- Paperback: 245 pages
- Publisher: Atria Books; Reprint edition (11 July 2006)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0743271122
- ISBN-13: 978-0743271127
- Product Dimensions: 18.2 x 12.9 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,982,583 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"A raunchy novel featuring sadomasochistic sex scenes reportedly written by a glamorous young Paris lawyer has sent tremors through the French establishment."
--"Sunday Times" --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
--"Sunday Times" --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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Before there was the Fifty Shades trilogy there was Submission...
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I'm in front of the porte cochere and my life is passing before me. Read the first page
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9 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
For anyone with understand of a relationship involving power exchange I think this will make you feel a bit sick. For anyone without that awareness, this book is harsh, so so wrong and not what submission is about at all. Read it if you want to learn how not to do things. It's a tale of a woman that allows herself to be mentally abused in my opinion. Submisison without the care and protection the of the appropriate balancing Dominance. Nasty in a word.
9 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
...is putting it mildly with this book.
I opened it up in my local bookshop and couldn't believe what I was reading! Not that I've lived a sheltered life, just merely not read that kind of language in a book before. So beware, it's not the sort of thing you'd want your kid to get hold of!
The subject matter, a S&M relationship, is still quite taboo in todays society which may entice you to read it, to get a view on something that people don't tend to talk about. This book is quite honest in it's description, not dressing it up or down or making it glamourous in any way.
I found it hard to understand, not partaking in such an activity, why anyone would want to do this, including the central character who has a successful career and is married with a child, the latter being the only thing that makes her feel guilty for messing about.
All in all, the book follows day by day as she becomes more dependant and reliant on his orders. It can all get a bit tedious once you get over the initial shock. At the beginning of the book you can relate to the central character, this does drift off in the middle but comes back together at the end.
Not for the easily offended, interesting but not the best thing I've read recently.
I opened it up in my local bookshop and couldn't believe what I was reading! Not that I've lived a sheltered life, just merely not read that kind of language in a book before. So beware, it's not the sort of thing you'd want your kid to get hold of!
The subject matter, a S&M relationship, is still quite taboo in todays society which may entice you to read it, to get a view on something that people don't tend to talk about. This book is quite honest in it's description, not dressing it up or down or making it glamourous in any way.
I found it hard to understand, not partaking in such an activity, why anyone would want to do this, including the central character who has a successful career and is married with a child, the latter being the only thing that makes her feel guilty for messing about.
All in all, the book follows day by day as she becomes more dependant and reliant on his orders. It can all get a bit tedious once you get over the initial shock. At the beginning of the book you can relate to the central character, this does drift off in the middle but comes back together at the end.
Not for the easily offended, interesting but not the best thing I've read recently.
Format:Paperback
This really isn't very good at all. It was not completely without merit, the final chapter successfully threw the preceding chapters into context and this showed ability in storytelling that was not apparent before reading that chapter. The story itself followed the trajectory of Venus in Furs by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, but the quality of the writing in 19th century classic far outstrips that of Blau's which has all the sophistication of a child's. This is the inherent failure of the book, the language is that of a more erotic novel, but it does not titillate like an erotic novel. Similarly, the langue is not sophisticated enough for it to compare with a novel like Venus in Furs and so Blau's book falls into a no-man's-land and will not appeal to either camp.
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