoys sexually torturing Beauty as well. So here we have Beauty being raped, beaten, tortured, molested by various characters, including a Mother and Son team. Can it get any sicker? The whole time reading, “The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty,” I could feel nothing but disgust for Beauty’s perpetrators, and sadness for Beauty herself. Beauty’s result to her quandary is not normal. As a replacement for of developing some serious psychological problems, like many young girls who have endured such torture in real life, Beauty comes to accept her torture as ‘ok’, and even comes to delight in her daily rapes, beating, and molestations as something somehow ‘excellent’, or some kind of nonsensical enlightenment. I never realized that the violation of normal human rights, and boundaries is translated by some into ‘englightenment’ (heavy sarcasm). I suppose victims of police cruelty, and additional crimes are on their way to apt enlightened too? Probably not, just traumatized. At no time in the tale are the torturers made to look like the terrible guys. They are glorified even. Another nonsensical part of the tale is that after several days of being raped and tortured, Beauty still finds comparatively smaller things worth crying over, like having her privates exposed to a weirder. After being raped and flogged for a few days in succession, one would become emotionally numb, and having your privates exposed to a weirder would not immediately bring tears. So then we have Beauty supposedly crying over something that shouldn’t seem like such a huge deal anymore, and then we have at the same time Beauty starting to like her torture. There is the feeling when reading this book that the reader is supposed to judge that all of this sick torture, by these perverts, is suppose to be somehow ‘excellent’, and ‘ok’. For example, the slaves, when unrestricted from their daily rituals of rape, torture and molestation are supposed to go back to their normal lives much improved for having veteran such things. I am beginning to marvel what was going on in the mind of Anne Rice, and if she really believes that such things are ok. Neither is it believable that Beauty’s father would just sit back and let the Prince and his fellow perverts do what they wish with his daughter, especially since Beauty’s father is a powerful King with honor, and dignity. The Prince in exchange for Beauty, is said to have restored the King’s lands, and all his ex- allegiences. The King might agree to the arrangement at first, but eventually would gather all the men at his disposal and raid the twisted Prince’s castle, saving his daughter in the process. Now that would be believable. I can’t see why anyone would find this book delightful. Neither can I see how she didn’t get tired of writing the repetitive sex scenes that comprise nearly the entirety of the book over and over and over again, with no exciting twists and turns, just page after page, after page, of one lame sex scene after another.
   One would have to have some kind of sexual disorder themselves in order tell to any of these characters, including Beauty who it seems has went from a perfectly normal person before she met the Prince, to a pain loving masochist in no time. I can’t help but judge that Anne Rice doesn’t really approve of non-consensual sex, and as a replacement for has checked her social conscience at the door in exchange for monetary rewards. I might add that this material has the flavor of something the Marquise De Sade would write, who was locked up for insanity most of his life. He also had paranoid delusions…go figure.
   Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
5. Anonymous says:

   September 14, 2010 at 9:23 am

   Rice starts and keeps on going with
   the mind and body stimulating erotica.
   Lots of spanking. I dare you to try not
   to come.
   Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5