Reviews for The 120 Days of Sodom and Other Writings

The average rating for The 120 Days of Sodom and Other Writings based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2010-04-20 00:00:00 William Melchior This is not one for everyone. I am not sure if it is intended for ANYONE actually. Here are the ravings of a lunatic. Explicit, alluring, majestic: Just a bunch of adjectives that contradict each other. A man imprisoned does his damn hardest to escape his jail by writing about what he knows & likes best: SEX. There is just sooo much detail upon detail that you know that in the 36 days it took the Marquis de Sade to concoct such a phantasmagoria of gore he rested not too much. This is marathon writing, and therefore it conveys much of someone's inherent (plus nasty) id though here, thankfully, the superego is likewise preserved & alive & kicking. The setup is this: 4 rich deviates plan and then have a 120-day orgy at Chateau Silling in the outskirts of Paris. They take young boys, young girls, their wives, four experienced whores & eight sodomites (picked because of... well, you can imagine [*cough* size *cough:]). The acts of sex become acts of impassioned violence (fecal matter, urine, blood, dismemberment, incest, torture devices all make full appearances!), and even the taboos you once thought as the most awful and heinous are here, & they are shattered at once by the ones that follow, as the list grows & grows to 600 total acts of "passion." This is one impressive catalog; one that dares you to keep going because you know very damn well that this will end SUPER BAD for the innocents. & there is always this lingering thought: Will the psychotic villains get away with it? Characters are interchangeable and the titular act is practiced everyday. There is wit and fantasy and some truly sadistic (.....DUH!!!!!) occurrences that make you sick to your stomach. (Like I said--this is not for everybody.) Call it: Sadomasochism's bible. This is true horror: that someone had the ingenuity to make an encyclopedic list of sexual terrors and deadly taboos. That a man such as the Marquis actually existed and made lovers embrace each other in love or in terror... This is a MUST READ & A TRUE EXPERIENCE. You simply won't find anything that comes anywhere near its baffling insanity and TRUE psychotic intelligence.

Review # 2 was written on 2012-08-19 00:00:00 Steve molsfsaff [shoots his load over a "little girl's" face? Or the bits where people urinate on each other? And those are the nicer parts. (hide spoiler)]