what a retard.....what i meant to say was.....


I'm blaming the next thread on you azure. Just so when I get all those angry orgnotes saying to stop posting my pictures, I will have someone to put the blame on.....

Innocents by Cathy Coote

Was Lolita utterly cunning and "Humbert the innocent" seduced? In Australian writer Cootes provocative variation on a theme tackled many times before, the answer is a disturbing and (nearly) unequivocal yes. Cootes debut (written when she was 19) details a twisted love affair between a teenage student and teacher from the nymphets point of view. The story is written as a letter from the nameless, orphaned 16-year-old Catholic schoolgirl to her 34-year-old lover reviewing their affair and its consequences. The narrator, raised competently, albeit coldly, by her aunt and uncle, maintains a wholesome facade, behind which lies a devious imagination and utterly jaded view of human relations. With newly awakened sexual powers, she casts a spell over her defenseless unnamed teacher. I held all the aces¢youth, beauty and cuteness. The narrator becomes increasingly calculating as she tangles him in her web of sexual manipulation. I had thought there could be no pleasure more exquisite than that of seducing a shy man. But this debauching of a decent one was more compelling than anything I had ever experienced. The girls high-serious tone and overwrought language (Oh how can I begin to show you the contours of my perversion? Your exploration destroyed these lands, darling), while plausibly that of a teenager, becomes grating nonetheless, but Cootes brazen novel never falls into precocity or melodrama. The rejection of sentimentality and the carefully calibrated knowingness make this more than just another Nabokov knockoff, and mark Coote as a young writer to watch.

Written when Cathy Coote was nineteen, Innocents is a taut, wickedly clever descent into the anatomy of an obsession, the debut of a precociously assured and provocative young literary voice. Forcing someone vulnerable and naive into a sexual relationship to satisfy a twisted desire is perverted, even evil. But when the perpetrator is a sixteen-year-old schoolgirl, is she culpable? And if the victim is her thirty-four-year-old teacher, shouldn't he have known better? When the nameless young narrator of Innocents decides to seduce her teacher, she immediately realizes that the power of her sexuality is greater than she ever imagined. She leaves the aunt and uncle who are her guardians and moves in with her teacher; together, they quickly embark on a journey into their darkest desires. Unforgettable, disturbing, and morally complex, Innocents permanently unsettles our notions of innocence, experience, and power, and suggests that we all are culpable. "Compelling stuff, sexy and disturbingly frank.... A brilliant debut." -- Meg Stewart, The Bulletin

Thin Skin by Emma Forrest

From Publishers Weekly
"Cinema was nurture as well as nature. I saw things on the screen and saw my future." Pithy though it may be, that barely begins to capture the self-destructive, narcissistic personality of Ruby, the neurotic actress whose downward spiral is the subject of Forrest's second novel, after Namedropper. Forrest paints 20-year-old Ruby as an over-the-top, sexpot actress who bounces from boyfriend to boyfriend and from one film project to the next. Her talents include a flair for enticing men with her beauty and frustrating agents and directors with her bad-girl antics (her agent goes ballistic when she gets new tattoos that make her ineligible for period costume dramas). The cast of boyfriends includes the gorgeous Aslan, who refuses to touch Ruby after their first sexual encounter because he believes she is an evil spirit. The one she's really looking for is super-sexy Liev, a friend of her father's who has eluded her since she first met him at age 12, and has become an obsession for her. The closest thing to a genuine subplot in this narrowly focused novel is an incident in which Ruby befriends the wife of one of the men she has seduced and the two women proceed to engage in mutual psychoanalysis. The ending, which includes a suicide attempt, is disappointingly familiar. Ruby's commentary on Hollywood, Manhattan, the celebrity scene and the perils of being a gorgeous, insecure actress can be quite witty, but Forrest also asks us to take Ruby's woes seriously, something most readers will find hard to do. FYI: Brad Pitt's production company, Bloc, has bought Forrest's first screenplay, also called Thin Skin.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Description:

From the author dubbed "a literary Lolita" by Vanity Fair comes the perfect portrait of a young actress caught in a downward spiral of self-destruction. Edgy and funny at the same time, Thin Skin provides a realistic glimpse into the dark and inviting world of fame from the writer who penned Namedropper when she was just twenty-one.

jerseykrs said:

Awww... you gettin' nasty orgnotes? Eh, go ahead, blame me. I'd even join ya, but the only recent picture I have is one my son took, which really doesn't show much of me because it's blurry. Hey, even better! Think I'll dash on over to your thread!

theVelvetRoper said:

I've seen this there and picked it up but never did buy it. I think I'll add it as well.

Thankfully, I should not be bored for the next few weeks! Thanks, all!

Hi Heather.



http://www.amazon.com/gp/...eader-page

Freespirit said:

Hi...

Hmmm... thanks.

The Witching Hour

Anne Rice

Excellent read!

AzureStarr said:

Try it. Thich Nhat Hanh has a style of writing that is (okay, this is not a word I ever use, but it's just so true this time) delightful. I can't explain it. He has this way of writing about Buddhist wisdom in a way that feels like your best friend in the world, who cares about you more than anything and has a great sense of humor to boot, is talking directly to you in a voice that is at the same time eloquent, conversational and understandable.

He's the shit.

Muse2NOPharaoh said:

Anne Rice:
Servant of the Bones
Blackwood Farm

Muse2NOPharaoh said:

Read it... gotta love Anne Rice!

Thanks...

FunkMistress said:

I'm not sure why, but your post made me giggle... so, thank you! Maybe it's the whole, "He's the shit" part that did it for me.

If you like fantasy there is Robin Hobb's books and then 'the Saga of Ice and Fire' by George R.R. Martin. I really loved those.

Kayleigh said:

Thank you. I'm not much of a fantasy reader, but my son is! Gonna check those out and see if they're anything he could read.

AzureStarr said:

If you like to see the Martin's homepage it's here :

http://www.georgerrmartin.com/

I got totally hooked on his books, they were marvellous and now I'm waiting for the next parts to be published

Kayleigh said:

Thanks! The only bad part about getting hooked on a certain author's books is that it nearly kills you waiting for their next book to be published!

AzureStarr said:

Yes, that's really bad. Especially as I have read quite a lot of fantasy and there isn't many I'd buy for myself (I work in a library)

Kayleigh said:

I wouldn't get much work done with that job!

The current issue of rolling stone has alot of great articles on Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, the guy from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.....

he was an incredibly interesting figure

jerseykrs said:

Wanna send me your copy?

AzureStarr said:

Can I fed ex myself also?

jerseykrs said:

Of course. Keep in mind that once shipped, whatever arrives at my door is mine to keep.

AzureStarr said:

Well, I rather like the magazine, so we'll keep that here.....

jerseykrs said:

I jacked your thread with my silly aggressive flirting. Sorry. Back to the subject at hand.....

AzureStarr said:

Oh, you get used to it

jerseykrs said:

Jacked... hand... aggressive...

Don't apologize and it's never silly. 'Tis okay.

AzureStarr said:

i think that was a green light ya'll!!!

jerseykrs said:

It seems I've run out of replies today. Anyway... I want pictures!

Read the Davinci Code...

Don't come in here talking books after you leave us hanging for months and months and then expect us all to fall in line...



Azure's back! Lleena bkw and Azure!!!!



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