"Meretricious Minx Maddens Men, Makes Mess, Meets Maker"
591387
NANA is still one of the great novels of world literature even if Zola's didactic approach becomes a little too overwhelming at times.  He was out to prove the effects of genetics and "bad breeding" on society, but created a stunning piece of literature.  NANA will astound you with its vivid depiction of the French upper classes of the 1850s and '60s and their links to the demi-monde of Paris.  It will keep you glued to the pages with its story of the continual rise of the beautiful, greedy and depraved Nana, the well-endowed blonde courtesan whom it seems, nobody could resist.  Lover of both sexes, wasteful of all her ill-gotten treasure, "instrumental" beyond all recovery, and careless breaker of hearts, Nana sucks the last penny out of all her lovers, but remains self-righteous and foolishly proud of her supposed "kindness".  Readers will be amazed at the graphic nature of the text with open descriptions of sex which were published in 1880.  You may contrast them with Anglo-Saxon attitudes at the same time.  ("Sister Carrie", Dreiser's rather mild novel, went unpublished for years because it merely showed a sexual relationship between unmarried people.)

Nana starts out as an "actress" who appears in the nude at a cheap theatre, rapidly rises thanks to sexual connections to the heights of courtesanship, leaving in her wake many a ruined marriage, many an impoverished beau.  She corrupts everyone along the way.  One setback---during which she works as a common prostitute and loves a brutal, stupid actor---is followed by an even more brilliant rise.  The end moralizes terrifically and is perhaps even unreal, perhaps more of an allegory of where corruption leads than a believable finale.  As the French Empire is about to crumble before newly-risen Germany in 1871, Nana shuffles off this mortal coil.  Zola wanted to decry the decadence of French society during the Empire.  He did it in brilliant fashion.  Nana is not a character whose day has disappeared.  Nowadays you can find her on Youtube, followed by TV shows, and launches of clothing lines.  We don't consider her so decadent now.  Any message here ?
4384169
We're barely into the second chapter when this creep sees a girl picking flowers, decides he is going to have her, sneaks up and pounces, sexually harasses her, and then thinks it's funny that she resists. Oh ha ha! Look at the funny way our couple met!  We are supposed to now believe that she is going to fall in love with this would-be rapist and he's going to reform somehow?  Vomitous.
350007
There was a chunk of plastic in my Kind Nuts and Spices bar. See picture. I notified Kind and their response has been less than inspiring.
2410695
Disgusting piece of merde.  I turned it off after half-hour of gut wrenching revulsion!  Nouveau pseudo-artsy sophisticate, not water soluble or digestible to a sane person!  Amateurish acting by dah down low crowd in NYC lower East Side warehouse apt re-dos.  Ugh, white man true degenerate~Kemosabe!
1085697
Leave it to Erwin C. Deitrich (producer of a dozen Jess Franco 70's sleaze flix, and I don't mean that in a bad way) to re-invent Nazisploitation by offering us an upbeat comedy version of an atrocious chapter in wartime history. In this 1973 cheesecake, the Nazis are of the Sargeant Schultz variety as they take on the Russians near the front. The frauleins are all cute Eurobabes who act like they're members of a select sorority at a summer camp or glee club, eager to 'please' anything or anyone for the Nazi Party, and I do mean party. They're all so happy, upbeat and obliging it's hysterical. It's like 'Springtime For Hitler' all over again. What makes it different is that there is no torture, rape, shower scenes, coersion or abhorent conditions here, all of the cliches are done away with - it's like 'Hogan's Heroes' with abundant nudity. One of my favorite lines (and their were a few) spoken by one of the babes to another, "If worse comes to worst, spread your legs, the regime always needs more soldiers". Cheezy, breezy and super sleazy, these frauleins spend more time in birthday suits than in uniform, and that 'suits' me fine...
662275
OK Brindle, what do you got here?..

...Not sure what I was expecting, but that was direct. I think we have a winner for the daily 'xtube awards,' no substance, just, you know, Sometimes you just want to F***.

At least she wrapped up the poor guys before the very public sexing. That was just...well, if you like depraved, here's your story. 3 random guys in 10 minutes. Mechanics and grammar were fine.

