Le Marquis du Sade

[B. Brian Brunzell]

I recently(about 4 months ago) finished The 120 Days of Sodom. It's easily the most sexually perverse book I've ever read, and from what I've heard, Justine is even more graphic, though I find that hard to believe.

 

Anyone else read anything by Sade?

[Nighthawk]

I've read 120 Days of Sodom and Juliette. Justine is on my list of things to read, I just haven't gotten around to it yet.

 

120 Days was indeed quite perverse. It was interesting the way it was structured. When I started reading, I expected a slow start and steady build of depravity, and in a way it was, but then it was in there pretty good right from the start.

 

Juliette was really kind of erotic in it's own way, almost touching sort of. I read it after 120 Days, so I was already introduced to Sade's ways, and it wasn't as distracting as it could have been. Didn't take things as far either, naturally.

[godthedog]

i've read chunks of '120 days of sodom'. more than anything, it seemed hilariously bad to me. didn't get anything in the way of substance out of it at all, just a bunch of "can you top this" stories of depravity that all seemed to end with, "and then we all ate our own shit."

 

i won't swear by that judgment, since i didn't read the whole thing. but what i read didn't give me the impression that reading any more of it would change my judgment of it.

 

EDIT: almost forgot--also fun for its repeated use of the phrase "let his fuck fly."

[Giuseppe Zangara]

Scenes of depravity mixed with the kind of flowery prose that went over big in England at the time. Notable for its historical value; kind of a chore to actually read.

[cynicalprofit]

I read a bit of 120 days and found it quite boring. Going into great detail about how clean a young boys butthole is just doesnt make for inspiring reading. It was shocking in its blunt preverseness, but just so droneing on and on with every little detail.

[thuganomics]

meh.

 

de Sade ain't that great. I prefer Anais Nin for my classical perversion.