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Slaves of the Empire (Paperback)

by Aaron Travis (Author) "Magnus the gladiator ran the whetstone down the length of his long sword ..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 109 pages
  • Publisher: Harrington Park Press Inc; New edition edition (30 Mar 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1560235586
  • ISBN-13: 978-1560235583
  • Product Dimensions: 20.8 x 15 x 1.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 379,882 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"Smart, Psychologically Astute, and Beautifully Written. . . . Literature that is Compelling, Provoking, and Sexually Exciting. . . .A high point of gay male writing in the second half of the twentieth century."
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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars gory, 9 Jun 2007
By Furio (Genova - Italy) - See all my reviews
First of all a word of caution: this short novel is not for everyone and will not suit everybody's tastes: it deals not only with explicit gay sex but also with s/m and sheer, gory violence.
It might therefore be offensive to sensitive and or conservative readers, both gay or not.

Mr Travis takes a rather deep plunge into masochistical sexual relationships.
He seems to know very well that many people, while publicly rejecting submission and violence -even among consenting adults- still may feel compulsively attracted to it and play with this weakness presenting us with extreme violence, rape and blodshedding.

Gay men, being men in the first place, therefore educated to be or at least to try to appear strong and self confident, possibly feel the lure of these topics even more strongly and fiction can be a safe and legal way to indulge in these inclinations, if it is a good prose at least.

Our author, probably aware of all the above, seems scared though about giving in too fully to these topics or was possibly hindred by the original destination of it, gay act magazine.
Be it as it may he is rather prone to withdrawing the figurative offending hand and to superficiality.

It is a pity. Provided a reader is not easily offended by these topics, the conflict of Magnus, the main character, a strong, self sufficient, famous gladiator torn between his pride, sense of personal dignity and his submissive tendencies, between the savage beast within and the decent human being without could have been most interesting if treated with the necessary attention.
This being an erotic novel, this conflict could have been even sexually arising.

The proficient writing demonstrates that it is not lack of skill that prevents this novella from being good or longer, much longer and much more satisfying.
The Roman setting serves the purpose well, the late empire having been after all notorious for its cruelty and debauchery.
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