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Title: Domina : The Sextopians by Gloria G. Brame ISBN: 1-58112-878-9 Publisher: Dissertation.com Pub. Date: 09 July, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (9 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: "Domina" by Dr. Gloria Brame -- Class "A" Book
Comment: Thank you Dr Brame for such a wonderful novel!
I found the book "Domina" for be very erotic, and highly intense. This was one book I picked up and couldn't put down until I finished reading it, more than once, I might add.
I am so forward to the sequel and learning even more from your all of your writings.
I have been and will continue to recommend your novel and your many other works.
Many thanks to you, Dr. Brame!!
Rating: 2
Summary: Clueless in the Midwest
Comment: There seems to be a little bit of everything here for everyone into or curious about BDSM. But forget about the sexually graphic content; you like it or you don't. What of this work as literature or cultural commentary? If you knew the liberating non-fiction works of Ms Brame previously, you like I might have expected some sort of literary manifesto from this author. Instead it was just a long, sometimes tediously titillating narrative of what goes on in such places, albeit an ideal one, with unrelenting rudeness towards the pathetic anti-hero as the central focus. The ending was surprising, or more properly, unexpected, because it didn't really arise organically out of the groundwork laid out by the novel. I was troubled by the lack of ethics implied by the final resolution. All that venom directed to the callow initiate Arden seemed overly harsh and vindictive. But Arden, unlike Domina's secret lost love alluded to, didn't "lack courage" to face Domina's overbearing need to control and humiliate her lovers. Why is she transferring all that bitter disappointment onto the poor lad? Arden is a good-sport after all. Domina's disclosure that her venomous little Christmas missive to him was written a month earlier makes her final stance especially damning. It was premeditated face saving, not passionate anger over a great loss. I must be listed among the clueless as well, because I found nothing liberating about this novel.
Rating: 1
Summary: Not worth the money or the time.
Comment: A very cold and unreadable book by an author who should know better. None of the characters are likable and you don't care what happens to them which violates the first rule of writing: Make your readers care about your characters.
The first chapter sets the bar very low in style and characterization and the rest of the following chapters don't clear the hurdle set. Too many of the characters ruin the clumsy story line and obscure whatever mood that is trying to be created. The flow of the book is erratic and fails to envelope the reader in the world it has created. A good editor would have spotted this and sent it back for another rewrite. One does shudder to think that this book was actually rewritten a couple of times and is not the first draft of the novel. Apparently the erotica market is devoid of editors or filled with third rate ones who are only interested in the quick buck.
Only the most desperate bdsm fantasist or sychophant will appreciate this novel. It isn't very erotic and often times it is dull. If I was a first time reader of this type of subject, I would never read the genre again. Fortunately there are better writers whose works elevate the genre. If Ms Brame wishes to inflict more pain on readers, she should go ahead with her plans to produce a sequel.
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Title: Slave to Success by Kimberley Raines ISBN: 0352336870 Publisher: Virgin Publishing Pub. Date: June, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: My Darling Dominatrix by Grant Antrews ISBN: 1563335662 Publisher: Masquerade Books Pub. Date: August, 1997 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: Darkest Fantasies by Chimera Publishing, Kimberley Raines ISBN: 1901388522 Publisher: Chimera Publishing Pub. Date: 15 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: The Household by Anna J. Lightfoot, Anna J Lightfoot ISBN: 1893006336 Publisher: Unbound Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Breaking the Girl by Kim Corum ISBN: 1932420053 Publisher: New Traditions Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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