The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty

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author : Anne Rice

* "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

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.

Reader's review:
I had heard about this erotic novel for some time and for some reason, never took the time to read it. Big mistake! It was that good for me. Of course, I am totally into these bdsm or s/d books and finding good ones has become increasingly hard. But, still, this sensual erotica tale is just what I was looking for. Anne Rice isn't just for fans of vampire fiction, i.e. "Interview w/the Vampire". This one is for any reader who WANTS sexy literature and wants to enter into another world. A very high recommend to anyone who wants to explore subjects of this nauture, along with Breaking the Girl and Eager to Please: Two Erotic Novels of Submission. -- Holy Flores

The most outstanding feature of this book is the fact that it rambles on for so long.
As is mentioned in so many reviews, only 1-2 pages even make reference to the Sleeping Beauty legend. Furthermore, not only is there no context for the kingdom in which the no-doubt syphilitic queen and prince reign, but the author only occasionally attempts to invoke the apparently mediaeval period in which the tale is set by throwing in words like "breeches," "ermine," or in one case a "pointed" damsel "hat."
I purchased this book for a book group meeting - I'm just glad that I finished it quickly enough to pass it around to everyone else in the group so as to minimize sales of this rubbish. -- Eward M. Reilly

I read many of the online reviews before ordering this book and I hoped that the reason the rating was so low was because of the reaction that more conservative people had to this book rather than the novel itself.

This book highlighted something that I think many readers of Anne Rice have seen - Rice has lowered herself to the standard of a formulaic writer. She is boring and bored with her work and it really shows. I, and many others, are becoming tired of her unneccessary first-person narratives inserted any time she thinks that her weak plot is about to crash and burn. Why should we suddenly care about the life of a secondary character? She doesn't give us any reason to. We are sick of her obsession with ribbon-wearing, dancing young girls and bored of New Orleans, Rio, and San Fransisco.

My biggest problem with the plot was the fact that Beauty is obsessed with Alexi for most of the book and then for some unknown reason she forgets him and jumps into the arms of someone we've never heard of before. For NO reason. And, this shift of plot happens six pages before the book ends! -- Olivia

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