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100 Strokes of the Brush Before Bed by Melissa Panarello
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100 Strokes of the Brush Before Bed

by Melissa Panarello

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Something must have been lost in translation... I enjoyed a few pages out of the 170 or so; I did not enjoy the book as a whole for a number of reasons: 1) the writing was not especially erotic; 2) the supposedly naive voice changed to an experienced voice describing one of the SM events that ruined the suspension of disbelief that the book was an unedited diary; which leads to 3) the book only convinces as a biographical fiction of a mundane series of adolescent sexual encounters -- and therefore is just one among thousands of other such fluff. ( )
psybre | Aug 28, 2008 | 1 vote
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Hirmien | Jul 14, 2008 |  
Stupidly, I fell for the hype. This book is touted as being "erotic" but due to the girl's age, its really nothing more than the exploitation of child abuse and the pedophiles she fell into the arms of. I found this to be very disturbing. ( )
peridoteyes | Mar 20, 2008 |  
I picked this book up from a bargain table, only it's spine visible. I know it's wrong to judge a book by its cover, but I like to think that a first attraction to a title is always something to be explored. And it was a bargain. Part way through the book, I started to question whether it was worth my time to finish it. The diary format made it very disjointed and the thoughts even more scattered. But it was such a quick read that I was to the end before I knew it. The ending was very hopeful, promising, although a little to brief of a turn. ( )
mcmollie | Feb 24, 2008 |  
I'd heard so much about this book before reading it that perhaps my expectations were too high to begin with. The sex scenes seemed to me to be far more gratuitous than cathartic, and the character's self-examination didn't ever seem to actually get anywhere. The entire book was less cohesive than I'd hoped for, and from erotica, I expect something a bit racier; this book failed to meet my expectations from both a literary standpoint and an erotic one. ( )
aglaia531 | Dec 10, 2007 |  
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No inverno europeu de 2002, longe dos olhos da mãe e do pai, a jovem italiana Melissa Panarello começou a escrever um diário em que relatava, sem pudores e meias palavras, as precoces e variadas experiências sexuais vividas por uma colegial entre os 15 e os 16 anos. A história de Melissa começa quando ela perde a virgindade aos 15 anos de idade. A descoberta de um mundo novo e diferente, o desejo de amar e se sentir amada e a ilusão de encontrar este sentimento através do sexo. É esse o ponto de partida para um relato que mistura de forma provocadora ficção e realidade, num vasto e surpreendente rito de iniciação sexual. Durante dois anos a protagonista do livro experimenta as mais diferentes práticas sexuais, como se desejasse, através delas, transcender o corpo. Sexo grupal com desconhecidos, orgias regadas a drogas, sadomasoquismo, homossexualismo: nada detém sua curiosidade, mas seu prazer é tingido de repulsa e insegurança. Em sua busca desenfreada, Melissa acaba caindo em um túnel escuro de humilhação e dor, onde se arrisca a perder para sempre aquilo que tem de mais precioso: ela mesma. Antes de dormir, Melissa escova cem vezes os longos cabelos, num ritual de purificação quase infantil que constitui, para o leitor, o único lembrete de que se trata, afinal, de uma menina.
Um dos motivos que transformaram "Cem Escovadas Antes de Ir para a Cama" em sensação literária foi a tênue fronteira entre autora e personagem. Além de compartilhar com sua protagonista o nome, Melissa, a jovem autora afirma ter vivido todas as experiências narradas, trocando apenas nomes e datas. Características que fazem de seu relato uma visão da adolescência em um país onde o sexo ainda é cercado de tabus, e um retrato revelador da sexualidade neste começo do século 21.

Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0802117813, Paperback)

An instant blockbuster in Italy where it has sold over 700,000 copies, and now an international literary phenomenon, 100 Strokes of the Brush Before Bed is the fictionalized memoir of Melissa P., a Sicilian teenager whose quest for love rapidly devolves into a shocking journey of sexual discovery.

Melissa begins her diary a virgin, but a stormy affair at the age of fourteen leads her to regard sex as a means of self-discovery, and for the next two years she plunges into a succession of encounters with various partners, male and female, her age and much older, some met through schoolmates, others through newspaper ads and Internet chat rooms. In graphic detail she describes her entry into a Dante-esque underworld of eroticism, where she willingly participates in group sex and sadomasochism, as well as casual pickups. Melissa's secret life is concealed from family and friends, revealed only in her diary entries.

Told with disarming candor, Melissa P.'s bittersweet tour of extreme desires is as poignant as it is titillating. One Hundred Strokes of the Brush Before Bed is a stunning erotic debut, a Story of O for our times.

(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:18 -0400)

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