Customer Reviews

White Stains

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White Stains was a sexy and intriguing book, but after reading Delta of Venus, I expected more from Anias Nin. I was also curious, since the author is listed as Anias Nin and friends, which authors were responsible for which works. The book fell short on the oh-so-critical graphic descriptions, leaving the reader to her own imagination. If my imagination cut it, I wouldn't buy the book.

I also felt that White Stains was directed to a male audience more than a female one, which disappointed me after Delta of Venus's abiguity. White Stains was also much less daring and provocative than Nin's other work.

This is certainly a quality work of erotica, just not up to snuff compared to Nin's other sexy tales.

If you love to read the prose style of popular books in the earlier part of the 20th Century, you'll especially enjoy being in the middle of these naughty scenarios with full on sexual and hot writing, yet find it quaint and old timey all at once. Delicious! Fun! Take a bubble bath and gobble it up, page after page.

Anais Nin's erotica is legendary. I heard rumours of it long before I ever got my hands on a copy of this difficult-to-find book. When I finally did, I found myself entranced--both by her words and those of her friends, who wrote and assembled these fierce and delicate works for a private collector. This is, simply put, a beautiful book--erotic and often blunt, but never caught in the common web of sexual guilt and shame. It's a stunning work, and well worth owning.

I expected more from this, I am a huge Nin fan and I felt that the erotic parts of this book let me down. Either add more sexy or change the genre.

I really loved Nin's Little Birds. So, I was happy to find this book for 99 cents. Hey, that's pretty cheap. The stories are not on par with Little Birds, but, Little Birds is really special. It's pretty hard to compare someone's best work with something that isn't their best work. Comparing these stories with modern erotic 'literature' would give it a much more favourable review.

However, the thing that really killed this book for me was the terrible navigation. These are short stories, but there is no navigation menu at all... no table of contents. No way to fast forward to your favourite story for a reread.

For quality of work, I give this thing four stars. For the formatting and lack of a TOC, I give it 2 stars. Thus, the overall is 3 stars.