I think I'm still in shock.
8277
I was looking forward to a humorous book after hearing the NPR interview, but it was nothing but a exceedingly self absorbed woman using hormones as an excuse for making a mess out of her family & behaving poorly and selfishly.  She's trying to slough off her shortcomings on a biological process that many of the rest of us can get through without making a train wreck out of our lives.  It was nothing but several hundred pages of poor me, it's not my fault I'm in menopause.  Sorry,  your decisions, your fault, not funny, quilt whining, I certainly quilt reading.
3818183
This movie is low budget mess, but it is a perfect mess!  So bad that it is an instant classic!  I got it from RedBox expecting the usual straight to dvd crap they fill up their free slots with but this movie was something else.  From the first minute to the last!  I watched it two times in a row.  The first time I died at the comedy, the second time I actually got the story.  Madd voilent and ridiculous!  One scene he gets a knife thrown at his rear shoulder, turns around, kills the guy that thrown the knife but is too lazy to remove the knife from his back so he just goes on with his revenge journey with a knife in his back.  I highly recommend!
4239460
This "collection" was amusing at best. A lot of the stories seemed to be written by angry men about bitchy women, and were probably at best half-truths if not totally fictional. It is also questionable whether it is morally acceptable to "reprint" outright hate stories of women. One of the stories even had a picture attached that supposedly was the girl in the story: "author" mentions pictures were included only when they were  relevant, but I really don't see how it's relevant to post a picture of a real person for the purpose of hating her (it is irrelevant whether the story was true or whether the picture was actually the girl in the story; the picture was of a real person nonetheless).
3797962
I think the author has had very bad experiences with some of the women in her church and so she now thinks every woman is out to get her man and lay a sex trap.  This book was amusing and it's mercifully short but like someone else has previously said, it's not that bad in the church where people are constantly devising sex traps for eachother.  And what about the men?  She seems to place a ton of responsibility on the women alone.  Why am I not surprised?
893827
Mudslingers could have exploited heaps of done-to-death cliches:  young naive females tricked into bed by the music industry high brass, grassroots journalism in combat with high-circulation hackery, stereotypes of social class, nationality, and gender.  All those rubber stamp banalities seem outlined already by chapter two.  But instead of following the formulas, this splatter punk novella zigzags off the well-beaten track and spins a spectacularly absurdist plot of a bitter journalistic spat culminating in a gory, meticulously elabote deptiction of revenge served piping hot.  This offensive, tasteless, trashy piece of unputdownable writing by Hardrock Haven staffers Derric Miller and Mark Allen will soon also appear in an audio book format read by Ron Keel.
4757329
I can summerize the whole book in three sentences.
1)Women tend to not think about what they're doing - particularly when it comes to men.
2)Women tend to not stand up for themselves - particularly when it comes to men.
3) Women tend to blame others = particularly their men - for the problems caused by 1 & 2.
If these are a real problem for you this book make inspire you to get your act together. If not you'll probably find it somewhere between irrelevent and thoroughly irritating.
2277417
Here is another romance featuring best friends, both on the male and female side. Brr. This novel puts the ug in ugly as the sexual shenanigans start off with three couples (three male, three female) hooking up in the Mile-High Club on an airplane. Only two of them are acquainted: Orchid who is engaged to Jay. The engagement was actually so quick her friends are surprised and a little suspicious.

Things go swiftly downhill. The men are players (read: sluts) and proud of it. The three women are indiscreet, brash and sexually eager and, as always, the double standard is fully in play here. Alythia Duffy isn't as casual in her relationships with men but in this novel she doesnt act much better as she screws Gage Vincent only two days after meeting him. The friends aren't always that friendly to each other, either, as they argue, bicker, insult and attack each other. I was appalled to read that Alythia would condone an attack on one of her friends and furious when another friend attacked her.

The men are little better, treating the women as if they're interchangeable, casting them off with indifference or contempt. Gage wins some points for refusing to lump Alythia with her friends (and arguing that his homies need to behave better). But there were times when I didn't care for him either, what with his tendency to screw Alythia practically anywhere it took his fancy or use his strength to pounce on her. She always melted, even when she had work or a phone call, making me wonder how she maintained her Miss Goody Two Shoes reputation for so long.

The novel ends on a sour note with both Gage and Alythia possibly involved in an assault charge and wonder just how they're going to deal with their respective friends in the future. (Maybe by moving to Australia?)
278889
I have re-named this book "Act Like A Stepford Wife, Think Like A Brainwashed Co-dependent Puppet". It made me puke in my mouth just a little bit while I was reading it. If this is what I have to do to make a man happy, then I'm switching to women!
4119907
The lead character is a pathetic scum bag that is only concerned with himself. I hope that there really aren't people like him...and if there are I hope I never run into them. They (all three of the guys) give guys a band name. The women that put up with guys like this only have themselves to blame.
1508252
Got 7 chapters into this puerile, idiotic mess before my patience wore out.
If the author doesn't have an editor, he should seriously consider employing one.
If the author HAS an editor, he should fire him/her.
If poor pacing, pet adjectives, and incongruous comparisons in similies are not a concern for you, you'll still be disappointed by the gamer-esque  plot devices.
2847188
Oddly an uber-violent, ultra sexist delight.