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| 120 Days of Sodom (Arena Books) | 
 enlarge | Author: Marquis De Sade D.a.f.
Creator: Simone De Beauvoir
Publisher: Arrow Books Ltd
Category: Book
List Price: £15.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 62332
Media: Paperback
Edition: New edition
Pages: 800
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5 x 1.8
ISBN: 0099629607
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780099629603
ASIN: 0099629607
Publication Date: September 7, 1989
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 This book rocks November 24, 2000
11 out of 31 found this review helpful
What really lifts this book out of the ennui induced by most de Sades other available work (in the english speaking world anyway), is the sheer kick ass quality of its translation. No other title matches this Pythonesque level of word wielding hiliarity. Stylistically it is bang up to date. It's not sick nor is it erotic, it is however comedy at its most piquant. Thematically the book hasn't aged at all (again thanks in part to its superb translation), church and state up to their usual shenanigans. In short I split me arse laughing while reading it (and that was no thanks to Bum cleaver).
Read it for the right reasons! April 18, 2000
39 out of 44 found this review helpful
See a bishop, a nobleman, a lawyer and a banker getting up to their antics, which I would call murderous, except that it`s fiction. In real life, these types get up to REAL murderous things - but they won`t be found here. Instead, many will probably buy and read it for the wrong reasons. I would issue a warning that this is not Sade`s best work by a long shot and will teach you nothing about Sade as a man and thinker; only about his bitterness in prison. It is important to remember, if you buy this book, that it was Sade`s revulsion for atrocity and hypocrisy which prompted him to write this Absurdist saga. Recommended, but NOT as an introduction for one who is ignorant of Sade! For better intros, carry on down the list of works and check out FRANCINE DU PLESSIX GRAY and MAURICE LEVER. Or read: THE MYSTIFIED MAGISTRATE, CRIMES OF LOVE, or GOTHIC TALES. (And better still: LETTERS FROM PRISON) Anthony Walker.
Highly recommendable! December 21, 1999
4 out of 16 found this review helpful
This book was amazing - it got me through those lonely nights at the hospital I found the book really uplifting and most enjoyable. Admittedly, the 100th day was the longest and the hardest, but this work allowed me to carry on knowing that i wasn't alone.
 Horrifying to think that people can enjoy such torture December 5, 1999
3 out of 11 found this review helpful
I didn't finish this book and find it very difficult to rate it. At first I was interested in all the characters of the book and all their different sexual persausions. But the further I got into the book, the more extreme I found it. Towards the end was a summary of the torture that was inflicted upon the victims. I found it quite sick, that human beings could think of such horrors, never mind do them. So before reaching the end I actually burnt the book, which may seem extreme, but that is how I felt about it. So, not for the faint hearted!
 You can burn this book -- but read it first! March 2, 1999
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
De Sade paints a powerful picture of a deliberate and apparently regular descent into hell (or libertine heaven, depending on who you are in the book) by a selected cast of characters at an isolated chateau. All means of inflaming and fulfilling sexual appetite are explored, and then some more. Yes, this may be an allegory on power and corruption, but is equally an exploration of sexuality peppered with acts of free will when devoid of morality. Of course, such matters take some considerable toll on the participants, as the most chilling reckoning shows at the end of the book, where head counts are made of persons at the start and at the end of the sojourn.
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