- Paperback: 272 pages
- Publisher: Plume; later printing edition (Aug 1 1991)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0452266564
- ISBN-13: 978-0452266568
- Product Dimensions: 20.3 x 11.9 x 2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 68 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (182 customer reviews)
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- #15 in Books > Romance > Erotica > Adult Fiction
- #28 in Books > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Fantasy > Dark
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* "One of the most wonderful, erotic, sensual books ever written" - Sting on INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE. *"a literary odyssey into a world of forbidden lust...the same kind of skillful writing that brought respectability into the works of Henry Miller, Anais Nin and D.H. Lawrence" - UPI * "One of the most wonderful, erotic, sensual books ever written" - Sting on INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE. *"a literary odyssey into a world of forbidden lust...the same kind of skillful writing that brought respectability into the works of Henry Miller, Anais Nin and D.H. Lawrence" - UPI
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Rice writing as A. N. Roquelaure.
In the traditional folk tale "Sleeping Beauty," the spell cast upon the lovely young princess and everyone in her castle can only be broken by the kiss of a Prince. Anne Rice's retelling of the Beauty story probes the unspoken implications of this lush, suggestive tale by exploring its undeniable connection to sexual desire.
In the traditional folk tale "Sleeping Beauty," the spell cast upon the lovely young princess and everyone in her castle can only be broken by the kiss of a Prince. Anne Rice's retelling of the Beauty story probes the unspoken implications of this lush, suggestive tale by exploring its undeniable connection to sexual desire.
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THE PRINCE had all his young life known the story of Sleeping Beauty, cursed to sleep for a hundred years, with her parents, the King and Queen, and all of the Court, after pricking her finger on a spindle. Read the first page
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THE PRINCE had all his young life known the story of Sleeping Beauty, cursed to sleep for a hundred years, with her parents, the King and Queen, and all of the Court, after pricking her finger on a spindle. Read the first page
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Okay with a lot of repetition,
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This review is from: The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty (Paperback)
The Claiming Of Sleeping Beauty by Anne Rice (writing as A.N. Roquelaure) is the first of the Sleeping Beauty trilogy. I found that there was much repetition in the descriptions and the events that occurred - apparently the characters noticed the same thing about different characters, and the similar problems were inflicted on the characters. Thus, I grew tired of reading because of this. I cannot even imagine how much repetition the second and third book will have.This is a book that only adults should attempt to read. A lot of the time I was very shocked at what I was reading; I guess I am not used to this genre. After sleeping for one-hundred years, Beauty is awakened by the Prince after he has sexual intercourse with her without consent. Beauty's entire kingdom awakens and she is consistently reminded by the Prince that the curse was lifted and her kingdom was restored because of him. Thus, the Prince has attained right to take her with him to his kingdom. Beauty is taken to the Prince's kingdom naked, and she becomes slave there. She discovers that she is not the only naked slave there; there are so many more, and all of the slaves are princes and princesses from surrounding kingdoms that were offered to the Queen - the Prince's mother - as a tribute. In the palace, the slaves are trained to become submissive and obedient. Everyone, even those in the lowliest ranks are above the slaves. The slaves are spanked, displayed publically, must crawl at times, kiss people's feet, and entertain their masters. Will Beauty adjust to this place where pain and pleasure are one and the same? Will she be able to submit and become an obedient slave to please the Prince? Or will Beauty be sent to the village along with the other princes and princesses that were unable to please their masters? 2.5/5
4.0 out of 5 stars
Sleeping Beauty meets the Prince,
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This review is from: The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty (Paperback)
Anne Rice's rewriting of Sleeping Beauty is absolutely remarkable. The Prince that claims her takes her away for her to become a sexual toy in the court of some tyrannical Queen. She goes through an initiation that leads her into understanding and feeling that subservience and total submission is the source of absolute slavery to pleasure. Her sexual functioning is made so prominent in her life that it becomes dominant in her bodily functioning. And this sexual desire that becomes permanent is triggered by anything and particularly by humiliation, punishment, abasement, domination, etc. This sexual excitement is also made dependent on all other senses, particularly her sight. She just needs to see someone or something that is desirable for her sexual circuits to start flowing with desire and fluids, and then some punishment or humiliation is inflating this desire even more. She becomes the slave of it and can only fulfill its course. Yet this training of princes and princesses by other nobles does not aim at dominating the intellect of these young people. And in this intellect the rebellious element can become more powerful than their subservience. And in their psyche love can become stronger than sexual drive. Then Beauty is led into rebellion and thrown down into a punishing experience out of the court, in the village next to the castle. Sexual enhancement, if it does not go along with the breaking of the intellect and the negation of all sentiments and passions, can only lead to that rebellion.Dr Jacques COULARDEAU
1.0 out of 5 stars
STOP!!!,
This review is from: The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty (Paperback)
Seriously, don't dare click the buy button! I love to read good, well-written eroctica and this was not it. As the other reviewers say, it's just boring. The writing is so non-descriptive ( other than the many colors a rear end can turn). This is an excellent premise gone terribly wrong. It's just a rehash from chapter to chapter of one long spanking. I guess that if you only want that in your erotic collection then this might be of interest. I prefer to mix mine up a little...
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