A Young Girl's Crimes (Uncensored And Uncut) [Paperback]

David Rehak (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 5, 2008

Flora wants to be a normal teenager. But her wealthy and domineering father won't let her. He wants to keep her locked up in his mansion forever. Her anger and rebellion grow. The sexually cruel and evil ideas of the Marquis de Sade feed the anger and rebellion, which turn to murder and perversion. She is reaching out for love, every kind of love. But it's one disappointment after another. Rejection. Finally, she turns to God and finds spiritual guidance ... but can she escape her dark past? This new revised and improved version of "A Young Girl's Crimes" is uncensored and uncut. Originally published in 2002, its first publisher had his editors make various cuts in the text to content which they deemed offensive. Because he was eager to publish, the author agreed to these changes at the time, against his better judgment. These parts have been faithfully restored and the full and complete version of the book is here re-published for the first time. Bargain-priced.

Editorial Reviews

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...so gripping, for long spaces of time one hardly knows that one is reading. You're just absorbed in it. -- Curled Up With A Good Book

Before the release of Crippled Dreams many were still raving and debating about David Rehak's first book A Young Girl's Crimes which was powerful and controversial -- the washingtonpost.com

I think David Rehak may be the best of the new generation of budding novelists. Time will tell. He is yet to be discovered. But his debut effort is truly impressive. -- Wordy Bird Magazine

Mr. Rehak has penned a suspense-filled novel that will keep a reader on edge and unable to stop until the surprising end. -- BookStar Review

From the Publisher

When a lonely and isolated girl named Flora starts to experiment with taboos, she finds herself opening up to a whole new forbidden world that tells her there are no rules. Flora represents teenage moral anarchy that is borne of the fact that she has never been shown real love. Thus, she tries to find satisfaction in hidden desires and deadly sins to fill the void of lovelessness and angry hate. Ultimately it is the bad consequences of her actions that lead her to the light, lead her to the saving grace of divine and eternal love.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 132 pages
• Publisher: CreateSpace (May 5, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1438215851
• ISBN-13: 978-1438215853
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,417,594 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars good book! two thumbs up!!, September 20, 2008

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Quinton Darr - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Young Girl's Crimes (Uncensored And Uncut) (Paperback)

This is the book your grandma wouldn't want you to read. Shocking and insightful. This uncut version is also a bit better.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The rebel emo girl of the 1950's, November 13, 2008

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IanStokes bedbuddy (my bedroom) - See all my reviews

This review is from: A Young Girl's Crimes (Uncensored And Uncut) (Paperback)

Don't be too hard on him, Rehak first wrote this whacky novella as a precocious teen, published in first-year university, and even a prodigy is not perfect. For a first book and for the type of bare bones style book it tries to be this is not a bad book even with its perceived flaws. Rather this than the over-detailed over-long boring pretentious unreadable drivel we sometimes get. Rehak knows how to tell a lurid super-gripping story in a quick and easy flowing style that cuts through unnecessary padding and whatever else it may do never bores. I thought the hokey elements were hilarious, intended or not. With some more decent exposure, this would be a cult classic with the Flora Darbys of the world. I'm not sure what screwed-up, angry, depressed teenagers looking for love and acceptance were called in the 1950s but my friend Alice calls the modern-day equivalent EMO.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars WHAT IS NORMAL? Here's the story of pervy baddie Flora Darby becoming churchy goodie, November 13, 2008

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alice_rowler (Akron, Ohio) - See all my reviews

This review is from: A Young Girl's Crimes (Uncensored And Uncut) (Paperback)

Twisted plot and characters with scary twists and turns. Dialogue is fine for the '50s, didn't spot any neologisms. Pacing is not slow but very VERY fast-paced (maybe too fast) and writing style is extremely clear and simple (too simple) but, strangely, engaging. The kind of book that even non-avid readers could find especially entertaining since it's such an easy and straightforward read for the shorter attention span. An interesting experiment in literary minimalism.

I think I understand its unique appeal, non-literary commercial fiction appeal, both in style and sensationalism. Well worth reading, when you're in the mood for this kind of thing. I felt I "knew" Flora, but I wish the author had gone deeper into her thought processes. After I recover from the shock I received from this crazy little story and I'm in the right mood for an easy breezy read that pervs me out or touches my heart (CRIPPLED DREAMS), I'll surely go with this author again- but with that in mind, a longer more fleshed out book next time please. But this is I think a good one to start with.