The Adventures of Holly White
and the Incredible Sex Machine
by Krissy Kneen
porn, fantasy
copyright 2015
read in February 2016
rated 6/10: read to pass the time
The state library has identified this book as "science fiction". I guess that no librarian read it.
The Adventures is a special sort of fantasy porn.
Imagine that you enjoy watching Olympic boxing. You even think, I'd like to try that, someday, even at the risk of a black eye. Then you read a book about thugs using nail-studded boxing gloves to bash innocent victims. The book includes graphic descriptions of the results of the vicious bashings on the helpless victims. Now, when you think of boxing, you are haunted by the images of brutalised victims of spiked boxing gloves.
The Adventures does that to thoughts of sex.
Sex in this book is so brutal, so over the top, so viciously fantasised -- it spoils the thought of sex.
Yes, it's arousing. Sex is arousing. Then it becomes extreme. Unreal. Boring, even -- because it is so far removed from any realistic expectations of sex. (My apologies if this does not apply to your own expectations. I write from my own reality.) Towards the end of the book the sex is off-putting.
Each chapter is named for a famous book of sex. Books that are historically famous but that may be hard to find in your local library. I checked the Wikipedia plot summaries but could not see a direct correlation between plot and chapter heading. They do seem to be books that I would enjoy -- if I had enjoyed the extreme sex of The Adventures.
There is mention of "aliens". Perhaps that explains the "science fiction" label ? As far as I can tell, the aliens are three giant flying vaginas. They do absolutely nothing -- until summoned by the heroine in her final discovery of her super powers.
There is also a central theme of "orgone" collection. Perhaps that's the "science fiction" ? Though orgone itself seems to have come and gone with the philosophers stone and cold fusion. Still, a pseudoscience is as good as real science for science fiction :-)
The book is porn, with some social satire... well, social stereotyping, really. The porn is close to fantasy... perhaps as close as la la land. The science fiction edges into fantasy. The plot is ludicrous.
Perhaps this is a book with literary pretensions ? Perhaps.
Read it and enjoy it. Get aroused. But I suggest that you withdraw, well before the climax.
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