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The Scorpion's Sweet Venom: The Diary of a Brazilian Call Girl

5 star:		(3)
4 star:		(2)
3 star:		(3)
2 star:		(4)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

Bruna Surfistinha, AKA Rachel Pacheco, has written a 167 page very explicit memoir of her days as a teenage prostitute. It is a quick read and her stories do indeed leave little to the imagination. The author details how she ran away from home at age 17 after a falling out with her parents, specifically her father. She reportedly retired from the 'world's oldest profession' at age 21 and met her current BF while pacticing her trade...

She became known as Bruna the Surfer Girl via her online blog, which is still available. Reportedly she wants to study psycholgy -- interesting choice. She juxtaposes writing about life with her parents before she ran away and her adventures as a prostitute after running away...at least for the first half of the book. The second half is devoted to her various sexual adventures, and there have been many as one might imagine. Some of the stories are certainly 'peculiar,' some are rather funny, and some are just sad.

She includes an appendix entitled "Bruna's 15 Commandments" which certainly are intersting...she also has another appendix on "Girl's Tips On How to Spice Up Your Sex Life" which are fairly accurate (for the most part) in my own opinion.

I would concur with the other review in that the writing does leave something to be desired, or at least the translation does...yes, the book can be titillating though there are plenty of books out there to satisfy that need...it is a quick, fun read if this is what you are seeking (if very explicit writing about a lot of non-traditional sexual behaviors/acts is not your thing, then you probably want to skip this one). On the other hand, if you enjoy erotic memoirs, this one is worth a read...and you might want to check out her ongoing blog as well.

I think the Critics are Writing Too Harsh of Reviews. The Book is An Easy Read and Keeps you Entertained. It Gives Curious People the Insite to Prostitution and Satisfies Curiousity. I Enjoyed It and My Boyfriend is Finally Interested in Reading a Book Finally (after I read him a few pages of Bruna's Story). Book Definently Turns You On.

It Take Courage to do what She Did and to Share Your Life of Prostitution with Millions of Others. I'm Happy for Her and I Hope She Does Well.

I bought this book trying to gain insight on why a Brazilian "middle-class" person would chose "the life" as Bruna had. Well, it boiled down to that familiar theme, (1)Independence and (2)Money. It was her way to "get it," so she did. I do believe that she has been extremely lucky on how her life turned out. I do hope her dreams come true.

On the book itself, I would have preferred it that it would have spanned the time from the beginning to the present, instead of using the 'flash-back' method. For me, it proved a train-of-thought-breaking distraction. It was an extremely easy read (2 days). Perhaps, some will find Bruna's tips and 'commandments' useful (at the back of the book).

It wasn't the best book I've ever read, but I did feel it was one person's honest accounting of their life to this point! I wish Bruna good luck! My rating: 3 stars!

I praise the book, and what it's trying to do but I thought it to be one dimensional, and without any debth. She spoke of being a messed up kid even tho she had a good family, and then the rest of the book was just sex. She spoke of what she did but rarely of how she felt. I instead recommend Call Girl by Jeannette Angell.

Seventeen year old leaves bourgeois domesticity and hypocrisy for independent life and adventure. I'm not panning this book because of anything Ms. Pacheco/Surfistinha wrote but because its publisher (British) elected to translate it into British English and it's this same translation that is foisted upon American readers here. Constantly running into oddball, provincial, limey colloquialisms cuts this book off at the knees every time it tries to get started. Scenes that are supposed to be--and in the original text I suspect are--sexy, or explicit, or poignant or all three, fall as flat and flaccid as John Cleese and Michael Palin trying to reenact their long dead Monty Python parrot gag on SNL what-odd decades after they performed the original for BBC Television. The only thing more pathetic and futile than the forced laughter the audience tried to offer those two degraded, toothless anachronisms is the unfortunate reader trying to sludge his or her way through this morass of British mollases (or treacle?) to find the Brazilian girl buried beneath it.

Wow...simply wow! Very entertaining and funny and HOT! She is quite endearing and honest in this "tell-all" (more than tell-all)! Where is the movie?

This girl went through some things but she came out on top. Very interesting book

Here are the stats: inked up in three places, pierced in two, sex with 1,000 and counting,doped up for a while but now clean. Here is her story: unhappy home life albeit comfortable, a desire to be free, stumbling into the sex trade, marketing her story to the media and getting a measure of fame. Lessons? It is better for people to express their desires than to suppress them and she helps to do that. Some of the book reads like a warmed over issue of Cosmo, especially her handy sex tips at the end of the book. But at its core she is a hurt child who is still hurting. There is one passage---she is just bubbling along about this and that, and she tells of a client, an older man. Unpleasant, and who she tries to avoid. He rapes her and hits her. The writing loses its jaunty tone, its Cosmo sheen and she writes, after he leaves and she looks at the money: "we should pity men like that, not be angry with them. He was a man who'd never been loved---he himself told me, the first time, that he'd never even been engaged. I know why, He doesn't need to say a thing because you can see in his eyes how sad and alone he is. And his aggressiveness in bed is just a reflection of the fact that he's never been loved." For all the world. you'd think is she talking about herself.

Interesting insight into the path of a privileged girl into lady for sale. The author never address original saddness and glosses past sexual assault leaving you wondering what other untold stories remain.

This was good but it was not great. There is alot of sex talk in here and she gets very detailed at times. She did an ok job at writing this. I was kinda glad when it was over cause I really didn't feel like reading anymore.