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16/100 Things: The Sleeping Beauty Trilogy by Anne Rice
The Sleeping Beauty Trilogy by Anne Rice
(The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty, Beauty's Punishment, Beauty's Release)
These three are on my hated them list. I never loved Anne Rice’s writing that much to begin with. I read and reread Interview with the Vampire over and over before I decided that I liked it. You must understand that there just wasn’t much vampire anything out there at the time so I read it. I liked vampires.
Anyway, back to Beauty. I read them in the early 2000’s. Someone recommended them and like an idiot, I bought them. For some reason, reading these books made me want a bath. They were such a turn off. They weren’t sexy or hot. They were nauseating and disturbing. I wanted to rewrite them and murder Alexi.
Let me backtrack a bit. I do not like BDSM. Pain is not fun and being tied up by anyone just makes me insane and angry. I’d probably kill anyone who did those things to me again. My life is painful enough without help. I have tried to understand this and as the years pass, the whole thing has left me cold. I don’t understand anyone who lives this way and I certainly don’t want to waste any of my life reading Anne Rice’s take on it.
Anne Rice is a ponderous and pompous ass at the best of times and this is not her best work. These books are as badly written as bad fanfiction though not as bad as 50 Shades of Grey, nothing is THAT bad. Maybe if you like being a pony, you’d like them. *SHUDDERS* Her other 'erotic' fiction is as unsexy and stupid too.
I have tried to think of something else to rec in it’s place but the only other ones I’ve read were Story of O, which was almost as stupid as these are and Fanny Hill, which I don’t remember at all.
Maybe I’m just not the girl to read BDSM stuff!
(The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty, Beauty's Punishment, Beauty's Release)
These three are on my hated them list. I never loved Anne Rice’s writing that much to begin with. I read and reread Interview with the Vampire over and over before I decided that I liked it. You must understand that there just wasn’t much vampire anything out there at the time so I read it. I liked vampires.
Anyway, back to Beauty. I read them in the early 2000’s. Someone recommended them and like an idiot, I bought them. For some reason, reading these books made me want a bath. They were such a turn off. They weren’t sexy or hot. They were nauseating and disturbing. I wanted to rewrite them and murder Alexi.
Let me backtrack a bit. I do not like BDSM. Pain is not fun and being tied up by anyone just makes me insane and angry. I’d probably kill anyone who did those things to me again. My life is painful enough without help. I have tried to understand this and as the years pass, the whole thing has left me cold. I don’t understand anyone who lives this way and I certainly don’t want to waste any of my life reading Anne Rice’s take on it.
Anne Rice is a ponderous and pompous ass at the best of times and this is not her best work. These books are as badly written as bad fanfiction though not as bad as 50 Shades of Grey, nothing is THAT bad. Maybe if you like being a pony, you’d like them. *SHUDDERS* Her other 'erotic' fiction is as unsexy and stupid too.
I have tried to think of something else to rec in it’s place but the only other ones I’ve read were Story of O, which was almost as stupid as these are and Fanny Hill, which I don’t remember at all.
Maybe I’m just not the girl to read BDSM stuff!