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House of Pain (Velvet) (Paperback)

by Pan Pantziarka (Author)
3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)


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When a young streetwalker is picked up by an enigmatic older woman, she finds herself launched on an odyssey of pleasure and pain beyond measure. House of Pain is scorched earth erotica, an unprecedented glimpse of living Hell, the torments and raptures of a young woman abandoned to the throes of rage, violence and cruelty which feed the sexual impulse. Churches, hospitals, courtrooms, all become mere facets of the same unyielding edifice, a bedlam of desire and flesh in flame beneath the cold black sun of her own unlimited yearnings.

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  • Paperback: 192 pages
  • Publisher: The Tears Corporation/Creation (September 1995)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1871592577
  • ISBN-13: 978-1871592573
  • Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.3 x 0.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 7 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,228,614 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A masterpiece which thrills by its brutality, September 29, 1999
The description of this novel as `extreme` is no exaggeration- something in it is sure to repel even the most hardened devotees of this kind of literature. But it is elegantly written, and many of the descriptions can only be described as delicious. Unremittingly cruel and savage, the graphically detailed sufferings of the victims and the response of their torturers make this a psychological as well as an erotic masterpiece. It will confirm one way or the other whether in your heart you have a taste for these things!
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A black masterpiece, April 28, 1999
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This novel is obscene, blasphemous, brutal, scatological and beautifully written. Its dedication to a relative who died of cancer at age 29, explains the narrator's nihilistic, foul-mouthed rage. Andres Serrano's photographic couplings of crucifixes and bodily fluids are light humor compared to the rites of these Sisters of Sadism. Pantziarka has crafted a seductively repulsive and important work. _House of Pain,s_literary quality denies the usual, easy dismissal of pornography on aesthetic grounds: "Oh,that's such trash." This is good art and the power of its anguish cannot be denied. If you have the stomach for it, this uncompromising journey through the dark side is a black masterpiece
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars A very extreme novel, for the most hard core of s&M'rs., September 28, 1997
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This book is definately for extreme readers only. The scenes are graphic and not for those with weak stomachs. I really liked the first 3rd of the book, but as the novel progressed, it lost a story line and just jumped from scene to scene. The acts became more and more vile with consumption of EVERY body excretion appearing as the only connection between the scenes. I was rather disgusted as i am not into brown and yellow sex, but those who are would like this book. The author is very descriptive, but her obvious nihilistic beliefs penetrate every orfice of this novel and the reader is left with only despair and a turned stomach. The submissive parts were rather good though, and the scenereos, though unbelieveable were exciting at times.
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