Reviews for Violent silence

The average rating for Violent silence based on 2 reviews is 2.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2012-08-08 00:00:00 Dick Griebel A fine choice for newcomers to vintage erotica, Victorian Erotic Tales is a terrific sampler of the era's licentious works (but a word of warning: a modern female reader may be appalled by the behaviour of the men). Excerpts from Zola and Bram Stoker explore carnality through excess without genitalia, while various anonymous authors (such as the writer of 'The Cremorne') provide plenty of flower-and-flagpole frankness and some inspired coupling. Oddly enough I found Walter's 'My Secret Life' titillating even though its narrator is the sort of bounder any self-respecting female would run a mile from, while the more appealing Frank Harris in 'My Life and Loves' performed the remarkable feat of being touching, engaging, informative (the difficulties working underwater in the iron caissons of the Brooklyn Bridge) and still solidly erotic. By contrast Charles Devereaux' protestations of love toward his wife while being mindlessly (and conveniently) seduced by his 'Venus in India' failed to rouse much interest. The trick of making a likeable narrator out of a cad isn't a straightforward one. Like all collections there are choice pieces here alongside less engaging ones, but it's no trouble to flip past the less successful stories to find the gems. For me the greatest pleasures lay in the unusual language ('spending' for completing the act) and the sense of sneaking a peak into history and finding (lo and behold!) that in some ways it isn't greatly different to today. Meanwhile, if I'd been a Victorian lady wondering what to do when a young man tried to give me some pretty garters, I could have well done with reading this book.

Review # 2 was written on 2010-08-12 00:00:00 Josh Margolis This book was more offensive than erotic. Each and every story (at least until I quit reading in disgust) involved a man forcing himself on an unwilling female who, once she had been penetrated, decided she wanted the encounter after all. These are the types of stories where men get the idea that when women say "no", they really mean "yes," and are just saying "no" because they want the force and to be dominated. Scary idea and draws a fine line just to this side of rape.